WILDE STORIES 2009 The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction Steve Berman (editor) Eleven tales that range from the chilling I’m Your Violence to the surreal Dim Star Descried to the fantastical Firooz and His Brother. Many of the authors included have won awards for their fiction, and their stories seek to press new boundaries of loneliness, loss and love, between men and monster (and those men who happen to be monsters). 236 pages, paperback