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We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2024

Paperback – December 2, 2025
Edited by Ryka Aoki & Series Editor Charles Payseur

The We’re Here series has become a cornerstone of modern queer speculative fiction—an annual celebration of boundary-breaking storytelling across fantasy, science fiction, horror, slipstream, and the wonderfully unclassifiable spaces in between. Since 2020, Neon Hemlock’s acclaimed anthology project has highlighted the most exceptional queer short fiction published each year, championing voices that expand, challenge, and illuminate the genre.

We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2024 continues this tradition with its fifth volume, curated by guest editor Ryka Aoki and series editor Charles Payseur. Together, they showcase a kaleidoscopic range of worlds and identities—stories of revolution and resistance, tenderness and terror, cosmic wonder and intimate revelation.

Within these pages, readers will encounter enchanted landscapes, futuristic rebellions, uncanny transformations, sharp-edged love stories, folktale reinventions, and speculative visions rooted in queer joy, longing, fear, desire, and defiance. Each story stands on its own; together, they form a vibrant snapshot of the queer imagination at its most powerful.

Featuring work by Phoebe Barton, Renan Bernardo, AnaMaria Curtis, David DeGraff, Louis Evans, Kelsey Hutton, Claire Jia-Wen, Angel Leal, Ann LeBlanc, Stephen M.A., Uchechukwu Nwaka, Suzan Palumbo, B. Pladek, M. R. Robinson, Denzel Xavier Scott, Jo Telle, Kristina Ten, Izzy Wasserstein, and John Wiswell.

For readers hungry for literary excellence, speculative daring, and unapologetically queer storytelling, this volume is an essential addition to any shelved universe.

Format: Paperback (perfect bound)