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The Best Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy

How do you think 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 invent it in the last scant years, but it has certainly been mainstreamed. For people like me, that’s amazing because science fiction and fantasy are my home genres. This is what I grew up writing, so to spot myself and my friends represented is just astonishing. I feel really blessed 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 present 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 commence.

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

Queer Adult SFF Tribute Guide!

The Sol Majestic by Ferrett Steinmetz:
&#; lgbtq+ male MC (and romance!)
&#; sumptuous feast of a book
&#; srsly Kitchen Wars but enjoy, in spaceA Choir of Lies by Alexandra Rowland:
&#; Gay MC, queernorm world
&#; Stories possess power!!
&#; Fantasy tulip maniaSilver in the Wood by Emily Tesh:
&#; Gay MC, m/m relationship
&#; all my exes are in the trees whoops
&#; One bed trope, but it doesn&#;t go as expected
&#; Sweetly sad, good for a drizzly day and then a looong saunter in the nearby woodsThe Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht:
&#; Homosexual MC, m/m relationship
&#; Pretty hot if you&#;re into gore
&#; Everybody&#;s awful and I adoration it
&#; Sexy, spooky, fucked up in the best waysLord of Secrets by Breanna Teintze:
&#; FAB QUEER NECROMANCER
&#; f/m main, but very important m/m relationship
&#; Bone monstrosities
&#; Operation adventure, good for a binge readAlice Payne Rides by Kate Heartfield:
&#; f/f lead romance
&#; steampunk time-travel shenanigans
&#; story about family ❤ and th

Lindsay

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Do you like your cosmos 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 devotion 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 Period War : An epic time-travelling devotion 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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If you were disappointed by the very brief kiss scene in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalkerdespite promises of queer visibility, you&#;re not alone. But luckily, the sci-fi genre has plenty of novels to choose from where queer characters play an integral role in the story. We&#;ve put together a list of 15 sci-fi novels with prominent LGBTQ representation. Whether you&#;re in the mood for a ragtag spaceship crew, queer superheroes living their best lives, or even a love story between time-traveling secret agents, we&#;ve got you covered with these LGBTQ science fiction books.

The Finest LGBTQ Science Fiction Books

The Extended Way to a Small, Furious Planet by Becky Chambers

Rosemary Harper jumps at the chance to join the ragtag crew of the Wayfarer. Traveling through cosmos has been her life&#;s aspire , and even though the ship has seen better days, she&#;s just happy to be along for the ride. When her crew is offered a career to tunnel wormholes through room, however, she soon discovers that her new life is more dangerous than she thought. It will take bravery, trust, and hard work