G.V. Anderson’s I Am Not I

Stories from Fantasy & Science Fiction Jul/Aug 2017:

Whether you label G.V. Anderson’s “I Am Not I” fantasy or bizarro fiction, you’d be correct. A wonderfully imaginative novelette about a girl who struggles for survival in a world of over-evolved lusus naturae who malign the merely human. “The inspiration for the honey man, I remember very clearly. The photographs online of lotus pods grafted onto various body parts—most people have seen those, I expect. They gave me nightmares, but I knew it would make an amazing visual for a character.”