A new venture from Topside Press
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Experience Post-Reality As A Transgender Human™
August 8, 2017
Announcing the new number one post-reality generation device!
After an intensive 2-year development process in our underground labs, TOPSIDE PRESS is in the final stages of testing our new post-reality-generation machine: MEANWHILE, ELSEWHERE: SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY FROM TRANSGENDER WRITERS. But we need your investment to open-source this innovation!
Fund electronic access for all by purchasing a pulpware post-reality device for only $22.95! What’s more, MEANWHILE ELSEWHERE™ is only one of the meatspace equippables in our POST REALITY EXPEDITIONIST’S SUPPLY STORE.
Experience Post-Reality As A Transgender Human™
Purpose: Paperback + Open Access
Our primary funding goal covers R&D costs, author fees, and the design and production of the 10″ x 7″ classic pulpware edition of Meanwhile, Elsewhere. Meeting the primary goal will enable us to simultaneously release a DRM-free ePub. Help us open-source transgender post-reality by offering electronic versions of Meanwhile, Elsewhere at no cost to readers around the globe and beyond.
Delivery: Sept 2017
About the Book
Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers
Edited by Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett • Release Date: September 7, 2017
Short speculative fiction by twenty-five transgender writers in North America and Europe.
New work from:
BRIDGET LIANG
RJ EDWARDS
AISLING FAE
TRISH SALAH
CALVIN GIMPELEVICH
AYŞE DEVRIM
PAIGE BRYONY
COOPER LEE BOMBARDIER
SADIE AVERY
BECKETT K. BAUER
COLETTE ARRAND
SYBIL LAMB
JANEY LOVEBOMB
M EIGHTEEN TÉLLEZ
EMMA ADDAMS
DANE FIGUEROA EDIDI
BRENDAN WILLIAMS-CHILDS
KAJ WORTH
IMOGEN BINNIE
TRISTAN ALICE NIETO
NAT BUCHBINDER
RYKA AOKI
MORGAN M PAGE
JEANNE THORNTON
Distinctive Attributes To Stoke Flames of Desire
Selected Features
Twenty-five (25) Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Stories
430+ Pages of Fresh Work from Trans Writers
Approved for Home Use
Side Effects May Include
Premium Investment Level
Post Reality Manipulation Kit
Price $99.00
Our premium investment level
Receive 1x MEANWHILE, ELSEWHERE, 1xDELUXE ISOLATION KIT and 1x POST-REALITY MULTITOOL
Is your reality incompatible with the latest versions of your post-reality? Make the necessary adjustments to your context and/or self with this 6-in-1 multitool!
FEATURING
-Multiversal adapter
-Tangibility debugger
-Corporeal interfacer
-Automanifester
-Objective enhancer
-Phillips-head Screwdriver
Don’t take our word for it
Praise for Meanwhile, Elsewhere
These twenty-five stories… imagine a new world as much as they represent and challenge the one we live in. Bodies fall apart in this speculative landscape as much as they are built up, and each time is as miraculous—or as horrifying—as the author crafts it to be.
Evelyn Deshane
Plentitude Magazine http://plenitudemagazine.ca/
Spans many genres, including tech-heavy sci-fi, religious parody, zombie gorefest, high fantasy, and post-apocalyptic survival tale … There’s something here for nearly everyone.
Publisher’s Weekly http://publishersweekly.com
Brutal and tender, thoughtful and brazen, riotous and serene, Meanwhile, Elsewhere will startle you into consciousness through to the last page. Trans people have always known we’re the logical conclusion of speculative fiction, and this book is all the proof I need that we were right.
Meredith Russo
author of If I Was Your Girl https://us.macmillan.com/author/meredithrusso
I can’t think of a single book that has affected me in so many ways. By turns, it provoked me, inspired me, disturbed me, enthralled me, and, in its final pages, moved me to tears. This book changed the way I dream.
Zoey Leigh Peterson
author of Next Year, For Sure https://www.zoeyleighpeterson.com/
Investment opportunities
Current Offerings
Pulpware Device
Receive one (1) MEANWHILE, ELSEWHERE just as soon as it comes out of our 2D printers!
Price: $22.95
Isolation Kit
Does meatspace keep intruding on your post-real voyages? You need our Isolation Kit!
Receive one (1) MEANWHILE ELSEWHERE
AND
2x Fair Trade brand PHONIC ISOLATION VALVE (PiV) -amplifiers for the voices inside your head
1x ENVIRONMENTAL STABILIZER -establish a sea of tranquility around your post-reality portal
Price: $22.95
Disaster Readiness Kit
Receive 1x MEANWHILE ELSEWHERE; 1x ISOLATION KIT
AND
1x OFFSITE BACKUP PULPWARE DEVICE
Generously present this duplicate device to a friend, colleague or library to ensure back-up access to post-reality when your living situation inevitably becomes untenable.
Price: $22.95
Deluxe Isolation Kit
Receive 1x MEANWHILE ELSEWHERE; 1x ISOLATION KIT
AND
1 pair DEAL-WITH-ITS™ EMOTIONAL TRANSMISSION DAMPENERS
Post-real emotions are highly transmissible and dangerous. Ensure the safety of yourself and your co-expeditionists, and look cool while you’re doing it, with a pair fashionable of DEAL-WITH-ITS™ emotional transmission dampeners.
Price: $75.00
Post Reality Manipulation Kit
Our premium investment level
Receive 1x MEANWHILE, ELSEWHERE, 1xDELUXE ISOLATION KIT and 1x POST-REALITY MULTITOOL
Is your reality incompatible with the latest versions of your post-reality? Make the necessary adjustments to your context and/or self with this 6-in-1 multitool!
FEATURING
-Multiversal adapter
-Tangibility debugger
-Corporeal interfacer
-Automanifester
-Objective enhancer
-Phillips-head Screwdriver
Price: $99.00
Terraforming Kit
Do your ambitions stretch beyond personal post-reality? You can change literally the whole world!
Receive 1x MEANWHILE, ELSEWHERE, 1xDELUXE ISOLATION KIT, 1x POST-REALITY MULTITOOL
AND
1x PERSPECTIVE REPLACEMENT MEMBRANE
Compatible with environments including 21st century earth and/or moon. Suitable for framing or hanging up over your window to block out the rest of the world.
Price: $22.95