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Nino Cipri’s “FINNA” Confronts Capitalism and Killer Furniture
FINNA’s protagonists are two exes of less than a week, Jules (they/them) and Ava (she/her), who continue to work at the same godforsaken mega furniture store named LitenVärld, an IKEA approximation in an unknown city and country. A portal to another realm opens up and into it escapes an elderly customer who Jules and Ava must now retrieve, or risk being fired.
Why? Because capitalism.
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Surviving Utopia: Finding Hope in Larissa Lai’s Piercing Novel “The Tiger Flu”
Life – fierce, painful, unyielding, complicated – bursts from every page of The Tiger Flu, which tells a story of love (and hate) between women in a futuristic world overrun by corporate technocracy and the effects of climate change.
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Read a F*cking Book: “The Regulars” is a Feminist Fairy Tale, Kinda
Three twenty-something friends living in New York City accidentally acquire a mysterious liquid substance called Pretty, that, when imbibed, turns the drinker into a physically augmented version of themselves. Shenanigans ensue.
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Read a F*cking Serialized Book: “Tremontaine” Is a Paradise of Queerness and Chocolate
“Every love story is between men who love men, or women who love women, or men and women who love both men and women. The sex is good fun, but the romance is deliriously well-written. Such aching and longing and pining and promises (amid cups and cups of chocolate!).”
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“Pedal Zombies” Is The Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction You Didn’t Know You Needed
“Zombies signify failure — of political will and social cohesion, of technology and medicine, of the human body and soul. These are all topics that are being battled over right now, among people who care about all three worlds that this series occupies: science fiction, feminism, and bicycling.”
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Hidden Gems of Queer Lit: “Fledgling” and Queer Black Vampire Mythology
If you’re interested in seeing the complexities of polyamorous relationships interpreted through the lens of speculative fiction, or in reading a quietly queer sci-fi great’s exploration of sexual fluidity, Fledgling will be up your alley.
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Hidden Gems of Queer Lit: “The Gilda Stories” and Queer Black Vampire Myth
The Gilda Stories was published in 1991 and hasn’t been out of print since — it uses the vampire myth to tackle new themes, including Black American life and queerness.
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Listling: Reasons You Should Read Santa Olivia Immediately
There are lots of reasons to read Santa Olivia. Even if you weren’t peer pressured into doing it for A Camp.
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Book About Futuristic SciFi Lesbian Romance from 1906 Exists
Rachel’s Team Pick: “A Persian astronomer, Abou Shimshek, has found an “ice lens” which allowed him to discover a new planet on which live a race of telepathic, furred, electric-wheel-riding aliens.”