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“A Day of Fallen Night” Is the Most Satisfying Queer and Trans Fantasy Book I’ve Ever Read
The prequel to The Priory of the Orange Tree confirms that Samantha Shannon’s Roots of Chaos series is to queer nerds what The Lord of the Rings is to straight nerds.
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Eight Trans-Inclusive Fantasy Books for Harry Potter Fans
Eight trans-inclusive fantasy books for the Harry Potter fans , from all-gender Quidditch to trans boys summoning ghosts, there’s a book here for every Potterhead!
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8 Speculative Fiction Books by Black Authors about Black Futures for Imagining a New World
At this moment in time with uprisings against anti-Blackness happening in the US and all over the world, it feels urgent to focus on Black authors who are imagining Black futures. Plus, it was Octavia Butler’s birthday on June 22!
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Read A F*cking Book Club: Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower”
Come get dystopian and read “Parable of the Sower” with us!
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Read a F*cking Book Club: Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” Offers Persistence, Painstaking Reality
We finished reading “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler. At its core, the book is about embracing truth and change, which is especially true now — when our world seems much closer to Butler’s science fiction. We’d love for you to talk to us about it!
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8 Great Books About Queer Monstrous Women
“Books about *monstrous women* of all varieties. Softhearted giantesses, feral shapeshifters, malicious sea creatures, lonely gorgons. Women with the strength of gods, women with fangs and fur, women formed of craggy rock or ice or fire.”
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Some Covers of Some Lesbian Sci-Fi Books
When I made a pledge to myself a few years back to only read sci-fi books by or about queer people, I wondered whether the cover art would be subtly queered in the process. The answer, in many cases, was no: it was queered to the absolute max.
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“People Collide” Throws Everything You Thought You Knew About Body Swap Stories out the Window
Isle McElroy’s new novel provides a nuanced approach to gender within its body swap premise.
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“Here Are All My Favorite Delusions, I Hope You Like Them”: Talking to Gabrielle Korn About Queer Dystopian Novel “Yours For The Taking”
“I feel like so much of the theme of ‘straight women idealizing women’ just came from my dark times in women’s media. This idea that if you have a space that’s just women that it’s somehow superior — that just became so funny to me!”
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“The Bruising of Qilwa” Review: A Trans and Queer Fantasy Novella That Packs a Punch
The short book by Naseem Jamnia is an extremely fast-paced, engaging read.
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Dystopian Commentary Bares Its Teeth and Heart in “I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself”
I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to write a responsible dystopia.
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Queer Desire Is Feral in K-Ming Chang’s Bloody, Spitty “Organ Meats”
Here is an expansive tale of inherited and constructed mythology, queer magic, and gothic girlhood.
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“The Third Daughter” Is Sapphic Slow-Burn Fantasy and Feminist Rage
What turned it into an auto-buy was the Post-It note attached to the shelf. A flimsy lime-green placeholder for one of the voicey, detailed recommendation cards that are always tucked around the shop, with three words scrawled on it: “magical furious lesbians.”
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“Yours for the Taking” Review: Matriarchy Won’t Save Us
The novel explores queer romance, corporate feminism, and reimagined community at the end of the world.
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In Lesbian YA Debut, Teen Girls Find Love in the Midst of an Asteroid Barreling Toward Earth
The biggest theme in Jen St. Jude’s If Tomorrow Doesn’t Come is mental health.
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Queer Novella Reimagines Sherlock Holmes and Watson As College Ex-Girlfriends
“The Mimicking of Known Successes” provides a delightful mashup of science fiction and cozy mystery, with a delicious side of sapphic romance.
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“The Daughters of Izdihar” Is Fantastical Queer Feminist Rage
I have seen some angry women in fantasy stories before, but I have never felt the kind of fury pulsating off of them the way I did with queer water-bender Nehal.
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Davey Davis on “X,” True Crime, and the Fantasy of Screwball Comedy
“The thing that gets me about a lot of people’s just criticisms of Fifty Shades of Grey is, as a romance novel, as a ravishment novel, it’s a lot closer to real SM, real sexy pulp, than most.”
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In “Nona the Ninth,” Tamsyn Muir Zooms In on Her Goth Puzzle Box World
If you want to feel the dazzling space-goth world of Gideon and Harrow within reach, to pull it close enough to see its day-to-day details, then Nona will feel like a veritable feast.
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“My Volcano” Is an Abnormal, Bizarre, Exhilarating Novel About a Volcano Suddenly Emerging in Central Park
My Volcano is an abnormal, bizarre, sometimes frustratingly opaque novel — but it’s also one of the most exhilarating ones I’ve read in years.