Results for: queer sci-fi books
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Malinda Lo on Her Historic National Book Award Win and Lesbian Literature’s History and Future
Malinda Lo talks about writing queerness in different genres, butch/femme dynamics in literature, and the gay Macy’s of the 1960s that didn’t make it into her book.
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Grace Lavery on Her New Memoir “Please Miss,” Sex Writing, and the Trans Glamour of Nicole Kidman
“When one is trying to write about sex, if you’re doing it right, something happens in the prose that is unpredictable and kind of wild.”
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67 of the Best Queer Books of 2020
2020 was terrible in every way except for queer books. There were so many amazing queer books published this year! Here are 67 of the best of them.
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“Everybody (Else) Is Perfect,” Gabrielle Korn’s Debut Essay Collection, Examines the Media World She Helped Create
“Everybody (Else) Is Perfect” is a bold and complicated meditation on media, feminism, and the internet, written from the perspective of a thoughtful and deeply honest insider. It is also very, very gay.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Boredom Banana Bread
The relationships between boredom, work, art, pandemic, and banana bread; the bourgeois romance of pandemic isolation; read books about “disreputable women” by women writers and more.
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8 Queer Sci-Fi Books To Read Right Now
From hard and soft sci-fi to military sci-fi to space opera: here are eight (gay) books you should add to your reading list.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Running on Queer Time
What do we do with unthinkable thoughts in the time of covid? Plus: how crime fiction enables police brutality, zines and self-discovery, celebrating the Clueless anniversary, every book you’ll want to read for the next five months and more.
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In “SFSX,” Tina Horn Builds a Purity-Obsessed Sci-Fi Vision of our Dystopian Present
Autostraddle recently spoke with Tina Horn via video call to chat about the first volume of SFSX, her myriad influences, building community around art, the sex worker rights’ movement, and incels.
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Meet The Writers Of Best Lesbian Erotica Vol. 5
Six contributors to Best Lesbian Erotica Volume 5 tell us about how they think about erotica as queer writers. The book came out on Dec 8, so can get your personal and gift copies in time for the holidays.
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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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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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8 Great Space Operas with Queer Women and Non-Binary Characters
Now is a great time to escape to outer space, don’t you think?
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8 Amazing Audiobooks About Queer Women
The following 8 books are mind-blowingly good fiction audiobooks about queer women. I’m talking incredible voice acting that takes the story to a whole other level.
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8 Queer Halloween Reads for Your Gay Spooky Needs
Here are 8 queer books appropriate for the Halloween season, from the genuinely terrifying to funny and lightly macabre.
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8 Great Trans Fantasy Novels
Eight excellent fantasy novels with trans main characters coming your way!
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Tomboys of Literature: An Incomplete Survey
A subjective beginning exploration into the far-reaching but inconsistent landscape of literary tomboys.
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20 New Books by or About Queer Women to Read This Spring
Here are 20 novels, YA titles, memoirs, poetry collections, and more that we think you’ll absolutely love. What are you excited about reading this spring?
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8 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books with Queer Poly Relationships
8 great queer women-focused poly SF/F books coming right up!
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Lez Liberty Lit: Cannot Resist the Urge to Clean
An everyday trans literature, discipline and creative freedom, fall books previews, lesbian feminist sci-fi and more.
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8 Fiction Books with Non-Binary Characters
Can you believe we haven’t talked about books with non-binary characters yet? Here are eight great ones, mostly written by non-binary authors.