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Trans_lucent by Wayward Sparx

A collection of cyberpunk stories carving space out for Trans+ characters in near-futures ravaged by rampant capitalism, terminal environmental decline, state surveillance, poverty, and the rolling back of human rights. Trans_lucent comprises six deeply empathetic stories exploring sex, technology, community, and what it means to be trans in a world where transhumanism has become business as usual. Told with sharp wit, precise prose, and own voice observations, Trans_lucent goes beyond neon lights and empty aesthetic. A testament to human connection in a cold world. Cumulative Realities Transbians Navi and Tash run a bookshop digitally preserving comics, novels, fanzines – anything written by Trans+ folks through history. After their server’s hacked, they risk losing everything. In Wait of Obsolescence What does it mean to be transgender when environmental catastrophe keeps everyone sequestered forever alone in their capsules? Progeny Reproduction is a government interest and job roles are defined before birth. But when Alana Khoury’s progeny open fires on a biotech academy, she’s drawn into rabbit hole about what it means to be a mother. Risingson For cyberware blogger, advisor, and investigator Violet, meeting trans masc cyborg Calder is so much more than another job. The Mnemosyne Cycle Memory, self-determination, and identity in a world where memory wipes are as commonplace as the broken infrastructure and insidious state surveillance. Venus as a T-Boy, Saturn as a Femme Pregnant T4T couple Lacewing and Tawn smuggle themselves into England a decade after they fled. The aim: avoid the law and get safely to Tawn’s family where the baby has a chance at life.

Fortitude Waters by Fox N. Locke

The man who solved his past life’s murder is about to face the cold case of a lifetime. Armed with his soul dowsing pendant, pet hand of glory, and stellar sense of smell, Fortitude Waters specialises in solving cold cases. With souls reborn into new bodies and the economy running on inheritance funds accrued over lifetimes, this perfume-loving private detective peeks behind the veil to find and decipher clues. When he’s reluctantly paired with disabled literary critic, Matilda Tame, on his latest case, the investigation unravels the long-hidden crimes he’s helped conceal. Fort is forced to confront the unresolved trauma of his past life, while Matilda must reconcile motherhood, her professional life, and her own intimate role in proceedings. With a Swiss inspired setting, this sensuous queer-normative novel tells a story about the power of parenting, generational trauma, and the importance of breaking the cycle in order to heal.

A Designer Magick by Fox N. Locke

Vlyn Adare is an illegal magick user hiding in plain sight, a seamstress going nowhere fast. When she’s not dreaming of being Vlyn’s beau, socialite Shirley Hollister fantasises about being a fashion designer but is stuck in a rut as a receptionist. To escape his fundamentalist family, Ellory Miller begrudgingly becomes a mage, even if he only wants to make magickal couture. Rejected by both the mages and gender critical witches, Niven is forced to become a freelancer, hunting rogue magickal users to avoid arrest themself. Lien Bassett, a trans journalist living stealth, has been trying for decades in vain to hold the mage Tower to account. All five are brought together after Ellory blows the whistle on the Head Mage’s criminal activity. Hidden prisons, protests, dramatic magick battles, and plenty of fabulous fashion await them. Unashamedly queer – and built around a slow burn F/F romance – A Designer Magick investigates mental health, gender, and freedom of speech in an evocative 1920s style setting. For fans of V.E. Schwab and C.L. Polk.

Black Velvet by Fox N. Locke

After a near death experience, troubled trans boy Aaron Phillips is haunted by the ghost of Elvis Presley. As if that wasn’t enough, he soon discovers he can bring things back from the dead. 2005 casts a long shadow as Aaron navigates a barely breathing music career, a fraying romantic relationship, and fragile mental health seven years after his dad disappeared. Wracked with academic ennui, depression, and gender dysphoria, Aaron and the afterlife will have to get reacquainted before he can finally find solace. An exploration of love, loss, and queerness, Black Velvet balances the supernatural with the agonies and apathies of confronting adulthood in the Myspace age. For fans of The Lovely Bones, Cemetery Boys, Life is Strange, and Turtles All The Way Down.

Their Heart A Hive by Fox N. Locke

You’ve been summoned to Honeymoore Manor. Will you discover its secrets in this unique spin on the vampire story? Lowen’s a lowborn boy dealing with grief and battling bad luck when he’s summoned to Honeymoore Manor. Within its walls, he finds a new family and becomes entangled in the life of genderqueer aristocrat, Tamorna Rosen Roane, and his strange hive of bees. But behind every bee is a sting. Drawing inspiration from Dracula and Jane Eyre, Cornish folklore and Arthuriana, this sensuous gothic re-imagines the Regency as a queer normative world without a boundary between myth and reality. A story of shanties and secrets, of long dead giants and merfolk that mind the sea, where piskies provide luck and the beast of Brasbudfand stalks the night. Balancing the macabre and the absurd, Their Heart A Hive offers a lyrical fable about the power of kindness and how no one is ever beyond help.