Periphery

by Lynne Jamneck (Editor), Gwyneth Jones, Kristyn Dunnion

Periphery is as much about the female perspective of the future as it is an exploration of individual identity in a world increasingly dominated by technology. How do we define our humanity, if not by the way we connect to others? Yet, even in the realm of the physical and the sensual, technology continues to change perspectives on what it means to be human. Through the stories collected in Periphery, we experience the intersection between a number of possible futures, and how we will continue to discover through our fallible emotions what it means to be human.

Genres: Erotica, Anthologies

149 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 1, 2007

About the author

Lynne Jamneck is a fiction writer and editor with an MA in English Literature from Auckland University. Her work has earned nominations for the Sir Julius Vogel and Lambda awards.

Her short fiction has been published in a variety of venues including Jabberwocky, H.P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror, and the anthologies So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction and Black Wings of Cthulhu V. She has also edited several anthologies, including *Periphery* (2008), *Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror* (2015), and, co-edited with S.T. Joshi, Gothic Lovecraft (2016).

Reviews

[Djibril Al-ayad · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the e-book version, published by Untreed Reads, of Periphery, originally published in print four years ago by Lethe Press, and edited by Lynne Jamneck, a New Zealand-based writer. This anthology contains twelve stories, ranging in length from short to very short (although nothing is technically flash), with a wide range of science fictional and technophilic themes, all of which contain lesbian protagonists and a romantic or erotic flavour. Like the best of themed anthologies, this volume very much has a coherent feel to it; despite the wide variety of story types (and to some extent quality) this never becomes a random collection of stories, but rather there is a strong sense of the editor’s vision and influence throughout. At least half of the stories in Periphery are in the very-good-to-excellent category, and Jamneck has pulled in some wonderful talent for this project.

[sil · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well, so far this looks like your typical sf anthology - that is, mostly crap with a couple of gems potentially lurking in the pages. Picked it off the library shelf on a whim. We'll see.

UPDATE: Just as I thought. Except the "gems" weren't even that great. Bummer.

[Catherine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another anthology I have a story in.

[Katherine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Honestly, I bought this book for Lyda Morehouse's story, but the other stories are really good, too. I was particularly taken with Nicola Griffith's.

[Allison Thurman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hot and sweet - I especially loved the story about the miner and the sheltered girl who get lost in space.