3.5/5
This anthology had some really amazing stories but also many that fell flat. It is still an amazing queer anthology and I'd possibly check out the next one. My favorite stories from this novel were Doublers, Renaissance, Reshadow, Department of Homegoing Affairs and Present:Tense.

The last 50% of the book didn't do much for me and made me almost DNF a few times.

I'd love for some of my favorite stories to be whole books.

Anthologies are always a bit hit-or-miss for me given the nature of the beast, but I’ve had great luck with them this year. Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder has officially become one of my all-time favourite anthologies. Maybe this isn’t surprising since ‘queer in space’ is a forever favourite theme of mine, but regardless, I stand by the quality of the works in this collection. Brimming with imaginative worlds and representation, the authors featured in Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder offer a dizzying, captivating array of possibilities in the stories they offer.

I have favourites, of course:

Claire Kann’s The Rift, where a girl who saved the world brokers back-alley deals and collects seedy favours for a plan of her own.
Nita Tyndall’s Translating for the Machine, where a young person who falls outside the binary is the only one who can understand an enigmatic, ominous, city-controlling AI.
Adam Sass’ Reshadow, a horror-infused tale of an escape room with a perilous, heart-racing twist
K. Ancrum’s H O M E, a story about two teens living out their days stuck in a time loop on a space station
Fractal Eyes by Ugochi M. Agoawike, where a research assistant studies an entity far more complex and dangerous than anyone realizes.

Overall, highly recommended for fans of science fiction/sci-fantasy who want a selection of fantastic, diverse stories from across a galaxy of identities. I’ll definitely be seeking out the previous two entries in this anthology series as well!

Thank you to Inkyard Press and NetGalley for the advance review copy. All opinions are my own.

This was an awesome collection of LGBT short stories. The problem with anthologies is the ones I like I really like but the ones I like really take the overall rating down. We love space gays, sometimes it's that simple.

Overall enjoyable sci-fi, even if it is a bit uneven what a great thing to have in the world! The range of sci-fi stories explored and the range of how the LGBTQ component impacted the story make for an interesting overview of story-telling.

A wonderful collection of YA romance sci-fi.
I love that the 17 YA authors write the stories they wish were available when they were teens.

All Out definitely remains my favorite of these anthologies, though the concept of the series is stellar. Anthologies are always going to be a mixed bag, and Out There is no different. My overall average rating is 2.94 stars, exactly equal to my average rating of Out Now which is interesting. While many of the stories in this collection were 3 stars or less, there were a few that rose above the rest: my favorites were Doublers by Alex London, Translating for the Machine by Nita Tyndall, Present: Tense by Jim McCarthy, and Nick and Bodhi by Naomi Kanakia. The gender, sexuality, and race diversity seems to be a good mix. Most of the stories were sort of grim, with a dismal imagining of the future--I understand that this often goes hand-in-hand with science-fiction, but I'd have greatly appreciated more of a hopeful outlook for humanity, and queer people in particular. How is it that All Out, the anthology of stories set in the past, leave me feeling most joyful and optimistic compared to the present and future collections?

Reviews of individual stories available in my Goodreads review at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3700720699

This is a cool little collection of queer sci-fi stories — something that I would definitely recommend. Claire Kann’s was obviously my favorite, but K. Ancrum’s “Home” definitely also places. It’s no Dahlia Adler anthology, but it is very good — I think it’s really important to read stories of queer people having a future. Four stars.

Like with most short story anthologies, not every story was to my taste, but I did love the overarching theme of the collection -- a hopeful look to a vibrant, diverse, and queer future. I liked that the stories examined all type of identities and experiences and gave voices to so many people in the community. The stories range from dystopian type settings, to every day life but with some surprising twists, while others blend fantasy with scifi, or take place on other planets. My favorites are Concerto, H O M E, and The Rift. All in all, a fitting coda to a series of exciting and queer short story anthologies!

Yet another solid piece in the "out" series! This time readers take a journey into the future, and the collection of stories within continue to enthrall with various representation.

The average rating per story is 3.04 stars. Not the most successful anthology for me, I’ve read 2 of the anthologies out of the 3 “Out” anthologies and I didn’t love either of them, so I probably won’t read any more of these. My favorite stories were:
“The Rift”
“Translating for the Machine”
“Concerto”
“Fractal Eyes”

This was an enjoyable anthology, although I will say that of them, my favorites were Kaylon Bayron's Department of Homegoing Affairs, K. Ancrum's Home, and Naomi Kanakia's Nick and Bodhi.

I requested this anthology because I really enjoyed Alechia Dow’s book The Sound of Stars and wow, it did not disappoint. This is the last of a trio of queer anthologies that started wit. all Out. Out There is a fantastic collection of futuristic stories ranging from time travel and time loop stories to aliens. Of course, the representation is out of this world as well. I’m definitely going to go read the first 2 books in this series.

This collection is probably more like a 3.5 for me than a straight 3-star. In general, the stories all felt a bit samey to me as they were all pretty high school focused. With the mix of genres and mix of representations, I would have loved a mix of setting/tone as well. I did really love Renaissance by Emma K Ohland. I loved the bitter-sweet story with such a closed-off cast and atmosphere.

This was a very interesting compilation of sci-fi queer short stories.

On the whole, I found most of the stories really fun and intriguing but there were a handful of stories I wasn't a fan of. Most by authors I've read works of before and this kind of solidified my dislike of them. I think this also really showed that I am not a fan of open-ended endings. I need things to be wrapped up with a bow and short stories just aren't meant for that, but that's a personal opinion.

Sci-fi gives so much room for exploration in storytelling and that's what I like about it and the fact that the focus was on the sci-fi story and not on homophobia or transphobia was also refreshing (not to say that all of the stories were free from discrimination, like the one where the savior of the world was a black girl but the powers that be said "nope, we're picking the blond white guy as our poster child" was great commentary).

I loved the ones where the idea was "and then all the cis het people vanished" because that's just such a funny idea to play with, because it sounds ideal on the outside to a queer person, but then you still have to throw in all of the rest of the -isms and -phobias that are problems in the queer community to know it still wouldn't create an ideal world. That's not a criticism of the stories, they're short stories so it's limited time to work with, but they were just very thought provoking.

The one that stood out to me the most was the retelling of Sleeping Beauty, if only because Sleeping Beauty is my favorite childhood Disney movie and I love to read every take on it I can find, especially when it's queer.

And I especially loved the title of the last story, "Nobody Cares Who We Kiss At the End of the World".

Thank you to NetGalley and Inkyard Press for making this available in exchange for an honest review!

Though I read through most of each story, my review and rating is exclusively for Reshadow by Adam Sass and Alechia Dow's Beauty Sleep.

Ok, so, disregarding *that ending* for the time being, Reshadow needs to be immediately sold as a TV pilot. A show about Escape Rooms but make it about changing different pivotal life choices??? YES! ABSOLUTELY! GIMME! Adam can write anything and I'll read it. This story kept me engaged from beginning to the shocking twist ending.

Beauty Sleep, written by Scifi Queen, Alechia Dow, almost feels like a draft that took a different path of Alecia's latest release, The Kindred. Both stories are about mind linking to another person and learning to see things in a different perspective. And, in true Alechia Dow fashion, music and humanity are the heart of the story. Sleeping Beauty retelling but with consent!

Thank you so much, NetGalley and Inkyard Press, for the chance to read this amazing collection in exchange of an honest review.

Out there is the third installmente of anthologies, that started with All out and Out now, with seventeen original stories set in future worlds and narrated by amazing and queer YA authors, like Z.R. Ellor, Mason Deaver and so many incredible more.
Between consciousness uploded into a body on Mars, aliens helping a girl revealing her feeling, time loops,
time travels, world vanishing, this collection of stories is amazing and thrilling and I loved every single short story.
Surprising, mesmering and moving, these stories are beautifully written and a joy to read and discover. It was such a pleasure read short stories from some of my favourite authors, like Mason Deaver and Adam Sass, and I've also got the chance to know other queer authors, so my TBR is even longer now. I couldn't recommend this collection, and the two previous ones, enough. Go get lost in love stories and space and time.

First, thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for a copy in exchange for honest and fair feedback.

In my honest and fair feedback... I enjoyed it! The best part about anthologized collections is that even though some stories aren't perfect, you get those really powerful ones that make you forget about the ones you don't like. I thoroughly enjoyed this one, and overall, it's a really solid collection of stories! I loved the concept, I loved the execution (mostly), and while I did knock off a star because I've read better anthologized collections, I think it's still great! It's worth a read.

4/5

3.5 stars

A few of the stories just ended, like really abruptly. There was no resolution for theme and that's okay, but not my personal taste. It is a joy to know that all the stories have a queer character and the importance of that can't be understated. I'm not the biggest sci-fi/space/dystopian fan so that's also affecting my rating.

I was excited to dip my toes into more Sci-fi with this collection of short stories, and I'm so glad I made that decision. I have also never reviewed an anthology before, so bear with me. While a few of them really didn't work for me, either way I've come out of it with more than a handful of new authors that I want to check out their blacklist. My favorites from the anthology we're written by Alex London, Mato J Steger,Z.R. Ellor, Emma K Ohland, Abdi Nazemian, K. Ancrum, and Leah Johnson. My favorites are all short stories that left me satisfied but wishing there was more, and ended with hope of happily ever afters in their futures. I'm going to talk about these favorites a little and at the end give my rating for the others.

My Favorites
(In reading Order)

Doublers by Alex London ⭐⭐⭐⭐
M/M I'll be honest I don't know how to explain this one fully but it's a future where you can transfer your conscious to a synthetic body on Mars, but your original self, your doubler, stays on earth and you're suppose to be determinated, but many people go rogue. Two boys who break up and re-find each other both on Mars and the Doublers on Earth, but their reunion can go positive or negatively.

Aesthetically Hungry by Mato J Steger ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
M/M Trans MC
Physical Augments that allow a trans boy to finally have the body he imagines for himself but in the end finds someone who loves him for him, augmentation or not.

Renaissance by Emma K Ohland ⭐⭐⭐⭐
F/F Earth and the stars are dying . A poor girl and a rich girl bond under the stars and it's a bit depressing but ends on a note of hope.

Like sunshine, like concrete by Z.R. Ellor ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
M/M Trans male mc
Super Soldiers - enemies to lovers - I don't want to say anything else because this is one where the plot twists are what made this story great. I just loved it!

Crash Landing by Mason Deaver⭐⭐⭐⭐
F/F , Trans female
Girl Home alone for 2 days spends the day with an alien who crash lands in her backyard and gives her the courage to tell her best friend her feelings.

Concerto by Abdi Nazemian⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
M/M ,PoC mcs
The air had become toxic from man-made nuclear disasters, so people are using time loops to either go forward in time or backwards. Because of their families , two boys in love end up going in different directions. They are always connected through the power of music and find their way back to one another through time.

Home by K. Ancrum ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Two Queer people on a space station find themselves in a 24 hour time loop, just the two of them. They form an incomparable bond and are together for decades before potentially find a way to fix the loop.

Nobody Cares Who We Kiss at the End of the World by Leah Johnson ⭐⭐⭐⭐
F/F A girl and her girlfriend wake up to find they are the only people left in the world. Both had opposite family lives, so both have different reactions to their new reality. How will they react to the discovery that maybe they aren't the only people left after all.
Great end to the Anthology!


The Rift by Claire Kann ⭐⭐⭐
The department of Home Going Affairs by Kalynn Bayron ⭐⭐⭐
The Undeniable Price of Everything by Z Brewer ⭐⭐⭐
Present: Tense by Jim Mccarthy ⭐⭐⭐
Fractal Eyes by Ugochi M. Agoawike ⭐⭐
Translating for The Machine by Nita Tyndall ⭐⭐
Reshadow by Adam Sass ⭐⭐⭐
Beauty Sleep by Alechia Dow ⭐⭐
Nick and Bodhi by Naomi Kanakia (DNF)

Out There
Into the Queer New Yonder
By Saundra Mitchell

A Review by Jamilla (LandsAwayBooks @Wordpress)

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher, Inkyard Press for this eARC in exchange for a honest review!

I used to devour short stories, but it’s been a while! Having Out There be my reintroduction to the storytelling form was amazing! I’ve been craving sci-fi a lot recently and these captivating stories about places far, far away and the pervasive humanness of it all, was a delight to read. Seventeen queer sci-if stories, spanning from going down a wormhole, being trapped in a time loop, loving a beautiful alien you met on a SM site and Tchaikovsky’s Concerto in D Major.

Some of the standouts of this anthology are below!

Doublers by Alex London, with that poignant use of repetition was a stunning opener! And a short story that left you satisfied with just a bit of yearning for more.

Home by K Ancrum, to be honest, Ancrum is just a bloody good writer! And I find her work to be so delightfully experimental and unique! Her author’s voice is distinctive but also very fluid, and I love the way she builds a story! Home was no different! Brilliant and lost. A bit like horror? Very love at the end of the world....in this case moon.

Fractal Eyes by Ugochi M. Agoawike, so strange, so charming. I can not say that I understand what the heck this story was about, but I was captivated, from beginning to end, much like Chi is, of this bizarre and maybe a bit familiar Essence.

Concerto by Abdi Nazemian, a love that reaches out through time. This is ROMANCE, okay? Yearning and angst, and losing each other and meeting again and being entangled, like the roots of trees. Bittersweet.

The Rift by Claire Kann, this one stopped very abruptly I thought initially, but I really enjoyed the MC, she was super badass, and sometimes I feel the exact same way, let’s open a rift and travel to a world that can love us.

The Department of Homegoing Affairs by Kaylyn Barron, ghosts, a train ticket and a grandma not ready to let go. Really enjoyed this very emotional story about death and grief.

All in all, a fun, queer af, ‘out there’ anthology that was throughly enjoyable! It’s very cool that there are two more of these out already I can dive right into!