TY - ABST T1 - “The Hermit of Houston” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

A same-sex love story told by one of the individuals after the other has died, although the man’s memory is not reliable. It is set in an overpopulated future where same-sex relationships are encouraged, men and women are, to some degree, kept separate, and, as the story puts it, “mixed up the genders,” although the story does not include any of the last. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 133.3/4 (733) SN - 978-1-328-83456-0 978-1-78108-573-8 978-1-60701-5260 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2018. Ed. N[ora] K. Jemisin (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, 2018), 63-91; in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2018), 591-619; and in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2018 Edition. Ed. Rich Horton ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 62-85. 

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Merril, PSt

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