Android Press
science fiction & fantasy punks
Android Editors' Manuscript Wishlists
The following androids are the punks who run this outfit. This crew puts a lot of time, love, and care into curating stories and working with authors to develop and prepare the work we publish. Editors are listed alphabetically by last name.
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Robin Rose Graves is looking for:
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mainly for science fiction, including contemporary with light science fiction elements, to even science fantasy or generally speculative. So long as it somehow can be considered scifi. Adult/New Adult/Young Adult.
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LGBT characters for sure. Bonus points if it's a future that's past homophobia. I'll entertain manuscripts that depict homophobia so long as it has purpose in the story besides to make characters suffer.
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Non-traditional family structures
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Exploration of gender and/or presentation (I'm thinking books like The Unraveling like Benjamin Rosenbaum, where bodies can look however and appearance isn't attributed to gender)
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Bioships/biotech
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AI/Androids, particularly stories that explore motivations other than "trying to be human"
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Aliens
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Somto Ihezue is looking for:
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pretty much anything that fits within the scope of the press, but he’d particularly love to see
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Stories that defy.
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Stories that resist.
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Stories that are kind, sincere, and unbowed.
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Stories that find the light.
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Stories that are home.
Coral Alejandra Moore is looking for:
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Character driven stories that focus on the complex relationships between characters.
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Stories that emphasize building groups or communities to overcome obstacles rather than characters solving problems in isolation.
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Stories that defy and especially stories that subvert the Hero’s Journey.
Justine Norton-Kertson is looing for:
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Speculative Climate Fiction (both dystopian horror and optopian/utopian
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Science Fantasy
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Punk SFFH:
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Solarpunk
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Lunarpunk
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Ecopunk
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Hopepunk
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Steampunk
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Cyberpunk
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Godpunk
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As well as stories that:
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integrate social commentary into plot and character development without bashing readers over the head
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also social commentary that bashes readers over the head.
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highlight positive deviance and radical hope
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have compelling villains/antagonists
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depict utopian, but imperfect worlds; defending utopia
Leon Perniciaro is looking for:
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Adult to crossover-YA science fiction and fantasy novels and novellas
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Science fiction or fantasy that has an environmental ben
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Science fiction or fantasy that centers labor conflicts and rights
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Social science fiction (but that's subtly executed!
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Unusual alternate histories
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Stories with found family and mutual aid and care
Leon is less interested in:
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Straight-up horror
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Stories that contain violence against children
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Any kind of sexual violence