Leslie What’s stories have appeared in Asimov’s, Hysteria, F&SF, Lilith Fiction Quarterly, and other magazines, journals, and anthologies. She tells us, “Whatworld can be viewed at: http://www.sff.net/people/leslie.what.”

Будущего НЕТ? Или — есть, но ТАКОЕ, что лучше бы его и вовсе не было? Значит, не сработают уже ни киберпанк, ни стимпанк, ни рибофанк! Настало время ВИТПАНКА! Полный спектр американской нонконформистской фантастики! Фантастики безжалостной — и озорной, сюрреалистической и сатирической. Если окружающий мир слишком глуп, слишком жесток или слишком неадекватен — что остается делать нормальному человеку? Только СМЕЯТЬСЯ!

Witpunk, an edgy collection of sardonic fiction, was inspired when someone asked on an Internet literary forum, "When did reading SF/fantasy stop being fun?" Claude Lalumière, a popular Canadian author and columnist, took exception to this and, along with editor Marty Halpern, put together an anthology of some of the best works of satirical fiction in the last two decades. p While some of the stories are speculative classics, like Robert Silverberg's "Amanda and the Alien," Pat Cadigan's "Mother's Milk," and Nina Kiriki Hoffman's "Savage Breasts," half the collection is made up of never-before-published works by some of the brightest authors in contemporary science fiction and fantasy,...

An anthology of stories edited by Esther M. Freisner and Martin Harry Greenberg In a collection of fantasy stories, warrior women take on pirates invading a charity ball, bring an obnoxious loremaster to justice, protect children from magically-summoned barbarian hordes, and rescue Tokyo from destructive reptiles.