Uranians Av Theodore Mccombs

<b>"Playful and provocative . . . McCombs’s mix of heart and zany ideas is often reminiscent of George Saunders. Readers will find plenty of earthy and unearthly delights."<br>—<i><b>Publishers Weekly</b></i><br><br>“I have been waiting for this sumptuous, prismatic collection for literal years. Theodore McCombs is a poet of queer pasts, presents, and futures, and <i>Uranians</i> is a formidable debut.”<br>—Carmen Maria Machado, author of<i> Her Body and Other Parties</i><br><br></b>At the end of the Victorian era, a handful of public intellectuals advocated for tolerance of the “Uranian”—a man who loved other men. Some went so far as to propose that these “intermediate sexes” might, in fact, constitute a totally different species, even serve as intrepid guides in our march toward an uncertain future.<br><br>The five speculative stories in Theodore McCombs’s kaleidoscopic collection span several possible worlds, teasing