Quote:🌞 "Playful and provocative . . . McCombs's mix of heart and zany ideas is often reminiscent of George Saunders. Readers will find plenty of earthy and unearthly delights."
-[b]🌞 Publishers Weekly
"I have been waiting for this sumptuous, prismatic collection for literal years. Theodore McCombs is a poet of queer pasts, presents, and futures, and Uranians is a formidable debut."
-Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties
[/b]At the end of the Victorian era, a handful of public intellectuals advocated for tolerance of the "Uranian"-a man who loved other men. Some went so far as to propose that these "intermediate sexes" might, in fact, constitute a totally different species, even serve as intrepid guides in our march toward an uncertain future.
The five speculative stories in Theodore McCombs's kaleidoscopic collection span several possible worlds, teasing the...