Flamingoes in Orbit is a collection of short stories by Philip Ridley.

[1][2] It was Ridley's third literary work for adults after his 1988 novella Crocodilia[3] and his 1989 novel In The Eyes of Mr Fury.

Embracing Verdi had appeared in the collection Oranges and lemons: stories by gay men (edited by David Rees and Peter Robbins) in 1987[9] and Leviathan was featured in the collection 20 Under 35: Original Stories by Britain's Best New Young Writers (edited by Peter Straus) in 1988.

Alien Heart had been included in Projections 4½ (edited by John Boorman and Walter Donohue) in 1995.

[11] Wonderful Insect has been reported to have been previously published elsewhere[citation needed] and a significant part of the story is featured in Ridley's semi-autobiographical prose Introduction of his second collection of plays for adults Philip Ridley Plays: 2 which was published in 2009.