Unreal Sex

An anthology of queer erotic sci-fi, fantasy, and horror.

Edited by So Mayer & Adam Zmith

9781916355361 / PB / £9.99

Welcome to your new favourite genre: the fucking fantastic.

In these ten stories, everything is sex: walls, wax, the past, your future, your neighbours, hankies, candles, circuit boards, petri dishes, scrap metal – and language itself. Conjuring experiences for which there are no words, our amazing queer authors generate new tongues from the heat of their communing with a wild variety of lifeforms.

From Diriye Osman’s spiritualised Peckham to Jem Nash’s time-travelling trans multiverse, these stories transport you to new ways of being and feeling. In a word, it’s CruiserShimmeringLipophilicNeckingerCircuitGirlboss.

Whether you get horny from aliens, ghosts, robots, utopia, possession, ritual, or the completely surreal, there’s a story here for you. But why stop at one when you can taste pleasure in each and every one?

Featuring stories from: Gracie Beswick, Swithun Cooper, Rachel Dawson, Rien Gray, Vivien Holmes, Jem Nash, Diriye Osman, Alison Rumfitt, Nicks Walker & Anna Walsh.

Supported by Arts Council England

So Mayer is a queer feminist writer, bookseller, organiser and anarchival cyborg. Their most recent textual pleasure is A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing (Peninsula, 2020).

Adam Zmith is author of Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures (Repeater Books, 2021), co-producer of The Log Books podcast, and a dirty little space cadet.