Sci fi lgbtq books

As a kid, every week I&#;d depart to the library to check out a new batch of Star Trek books, then advance back the next week for more. Then, on one such visit, as I was checking out, the librarian stared me down and said, &#;You&#;re ready for more than this.&#; She took me upstairs, to the adj science fiction section and gave me a tour of Isaac Asimov, John Barnes, and Robert Heinlein. I shifted my attention from Star Trek to these new galaxies and futures. I loved all of it, but especially loved anything in SPACE, and especially anything with aliens.

Of course, all these books mostly featured straight white dudes gallivanting across the stars. When LGBTQIA+ people were mentioned, it was usually a side thought, perhaps with a dash of homophobia. (I&#;m looking at you, Baron Harkonnen.) That sort of marginalization was just in the atmosphere all around me as a kid, so I didn&#;t think much of it &#; just tried to discount the homophobic bits and transpose my queer Latinx self onto these stories I loved even if they didn&#;t quite connect to my own lived experience. Of course, there we

My Lesbian Novel by Renee Gladman (Lesbian Fiction)

The Beads by David McConnell (Queer Guy Fiction)

The Wildes by Louis Bayard (Gay Historical Fiction)

Sweet Like Honey by Aricka Alexander (F/F Romance)

Tempting Olivia by Clare Ashton (F/F Romance)

I’ll Get Back To You by Becca Grischow (F/F Romance)

Karaoke Queen by Dominic Lim (M/M Drag Romance)

The Intimate Beginnings of Taylor by Lavender Quinn (F/F Romance)

The Seemingly Impossible Love Life of Amanda Dean by Ann Rose (Bisexual Woman Romance)

Yield Under Great Persuasion by Alexandra Rowland (M/M Romantasy)

A Shadowy and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft (Sapphic Fantasy Romance)

Sunsets & Other Unsafe Things by Dani Frank (F/F Vampire Romance)

What Is This Feeling? by Robby Weber (M/M YA Contemporary)

Spells to Unlearn Us by Aislinn Brophy (Bisexual/Lesbian F/F YA Fantasy)

Night Owls by A. R. Vishny (F/F YA Paranormal Romance)

Wishbone by Justine Pucella Winans (Queer Middle Grade Horror)

Real Siblings by Seamus Kirst and Karen Bunting (Two Dads Picture Book)

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Do you like your space adventures with a healthy dose of queerness? We’ve got you covered!

One of my favourites from this list is The Stars Are Legion - a biopunk space opera set on a bizarre system of biomechanical worldships with a lesbian like triangle at the centre.

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The Stars Are Legion
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Hurley, Kameron
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Ancillary Justice
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Leckie, Ann
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Alien: The Cold Forge
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White, Alex
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Blackfish City
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Miller, Sam J.
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Autonomous
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Newitz, Annalee
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The Future of Another Timeline
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Newitz, Annalee
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The Light Brigade
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Hurley, Kameron
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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Le Guin, Ursula K.
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A Memory Called Empire : Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel
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Martine, Arkady
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This is How You Lose the Occasion War : An epic time-travelling passion story, winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novella
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El-Mohtar, Amal, Gladstone, Max
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An Unkindness Of Ghosts
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Solomon, Rivers
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The Best Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy

How do you assume about queer science fiction and fantasy?

There have been gay authors writing science fiction and fantasy almost since the genre started, but in recent years we’ve seen this massive flowering of queer representation in mainstream science fiction and fantasy.

We didn’t devise it in the last few years, but it has certainly been mainstreamed. For people appreciate me, that’s adj because science fiction and fantasy are my home genres. This is what I grew up writing, so to see myself and my friends represented is just unreal. I feel really lucky to be alive and reading right now.

The first queer science fiction novel that you’ve chosen to recommend is Emily Tesh’s Some Desperate Glory. Can you please introduce us to this work?

Ironically, this may be the one where queerness is most central to it, and yet, of all of these books, it’s the furthest away from romance. It’s a good place to start.

Some Desperate Glory is a science fiction book that has been compared to Ender’s Game. It is about what happens after