We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2025 edited by Bogi Takács & Charles Payseur (Pre-Order)


We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2025 edited by Bogi Takács & Charles Payseur (Pre-Order)
We’re Here 2025 is edited by Bogi Takács & series editor Charles Payseur of Quick Sip Reviews. An 8” x 5” book. ~275 pages. To be published Fall 2026.
We’re Here 2025 includes the following stories:
“Magical Girl Antifa War Machine” by Esther Alter (Escape Pod)
“Toothpaste Feelings” by Sharang Biswas (khōréō)
“Whisper Network” by Polenth Blake (Everyday Aliens)
“In the Zone” by Lisa M. Bradley (Lightspeed)
“The Night Market” by Erin Brown (Skull & Laurel)
“A Dream of Twin Sunsets“ by Ryan Cole (Clarkesworld)
“Six People to Revise You” by J.R. Dawson (Uncanny)
“When the Devil Comes from Babylon” by Maya Deane (Amplitudes)
“Ichthyosis” by M. L. Krishnan (Fantasy)
“Other Wars Elsewhere” by R. B. Lemberg (We Will Rise Again)
“his love's ashes on his tongue” by Monte Lin (Deadlands)
“How to Rob a Bullion Van” by Plangdi Neple (Baffling)
“Tell Them a Story to Teach Them Kindness” by B. Pladek (Lightspeed)
“The Girl that My Mother is Leaving Me For” by Cameron Reed (Reactor)
“Slipcraft” by Jarune Uwuyaren (Fiyah)
“A Nameless Thing” by P. C. Verrone (Fiyah)
“An Asexual Succubus” by John Wiswell (Of Shadows, Stars and Sabres)
Our wonderful cover is by Ashanti Fortson. Cover design by dave ring.