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Are You the Heroine of a Tamora Pierce Novel?
Are you a regular adult human queer person, or have you been the fictional tomboy heroine of a beloved fantasy series this whole time? Only one way to find out.
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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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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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8 Queer High Fantasy Books For Your Epic Sword-Wielding Needs
Like, Guy Gavriel Kay, but queer. Tolkien, but queer. Melanie Rawn, but queer.
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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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8 Queer Speculative Short Story Collections
Love queer speculative fiction but don’t have the time or energy to read novels or series? Then these eight collections and anthologies of queer speculative short fiction are for you!
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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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(Trans) Love and Other Scars: An Interview with Torrey Peters, Author of Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones
“Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones” is the kind that shakes and wakes that brave, mad, dangerous girl I used to be.
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Normal Blood Feelings: 5 Dark (and Sometimes Sexy) Queer Vampire Stories
If witches are a way to tell stories about women and power, vampires are a way to tell stories about women and sex.
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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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Let’s Make “Beyond” The Greatest Queer Sci Fi/Fantasy Comics Anthology Of All Time!
Two queer comic professionals are starting a brand-spanking new anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy comics featuring queer characters and stories. And the best part is, they’re looking for contributions from people like you!
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The Future of Gender Is the Present For Trans* Characters in SciFi Novels
What do the leading names in science fiction tell us about the future of gender?
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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.”
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Top Ten Fantasy Novels That Have Gay People In Them
This is a list of YA fantasy novels that fall somewhere between tangentially gay and really, really gay. They all fall under “read this immediately.”
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Dear Harry Potter, We Are Lesbians And We Love You
Maybe you think it’s stupid because it’s just a book and Harry Potter doesn’t exist. Well, he does for me. And I’m a better person because of it.