Sandra McDonald’s story Fleet appeared in the post-colonial anthology We See A Different Frontier (along with my short story Remembering Turinam). My story received an honorable mention in the recently released 31st edition of The Year’s Best Science Fiction — Sandra’s went all the way and earned inclusion in its pages.
Congratulations Sandra! And I’m honored to have been included in the same anthology with you.
Recently, The Future Fire interviewed Sandra about gender, colonialism, and the story she wrote for We See a Different Frontier:
How we define, defend and debate gender in the U.S. is fascinating to me, and certainly there are clashes between cultures where gender is rigidly enforced vs where gender variety is protected. For years now i’ve tried to explore those schisms and honor the men and women who live outside the boxes we try to stuff them in.
You can check out the whole interview on The Future Fire editor’s blog. There’s a smattering of some Buddhist perspective in there too.