“The Bookstore at the End of America”

2019 Anders, Charlie Jane (b. 1969). “The Bookstore at the End of America.” A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers. Ed. Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) (New York: One World, 2019), 3-26. Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 1-22, with an editor’s note on 1; and in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020. Ed. Diana Gabaldon (Boston, MA: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), 204-22, with a note on the author together with the author’s note on the story on 391. PSt 

The story takes place in a bookstore that straddles the boundary between California and the United States, which are at war. Transgender author.