Bafflement & Devotion: Iris at the Edges (anthology)

Bafflement and Devotion: Iris at the Edges was a charity anthology published by Obverse Books in 2021, collecting seventeen Iris Wildthyme short stories from out of print charity anthologies, some other non-charity Iris Wildthyme anthologies, and some previously lost stories that were released online. As such, some of the stories were unofficial reprints, though the elements owned by people such as Paul Magrs and Cody Schell were used under license.

Unlike other anthologies in the Iris Wildthyme series, which were released for profit, all proceeds from Bafflement and Devotion were donated to the Project Muyembe charity.

Publisher's summary
A blonde in a catsuit flirting with the 8th Doctor, a scruffy old dear exploring a universe hidden in a cupboard in the Bus, the spitting image of the glorious Katy Manning on Neptune with its anatomically extravagant inhabitants, an elderly author of lesbian fiction… Iris has had a lot of faces, and been to a lot of places. She’s been all the way to the edges and back again, so it any wonder some of her adventures have been misplaced over the years, or grown tricky to uncover?

Here, gathered together for the first time ever in a new charity collection, are the Iris stories which appeared in charity anthologies, on convention stages, got lost on old web servers and fell down the back of the sofa… a selection of tales, both old and new, from the very edges of the Obverse…

Cover art

 * The cover featured art by Blair “Baffled” Bidmead, Jay “el Logo Loco” Eales, Paul “Puzzled” Hanley, Bret “Befuddled” M Herholz, June “Discombobulated” Hudson, Jon “Wesley” Huff, Mark “Flummoxed” Manley, Mark “Missed” Michalowski, Cody “Vexed” Schell, Johannes Chazot, Zal Cryptid, and William Oxley.