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Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction Tate One of the functions of*This is NOT a comic! But sometimes we like books too! Edited by Lee Mandelo. Published by Lethe. Softcover, 274 pages, Prose, 2012. Speculative fiction is the literature of questions, of challenges and imagination, and what better to question than the ways in which gender and sexuality have been rigidly defined, partitioned off, put in little boxes? These seventeen stories explore the ways in which identity can go beyond binary from space colonies to