Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories

This is a very interesting and entertaining collection of stories that run the gamut of the LGBTQ experience. The stories are literary, yet have fantastical elements to them. And there's an obsession with firefighters. What really struck me about these stories was that I was able to get into most of them very easily. Sometimes with short fiction, it takes the whole story to get into it, but I found that the stories grabbed me right from the start and most of the characters instantly likeable or relatable. Some of the stories are standalone and some of them are related. They all take place in the same universe, mostly around a city called Massasoit. They take place in different times, but in the end story, all the stories more or less come together. My favorite of the stories were the Diana Comet stories, of which there were three where she was a main character. But almost all them were fun and inventive. This book won the Lambda Literary Award for Sci Fi/Fantasy/Horror in 2011.

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