Otto Adelman is a transgender public speaker and sci-fi and fantasy author, focusing on inclusion in fiction.
He is currently seeking representation.
My Background
I’m a public speaker and author who finished my first novel at age 14, and I haven’t stopped since. I focus primarily on sci-fi and fantasy, working on incorporating marginalized identities, including my own (Jewish and transgender), into genre fiction in a fun, intuitive, and natural way. I primarily speak on transgender issues and how our identities can become sources of joy instead of pain. I work in the nonprofit sector.
I am currently seeking fiction representation for New Boston, a science fiction art heist set in a Martian colony that caters to the wealthy and powerful, and for The Diamond Eternal, a queer, young adult science fiction following a princess, some pirates, and a stolen intergalactic cruise ship. If you like seeing unethical rich people and cruel homophobes getting what’s coming to them, these are the books for you.
“[Adelman] has structured the play well. Seemingly off-hand comments take on greater, darker resonance as the stories progress, and the comic moments are used sparingly…[Adelman’s] play rightly offers no answers, but rather the hint of an explanation, a brief glimpse into darker places so that those who live more of their lives in the light will begin to understand.”