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Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling

Jaym Gates & Monica L. Valentinelli

First published 2016
Publisher Apex Publications
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Galen Dara
Pages 366
Price $18.95
ISBN 9781937009441

Divided into four sections: "Inverting the Tropes" (stories), "Discussing the Tropes" (essays), "Defining the Tropes" (each story author talks about the trope they inverted, and is given a bio), and "Acknowledgments and Additional Bios" (editors' and essay authors' bios).
The editor is credited as "Monica L. Valentinelli" on the title page and copyright page, as "Monica Valentinelli" on the cover, the bio, and the credit of the afterword.
Data from publisher's website. Date from copyright page ("First edition: November 2016"); sent to Kickstarter backers in November, on general sale in December. Contents from ebook edition.

Page Title Author(s) Type
|1 Introduction (Upside Down) Jerry Gordon Essay
|10 Her Curse, How Gently It Comes Undone Haralambi Markov Short Story
|11 Burning Bright Shanna Germain Short Story
|12 Santa CIS (Episode 1: No Saint) Alethea Kontis Novelette
|13 Requiem for a Manic Pixie Dream Greg Stolze & Katy Harrad Short Story
|14 The Refrigerator in the Girlfriend Adam-Troy Castro Short Story
|15 The First Blood of Poppy Dupree Delilah S. Dawson Short Story
|16 Red Light Sara M. Harvey Short Story
|17 Until There Is Only Hunger Michael Matheson Short Story
|18 Super Duper Fly Maurice Broaddus Short Story
|19 Drafty As a Chain Mail Bikini Kat Richardson Short Story
|2 On Loving Bad Boys: A Villainelle Valya Dudycz Lupescu Poem
|20 Swan Song Michelle Lyons-McFarland Short Story
|21 Those Who Leave Michael Choi Short Story
|22 Nouns of Nouns: A Mini Epic Alex Shvartsman Short Story
|23 Excess Light Rahul Kanakia Short Story
|24 The Origin of Terror Sunil Patel Short Story
|25 The Tangled Web Ferrett Steinmetz Short Story
|26 Hamsa, Hamsa, Hamsa, Tfu, Tfu, Tfu Alisa Schreibman Short Story
|27 Real Women Are Dangerous Rati Mehrotra Short Story
|28 I'm Pretty Sure I've Read This Before... Patrick Hester Essay
|29 Fractured Souls: The Evolution of the Gothic Double from Stevenson to King Lucy A. Snyder Essay
|3 Single, Singularity John Hornor Jacobs Short Story
|30 Into the Labyrinth: The Heroine's Journey A. C. Wise Essay
|31 Escaping the Hall of Mirrors Victor Raymond Essay
|32 Tropes as Erasers: A Transgender Perspective Keffy R. M. Kehrli Essay
|33 Afterword: Authors and Their Tropes Jaym Gates & Monica Valentinelli Essay
|34 Index of Tropes uncredited Essay
|4 Lazzrus Nisi Shawl Short Story
|5 Seeking Truth Elsa Sjunneson Henry Short Story
|6 Thwock Michelle Muenzler Short Story
|7 Can You Tell Me How to Get to Paprika Place? Michael Underwood Short Story
|8 Chosen Anton Strout Short Story
|9 The White Dragon Alyssa Wong Short Story

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling Cover 2016 Apex Publications Hardcover Anthology Galen Dara 366
Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling Cover 2016 Apex Publications eBook Anthology Galen Dara