Now cheaper and smaller, the original Stonewall Award-winning collection of trans sci-fi and fantasy is back in print, with a new 2024 afterword from the editors.

In 2017, Meanwhile, Elsewhere, a large, strange, and devastatingly touching anthology of science fiction and fantasy from transgender authors was released onto the world. The collection received rave acclaim and won the ALA Stonewall Book Award's Barbara Gittings Literature Award. When its original publisher went out of business, the book fell out of print, and LittlePuss Press is now pleased to bring this title back to life for a new audience of readers.

What is Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy From Transgender Writers? It is the #1 post-reality generation device approved for home use. It will prepare you to travel from multiverse to multiverse. No experience is required! Choose from twenty-five preset post-realities! Rejoice at obstacles unquestionably bested and conflicts efficiently resolved. Bring denouement to your drama with THE FOOLPROOF AUGMENTATION DEVICE FOR OUR CONTEMPORARY UTOPIA.

Cat Fitzpatrick is the Editrix at LittlePuss Press, the Director of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University--Newark. She is the author of a collection of poems, Glamourpuss (Topside Press, 2016) and co-edited the anthology Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction & Fantasy from Transgender Writers, which won the ALA Stonewall Award for Literature. The Call-Out is her first novel.

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Casey Plett is the author of the novel Little Fish and the short story collections A Dream of a Woman and A Safe Girl to Love, and co-editor of the anthology Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers (Topside Press). She wrote a column on transitioning for McSweeney's Internet Tendency and her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Maclean's, The Walrus, Plenitude, the Winnipeg Free Press, and other publications. She is the winner of two Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction, winner of the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, and she received an Honour of Distinction from The Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers. She lives in Windsor, Ontario.

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• Winner, ALA Stonewall Book Award Barbara Gittings Award
• Short-listed, Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ+ Anthology

“This book changed the way I dream.”
—Zoey Leigh Peterson, author of Next Year, For Sure

“Fueled by politics and history, conceived by experience and imagination ... prepare for an emotional roller-coaster of a read. These enchanting and eye-opening tales move us to think and feel beyond genre norms.”
—Library Journal

“Instead of using SF/F to theorize new trans possibilities, they use trans realities to imagine new possibilities for SF/F. … There’s much to love, and much to dwell upon. A dazzling showcase of speculative writing … huge, vibrant, and full of ideas.”
—Strange Horizons

“A treasure trove of trans peoples' dreams and nightmares.”
—Katherine Cross, author of Log Off

“Generous…important.”
—Booklist

“Meanwhile, Elsewhere will startle you into consciousness through to the last page.”
—Meredith Russo, author of If I Was Your Girl and Birthday

"Imagine[s] a new world as much as they represent and challenge the one we live in. Bodies fall apart in this speculative landscape as much as they are built up, and each time is as miraculous—or as horrifying—as the author crafts it to be."
—Plenitude

"Ground-breaking … I was totally blown away by the quality: their inventiveness, their humour, and their emotional impact. There were stories that made me laugh out loud, ones that made me think real hard, and ones that made me cry … I am so excited for the future of speculative fiction and trans fiction and that very special intersection of trans speculative fiction that Meanwhile, Elsewhere represents. Get this book, and get it now."
—Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian

“Remarkable … fun and totally wild … Meanwhile, Elsewhere is good, weird, out of this world, and occasionally trashy. But more importantly, it defies the singular trans story of the mainstream media, and shows how visionary and interesting trans writers are when they have the chance to write stories they really want to tell.“
—Truthout

"In a word, brilliant. You want other words? Okay, how about fantastic, original, engaging, wondrous, amusing, exciting, arousing, and intellectually stimulating ... Multi-author anthologies are always a hit-or-miss proposition, even when built around a theme, but Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett have done an astounding job."
—Bending the Bookshelf