The Reinvented Heart

What happens when emotions like love and friendship span vast distances - in space, in time, and in the heart?Science fiction often focuses on future technology and science without considering the ways social structures will change as tech changes - or not. What will relationships look like in a complicated future of clones, uploaded intelligences, artificial brains, or body augmentation? What stories emerge when we acknowledge possibilities of new genders and ways of thinking about them? The Reinvented Heart presents stories that complicate sex and gender by showing how shifting technology may affect social attitudes and practices, stories that include relationships with communities and social groups, stories that reinvent traditional romance tropes and recast them for the 21st century, and above all, stories that experiment, astonish, and entertain. Table of Contents  Foreword by Cat Rambo HEARTSPoem: They: A Grammar Lesson by Jane YolenRetrospect by Seanan McGuireLockpick, Locked Heart by AnaMaria CurtisTouch Has a Memory by Lisa MortonPing-Pong Dysphoria by Madeline PineIn Our Masks, the Shadows by Sam FlemingShips of Theseus by Felicity DrakeWith All Souls Still Aboard by Premee MohamedMore than Nine by Beth Cato HANDSPoem: There Is a Hand by Jane YolenThe Shape of the Particle by Naomi KritzerNo Want to Spend by Sophie GiroirLittle Deaths and Missed Connections by Maria DongSincerely Yours by Lyda MorehousePhotosynthesis, Growth by Devin MillerNo Pain but That of Memory by Aimee OgdenGo Where the Heart Takes You by Anita Ensal MINDSPoem: Mars Conquest by Jane YolenThe Star-Crossed Horoscope for Interstellar Travelers by Fran WildeCanvas of Sins by Mercedes M.
YardleyIf My Body Is a Temple, Raze It to the Ground by Lauren RingPerfectMateT by Xander OdellEtruscan Afterlife by Rosemary Claire SmithOur Savage Heart Calls to Itself (Across the Endless Tides) by Justina Robson Afterword by Jennifer Brozek Biographies