Nearly Roadkill: Queer Love on the Run
Sep 2025 · Simon and Schuster
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About this ebook
This cyber-erotic romantic thriller, written by two queer icons in the 1990s, has been "rebooted" for today's readers.
In this rowdy cyber-romance originally written in the 1990s, two people meet online and fall in love in every guise they can manage. As Scratch and Winc go from anonymous lovers to accidental heroes and gender outlaws, they expose the shadowy Web stretched between technology and capitalist greed, nearly becoming roadkill on the internet superhighway. With a little help from their friends including a brave teenager and a mysterious hacker, these darling rebels fight government intervention and find chosen family in this eerily prescient tale.
The 30th anniversary “reboot” edition includes an updated lens for today’s readers, as GenZ investigative journalist Drew uncovers what just might be the greatest queer love story of all time. Like Octavia Butler's PARABLE OF THE SOWER, Margaret Atwood's A HANDMAID'S TALE, and George Orwell's 1984, the return of NEARLY ROADKILL is right on time with urgent lessons for our contemporary landscape.
In this rowdy cyber-romance originally written in the 1990s, two people meet online and fall in love in every guise they can manage. As Scratch and Winc go from anonymous lovers to accidental heroes and gender outlaws, they expose the shadowy Web stretched between technology and capitalist greed, nearly becoming roadkill on the internet superhighway. With a little help from their friends including a brave teenager and a mysterious hacker, these darling rebels fight government intervention and find chosen family in this eerily prescient tale.
The 30th anniversary “reboot” edition includes an updated lens for today’s readers, as GenZ investigative journalist Drew uncovers what just might be the greatest queer love story of all time. Like Octavia Butler's PARABLE OF THE SOWER, Margaret Atwood's A HANDMAID'S TALE, and George Orwell's 1984, the return of NEARLY ROADKILL is right on time with urgent lessons for our contemporary landscape.
About the author
Author, playwright, performance artist, and actress KATE BORNSTEIN is a trans icon whose pioneering books on the subject of nonbinary gender, GENDER OUTLAW and MY GENDER WORKBOOK are taught in six languages, at hundreds of colleges. Kate’s 2006 book, HELLO, CRUEL WORLD: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws propelled them into an international position of advocacy for marginalized youth, earning two citations of honor from the New York City Council.
CAITLIN SULLIVAN has written several plays, 2 1/2 novels, a comic book, worked as a journalist, and reported and edited for the Seattle Gay News for many years. She lives in a small rural town near a loud donkey and quiet cows.
CAITLIN SULLIVAN has written several plays, 2 1/2 novels, a comic book, worked as a journalist, and reported and edited for the Seattle Gay News for many years. She lives in a small rural town near a loud donkey and quiet cows.
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