Most of the books and stories that Otherwise Award jurors read to pick a winner are nominated by authors and readers. We need your suggestions. If you’ve read a work of science fiction or fantasy that explores or expands our notions of gender, please tell us about it by filling out the recommendation form below. If you have more than one, just fill out the form again with a new recommendation and repeat the process until you’ve told us about them all.
Recommendations close on the 1st of December, 2018. Because recommendations are accepted from everyone, and haven’t been reviewed by the jury, we request that nominated creators not publicize their appearance on this list: if you win, or your work shows up on an honor list or long list, please publicize to your heart’s content!
The 2018 Otherwise Award will be given in 2019, location to be determined.
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| Author | Title | Publisher | Comments | Sub Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dorian Graves | Bones and Bourbon | NineStar Press | This book includes a transgender protagonist in a gay relationship for the entirety of the book, a body-hopping necromancer used to inhabiting bodies of multiple genders, and casual LGBT+ content amongst the cast.a.co/d/1bwosjr | 2018-12-01 17:54:08 | |
| Alexandra Rowland | A Conspiracy of Truths | Saga Press | 2018-12-01 10:22:39 | ||
| Kate Heartfield | Armed in her Fashion | Chizine Publications | A Breugel painting come to life, ARMED IN HER FASHION follows an angry widow, her love-besotted daughter, and a transgender soldier through war-torn Flanders. The Chatelaine of Hell is sending an Army of Chimeras and Undead corpses out into the countryside but the Widow de Vos is determined to get the widow's portion due to her under Flemish law. Fantastic historical fantasy that upends the usual "knight in shining armour" trope by focusing on motherly love, anger, revenge, and a soldier's desire to be true to himself and his profession. | 2018-11-30 18:19:56 | |
| Aliya Whiteley | The Loosening Skin | Unsung Stories | A deeply intimate and emotionally focused piece of speculative fiction about love, identity, and the relationships between growth and change. Featuring polyamory, and centred around a female lead who is under constant sufferance of people's expectations of her - including the distorted love of a famous, powerful man, it offers a gentle, but powerful deconstruction of the strange, and powerful spaces of love. How impossible it can be to truly communicate ourselves, and the terrible things we can do to each other as a consequence. Stylistically and formally challenging, subtle and subversive in its use of genre, a unique book.unsungstories.co.uk/skin | 2018-11-30 16:36:37 | |
| Tori Curtis | Upon Your Marriage to a Redcap | Iridium Zine | iridiumzine.com/2018/03/23/upon-your-mar… | 2018-11-30 15:28:44 | |
| Tori Curtis | You Inside Me | Glittership | glittership.com/2018/07/04/episode-57-yo… | 2018-11-30 15:26:21 | |
| Joanna Noor | Storming the Barbarian's Gates: An Epically Naughty Sci-Fantasy Novella (A World of Khymeera Story Book 1) | Forty Lashes Press | Storming the Barbarian's Gates is pure pulp fantasy erotica. It has all the classic trappings of Robert E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, and even John Norman, right down to the language and the atmosphere, but with a very modern sense of kink. What is so exciting about this is the way that Joanna Noor plays with gender and sexuality, showing them to be naturally fluid and adaptable to change - once, of course, masculine pride and macho prejudices are dispensed with. There is some violence at the outset, along with some questions of dubious consent - both of which are entirely fitting for a pulp sword-and-sorcery tale - but there is also genuine pleasure in the climax. | 2018-11-30 11:32:09 | |
| Mike Hembury | New Clone City | The Wild Word | This is a book that flirts with some uncomfortable terminology at times, and which is frustratingly inconsistent with its choice of pronouns, but it is never cruel or mean-spirited. Instead, those seeming miscues are part and parcel of the book's punk, in-your-face, I-dare-you-to-get-mad edginess. Gender and sexuality are a critical part of the book, and not just as a good-queer versus evil-straight fairy tale, which makes it even more interesting. New Clone City does have a story - a conflict/conspiracy, a resistance, and a feminine Church that has nothing to do with god(s) - but it is more a story of characters, a slice of life through which we see friendships tested, love found, and principles defended. | 2018-11-30 11:28:34 | |
| Stephanie Burgis | Spellswept | Five Fathoms Press | A fantasy alternative history set in an England, with an original revisioning of gender roles. | 2018-11-29 08:50:29 | |
| Yi-Sheng Ng | Lion City | Epigram | Title story of collection available at link above. Link to publisher of collection is https://shop.epigrambooks.sg/products/lion-citycdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0550/0041/file… | 2018-11-29 06:40:55 | |
| Nicky Drayden | TEMPER | Harper Collins | 2018-11-28 17:35:52 | ||
| Alvaro Zinos-Amaro | Shades of Void | Laksa Media Groups Inc. | Being different doesn't mean to have a lonely existence: an AI-amplified gay man takes courage to cross the boundary to find love, heartbreak, and appreciation of life. Published in "Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders" edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law.amazon.com/shades-within-migrations-frac… | 2018-11-27 13:05:00 | |
| Jordy Rosenberg | Confessions of the Fox | One World | jordy-rosenberg.com/confessionsofthefox/ | 2018-11-26 17:15:31 | |
| Annalee Flower Horne | Carborundorum > /dev/null | Fireside Fiction | Short story published in Fireside Magazinefiresidefiction.com/carborundorum-dev-nu… | 2018-11-26 12:14:29 | |
| Hanna-Pirita Lehkonen | The Immortal Nerd | A sweet and humorous webcomic with flexible gender identity and sexuality as an unremarked background assumption. webtoons.com/en/comedy/immortal-nerd/lis… | 2018-11-26 12:08:00 | ||
| Blue Delliquanti | O Human Star | Self-published webcomic/now available in two paperback volumes) | Great explorations of gender/identity.ohumanstar.com/comic/ | 2018-11-26 11:54:56 | |
| Azure Husky | Ghosts | self | This work of speculative fiction, told as a thread of posts on Twitter, is a lovely, sweet story about vulnerability, gender, and friendship.twitter.com/azure_husky/status/106055514… | 2018-11-26 11:30:34 | |
| Kate Heartfield | Alice Payne Arrives | Tor.com | 2018-11-26 09:21:16 | ||
| Theodora Goss | European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman | Saga Press | 2018-11-26 09:19:17 | ||
| Tyler Keevil | Voices | Laksa Media Groups Inc. | A story about a father trying to protect his son, who is bullied for not following conventional gender norms. It blends questions of identity, family, and neurodivergence, all while questioning toxic gender norms. Published in "Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders" edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law. | 2018-11-25 22:50:41 | |
| Heather Osborne | From the Shoals of Broken Cities | Laksa Media Groups Inc. | This story centers on the conflict between a genetically engineered gay man and his father in a divided underwater community. Published in "Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders" edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law. | 2018-11-25 22:23:50 | |
| Tamara Veitch Rene DeFazio | The Emissary (The One Great Year Book 1) | Waterside Productions | When the world collapses from a Golden Age into one of chaos and strife, mankind’s salvation lies in the hands of eternal Emissaries — guardians chosen to protect the secrets of a sacred, ancient civilization and to guide humanity back to enlightenment even as its darkest hour approaches… A timeless tale of love reborn through the ages. Marcus has past life memory and his soulmate Theron does not, but the two lovers are bound by an eternal and unshakable bond. As a series of catastrophic events nearly destroys their world, the two along with a chosen few become Emissaries destined, over the course of 13,000 years and through many reincarnations, to lead humanity into an era of peace and prosperity as foretold by the Elders of their race. But the forces of evil have taken possession of one man, Helghul, who relentlessly pursues Marcus and Theron through time, determined to destroy them and ruin all hope for salvation. The Emissary, Book I in The One Great Year Series, tracks Marcus’s epic adventure across centuries of human civilization to present day, where envoys of darkness gather around them threatening to bury the life-giving secrets of Atitala forever. Good and evil come to blows and the future of mankind hangs in the balance. “For every soul there is a theme, a path that must be followed, lessons that must be learned…” authorcentral.amazon.com/gp/books/book-d… | 2018-11-25 16:15:27 | |
| Ana Mardoll | No Man of Woman Born | Acacia Moon Publishing | A collection of stories, each a retelling of fairy tales with trans, genderqueer, and non binary characters. Also uses neopronouns in many stories. | 2018-11-22 02:56:56 | |
| Rita IndianaAchy Obejas (translator) | Tentacle | And Other Stories | Can't do any better than the back cover blurb: "an electric novel with a big appetite and a brave vision, plunging headfirst into questions of climate change, technology, Yoruba ritual, queer politics, poverty, sex, colonialism, and contemporary art". Confronting in places, liberating in others. Not a neat or tidy story. | 2018-11-21 16:08:12 | |
| Candas Jane Dorsey | Ice and Other Stories | PS Publishing Ltd | pspublishing.co.uk/ice--other-stories-ha… | 2018-11-20 05:04:41 | |
| Cecil Castellucci | SHADE, THE CHANGING GIRL VOL. 2: LITTLE RUNAWAY | DC Entertainment | dccomics.com/graphic-novels/shade-the-ch… | 2018-11-19 14:33:11 | |
| LH MooreChesya Burke | Peregrination | Written Backwards | A co-written novelette in the Chiral Mad 4 anthology, edited by Sean Michael Bailey and Lucy A Snyder. | 2018-11-18 07:00:17 | |
| Elly BlueTuere T.S. GangesGretchin LairAyame WhitfieldJulia K. PattElly BangsOsahon Ize-IyamuMonique CuillerierKat LernerHella GrichiSummer Jewel Keown | Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories | Elly Blue Publishing / Microcosm Publishing | This is the fifth feminist bicycle science fiction anthology I've edited in the Bikes in Space series. The idea for the series was sparked by my wish to read more fantastical and speculative fiction that isn't powered by fossil fuels or patriarchal stereotypes.microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/books/85… | 2018-11-16 08:25:29 | |
| Rosamund SmallAndrea Donaldson | TomorrowLove | Small's script of TomorrowLove is several years old (and seems to have been overlooked at the time.) I am drawing to your attention University Theatre and Performance program's staging of it under director Donaldson, whose run is currently on-going. https://uwaterloo.ca/communication-arts/performances/dramaturgy-and-archives/tomorrowlove-dramaturgy-hub I can arrange a videolink if you contact me at jdnicoll@panix.com | 2018-11-15 13:11:49 | ||
| Tom Sweterlitsch | The Gone World | G.P. Putnam's Sons | The protagonist is a woman who is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, who investigates crime with time travel and exploring alternate realities and planets. She is a brilliant, tough, and courageous agent who turns traditional gender notions upside down. netgalley.com/widget/164357/redeem/67828… | 2018-11-14 14:30:23 | |
| Aliette de Bodard | In the Vanishers' Palace | JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc | 2018-11-13 14:00:42 | ||
| Ana Simo | Heartland | Restless Books | 2018-11-12 19:59:05 | ||
| Kristin Landon | Windhome | Candlemark & Gleam | 2018-11-12 19:54:04 | ||
| Cristina Rivera Garza | The Taiga Syndrome | Dorothy | (originally published in 2012 in Spanish; first English publication this year.) A strange detached fairy tale, a little Yuri Herrera, a little "Hansel and Gretel". An ex-detective is recruited by an abandoned husband to find his wife and her lover, who have fled to the taiga, which infects everyone who resides in it with a mysterious disease. The detective and her translator pursue the lovers through forests and small villages, glimpsing strangeness: wolves, dolls, homunculi, food, sex. | 2018-11-11 12:09:52 | |
| Cadwell Turnbull | Other Worlds and This One | Asimov'/Lightspeed | Loved this story's examination of toxic masculinity, family, and physics. lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/other-wor… | 2018-11-10 07:15:04 | |
| Andrew Wilmot | The Death Scene Artist | Wolsak & Wynn | The book obfuscates the protagonist's gender as a means of discussing aspects of dysphoria that are so often tied to that toxic cocktail of body dysmorphia and physical envy (of the "other"—of everything you aren't but wish you were). It's an epistolary narrative, and uses said form to create misdirection for both the reader and the protagonist's sense of self. Predominantly horror and surrealism, with elements of science fiction throughout.bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the-… | 2018-11-09 14:01:58 | |
| Claudie Arseneault | Baker Thief | Self-Published | 2018-11-08 19:41:49 | ||
| A.E. Prevost | Sandals Full of Rainwater | Capricious: Gender Diverse Pronoun Issue | capricioussf.org/issue-9-gender-diverse-… | 2018-11-08 14:11:42 | |
| Emrys Donaldson | The Albatrosses | Fairy Tale Review | fairytalereview.com/charcoal/ | 2018-11-08 13:48:27 | |
| Ava Kelly | How to Trick a Trickster | LessThanThree Press | Part of the "Fool for You" Anthology.avakellyfiction.com/how-to-trick-a-trick… | 2018-11-08 10:22:08 | |
| K.M. Szpara | "You Can Make a Dinosaur But You Can't Help Me" | Uncanny Magazine | Szpara deftly explores gender and the layers of acceptance in a world which cleverly riffs off the Jurassic Park franchise. The story's imaginative use of the 2nd person POV grounds the reader firmly in the perspective of the protagonist, making his experience of dysphoria viscerally our own. But while it deals frankly with emotional pain and familial disappointment, its central romance is an uplifting portrayal of a supportive and deeply loving relationship between two trans characters, and a believable happily ever after. uncannymagazine.com/article/you-can-make… | 2018-11-08 09:43:12 | |
| Anna-Marie McLemore | Blanca & Roja | Feiwel & Friends | As a nonbinary person, I found that while not quite like my own nonbinariness, reading about a nonbinary person was refreshing, and I felt like McLemore did a good job of portraying the inner experience of being nonbinary as well as the outer experience of how people saw and related to the character. | 2018-11-08 08:08:51 | |
| Emma Osborne | Don't Pack Hope | Nightmare | A trans guy packs what he'll need to flee a zombie horde.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/dont-pack… | 2018-11-07 21:20:53 | |
| Debbie Urbanski | Some Person Arguments In Support of the BetterYou (Based On Early Interactions) | Strange Horizons | An older married asexual and her (non-asexual) husband decide to bring a BetterYou into their home in an attempt to save their marriage and keep their family together. strangehorizons.com/fiction/some-persona… | 2018-11-06 05:22:08 | |
| Nino Cipri | Odontogenesis | Fireside Fiction | firesidefiction.com/odontogenesis | 2018-11-05 19:12:57 | |
| Nino Cipri | Dead Air | Nightmare Magazine | nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/dead-air/ | 2018-11-05 19:09:27 | |
| Jose Pablo Iriarte | The Substance of My Lives, The Accidents of Our Births | Lightspeed Magazine | lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/substance… | 2018-11-05 18:18:53 | |
| Jess Barber | "You and Me and the Deep Dark Sea" | Upper Rubber Boot | In SUNVAULT anthology | 2018-11-05 16:35:56 | |
| Christian Felt | The Lightning Jar | The University of Iowa Press | uipress.uiowa.edu/books/9781609386009/th… | 2018-11-05 09:12:50 | |
| IONA SHARMA | Penhallow Amid Passing Things | 2018-11-05 00:29:00 | |||
| Cynthia Ward | Body Drift | Analog Magazine | Nov/Dec 2018 Issue Nontraditional science fiction story of a multi-gendered far future. An hommage to Frederik Pohl's gender-bending 1966 story, "Day Million." | 2018-10-28 12:04:56 | |
| Catherine Dousteyssier-KhozeTina Kover (translator) | The Beauty of the Death Cap | Snuggly Books | 2018-10-27 20:48:53 | ||
| Ursula Pflug | Down From | Snuggly Books | 2018-10-27 20:43:58 | ||
| Berit Ellingsen | Now We Can See the Moon | Snuggly Books | 2018-10-27 20:42:09 | ||
| Various VariousEdited by Rivqa Rafael & Tansy Rayner Roberts | Mother of Invention | Twelfth Planet Press | Knit robots, build spaceships, and shape the future. Extraordinary short stories about gender, artificial intelligence and the art of building something new. Mother of Invention features the work of Seanan McGuire, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Nisi Shawl, John Chu, Justina Robson and more. A speculative fiction anthology of diverse, challenging stories about gender and artificial intelligence.twelfthplanetpress.com/products/antholog… | 2018-10-26 06:13:31 | |
| Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam | The Crow Knight | Beneath Ceaseless Skies | beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-… | 2018-10-25 12:06:26 | |
| Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam | The Men Who Come From Flowers | Fantasy & Science Fiction | Explores toxic masculinity through fairy tale metaphor | 2018-10-25 12:04:42 | |
| Melissa Scott | Finders | Candlemark & Gleam | I read the ARC. An excellent novel. Feminism, gender roles, polyamory, and queerness examined in a star-spanning future so distant, the technology is nearly indistinguishable from magic. (Based on everything I've read by Melissa Scott over the decades, it's probable any fiction she publishes in any year should be considered for the Tiptree Award.)goodreads.com/book/show/41541514-finders | 2018-10-24 10:56:31 | |
| Sonya Taaffe | Forget the Sleepless Shores | Lethe Press | lethepressbooks.com/store/p534/forget_th… | 2018-10-23 13:27:31 | |
| Robert J Power | Spark City | DePaor Press | In Spark City, women are strong warriors, the dominant sex of the species and rulers of the world. Unlike many other novels, the female characters do not need to face traumatic/life changing events in order to become strong characters. They are simply that - strong characters, with the ability to fight and match any man in battle. Gender is not an issue or a weakness in this book from any side. There is simply warriors, Alphas.amazon.com/spark-city-book-one-cycle-ebo… | 2018-10-23 11:15:58 | |
| Julie Day | Uncommon Miracles | PS Publishing | pspublishing.co.uk/uncommon-miracles-har… | 2018-10-17 16:55:08 | |
| Cristina Jurado | ALPHALAND | Nevsky Books | Otherness is the idea that permeates all these speculative stories, full of characters troubled by the misconstruction of their identities, and in permanent search for answers in the margins of reality. From upgraded humans to individuals living among daydreams, from monsters to fantastic beings, these creatures populate a highly imaginative and evocative world, impregnated by an inspired sense of wonder. Draw near with care and enter Alphaland!nevskybooks.com/collections/frontpage/pr… | 2018-10-13 09:14:28 | |
| K.D. Edwards | The Last Sun | Pyr Books | This book builds a complex bisexual community. At one point the world is described as (something like) "finding 100% homosexuality as unique as 100% straight" in that "everyone is bi, etc" Loved it! So thoughtful!amazon.com/last-sun-tarot-sequence/dp/16… | 2018-10-01 08:06:44 | |
| Wayétu Moore | She Would Be King | Macmillan | 2018-09-28 07:08:26 | ||
| Tasha Suri | Empire of Sand | Orbit | already requested | 2018-09-27 16:18:33 | |
| Alex White | Bad Deal for the Whole Galaxy | Orbit | already requested | 2018-09-27 16:17:50 | |
| N.K. Jemisin | How Long Til Black Future Month | Orbit | requested already | 2018-09-27 16:16:48 | |
| Wade Kitchen | Mr. | 2018-09-26 18:27:40 | |||
| Jeanne G'Fellers | Cleaning House | Mountain Gap Books | Cleaning House – a Contemporary Appalachian Fantasy, should be considered for a James Tiptree, Jr. Award for numerous reasons, the most important being its examination of gender and sexual identity, its diversity, its sharing of the queer Appalachian experience, and the blending of faith and traditions within the story. Cleaning House is about family (both of choosing and of origin) and standing up for what you believe is right, no matter how many times it takes to get it right. It’s a deeply spiritual novel of both gender and sexual identity laced with history, magic, a sense of whimsy, and love for the ancient Appalachian mountains where the story is set.amazon.com/dp/b07d46pjv9/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p… | 2018-09-22 19:33:27 | |
| Tillie Walden | On A Sunbeam | First Second | 2018-09-20 19:34:04 | ||
| Sionnain Buckley | The Spider Mom | The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought | theaccountmagazine.com/article/buckley-s… | 2018-09-19 07:40:47 | |
| Su Wei | Invisible Valley | Small Beer Press | 2018-09-18 14:57:13 | ||
| Claire Coleman | Terra Nullius | Small Beer Press | 2018-09-18 14:54:51 | ||
| L. Timmel Duchamp | Chercher la Femme | Aqueduct | 2018-09-18 14:44:38 | ||
| Toby Macnutt | If Not, Skin | Aqueduct | 2018-09-18 14:43:56 | ||
| Alex Dally Macfarlane | Feed Me the Bones Of Our Saints | Aqueduct | already sent out to jury | 2018-09-18 14:42:45 | |
| NA YossDavid Frye translator | Condomnauts | Restless Books | based on locus review | 2018-09-16 10:33:47 | |
| James Beamon | "Three Meetings of the Pregnant Men's Support Group" | Apex | apex-magazine.com/three-meetings-of-the-… | 2018-09-16 10:31:19 | |
| Abbey Mei Otis | Alien Virus Love Disaster: Stories | Small Beer Press | smallbeerpress.com/books/2018/08/14/alie… | 2018-09-14 09:17:57 | |
| Maria Dahvana Headley | The Mere Wife | MCD | 2018-09-11 13:46:59 | ||
| Daniel Mallory Ortberg | The Merry Spinster, Tales of Everyday Horror | Henry Holt | The first edition lists the author's name as Mallory Ortberg, but the name has changed as the writer transitioned. There is just a lot of interesting gender work in these re-envisioned fairy tales. | 2018-09-09 06:00:29 | |
| Petra Kuppers | Ice Bar | Spuyten Duyvil | Petra Kuppers’ Ice Bar is a lush and startling collection which often defies clean genre categories, blending apocalyptic futurism, fantasy, myth, steampunk, magical realism, and more. Kuppers’ poetic prose moves viscerally quick with its rich description and surreal details that leave you balancing on the edge of reality and something, somewhere else—a dream, a hallucination, a false memory. Importantly, the worlds of Kuppers’ stories are worlds with not only mermaids, ghosts and other non-human beings, but also worlds full of disabled people, queer people, and people of color whose narratives are not about their disability, sexuality, gender, or race alone. The politics of the texts are clear, yet unobtrusive, integrated into not merely content, but also the aesthetics of the collection. Take the plunge and escape into the ever-shifting worlds of Ice Bar. -- Sami Schalk, author of Bodyminds Reimagined | 2018-09-08 05:25:25 | |
| JD Scott | Where Parallel Lines Come to Touch | Cicada Magazine (Cricket Media) | A coming-of-age story about a young woman and her twin brother, who returns from the dead during red tide season on an island.cicadamag.s3.amazonaws.com/cic1809_paral… | 2018-09-05 15:14:47 | |
| Nicoletta ValloraniRachel Cordasco (translator) | The Catalog of Virgins | Clarkesworld Magazine | clarkesworldmagazine.com/vallorani_11_17… | 2018-08-29 11:17:53 | |
| Gabriela Damián MiraveteAdrian Demopulos (translator) | They Will Dream in the Garden | Latin American Literature Today | latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/en/2018… | 2018-08-29 11:14:56 | |
| Christina Dalcher | Vox | Berkley | based on review, book seems relevant | 2018-08-27 10:28:30 | |
| Leni Zumas | Red Clocks | Little, Brown & Co | good content, well written, enough SF? | 2018-08-18 08:15:13 | |
| Becky Chambers | Record of a Spaceborn Few | Harper | Already sent | 2018-08-16 14:41:25 | |
| Naomi Novik | Spinning Silver | Del Rey | 2018-08-16 14:08:36 | ||
| Joamette Gil | Immortal Souls: Power & Magic #2 | P&M Press | already received by jury-- | 2018-08-16 14:06:38 | |
| P Djeli Clark | Black God's Drums | tor.com | 2018-08-16 13:52:39 | ||
| Audrey Schulman | Theory of Bastards | Europa Editions | "As does much science fiction, “Theory of Bastards” takes place in an extreme version of the world we already live in. Special implants now allow people to be constantly connected to the Web. Destructive super viruses called poly-roaches periodically shut down entire digital networks. Electrical brownouts have grown common, travel advisories widespread. War continues in Syria and the Middle East. Cities on the coasts and along major rivers flood all the time. Dust storms last for days and large numbers of children are diagnosed with respiratory diseases. 3-D printers even turn lumps of edible plastic into ersatz fruits and vegetables infused with necessary nutrients. Meanwhile, books have vanished from public libraries and fewer people know how to repair broken machines. Prices have skyrocketed."—Michael Dirda, The Washington Posteuropaeditions.com/book/9781609454371/th… | 2018-08-15 05:27:15 | |
| Jen Wang | The Prince and the Dressmaker | First Second | The Prince and the Dressmaker is a graphic novel - you could call it YA because the protagonists are older teens - about a 19th/early 20th century prince in Paris who sees the young, poor dressmaker's work at a ball and asks her to become employed by the castle, becoming his personal dressmaker - and he becomes, at night and in secret, Lady Crystallia, belle of fashion across the city. Meanwhile, his parents are pressuring him to find a princess to marry, and a rich merchant family is about to open the city's first department store. | 2018-08-10 09:44:28 | |
| Janelle Monae | Dirty Computer | 2018-08-09 12:33:11 | |||
| Alan Chin | Surviving Immortality | DSP Publishers | dsppublications.com/books/surviving-immo… | 2018-08-03 17:35:49 | |
| Juliet Kemp | A Glimmer of Silver | Book Smugglers Publishing | ebook or paperbark available for judges | 2018-08-02 05:14:37 | |
| Sara Fox | When the Letter Comes | Book Smugglers Publishing | short storythebooksmugglers.com/2018/05/when-the-le… | 2018-08-02 05:12:08 | |
| Tessa Gratton | Strange Grace | SS/Margaret K McElderry | 2018-07-30 08:53:38 | ||
| Kelly Vero | Prince of Tokyo | FeedARead | In an age when fashion and aesthetics are way more important than life itself, it's exciting to wonder how we might survive. We’re transported into the future with stories of love, loss and the last vestiges of human life as we know it. This female-fronted collection of short stories is a thought-provoking and a spine-tingling vision of tomorrow… if it ever comes. From finding the perfect man to finding the perfect outfit for the ultimate red carpet, this book is packed full of ass-kicking action, tall tales from skyscrapers and love songs for the dead. Dive in, but don’t have nightmares. I LOVED THIS BOOK SO MUCH!amazon.com/dp/b07cnd17cg | 2018-07-23 04:42:24 | |
| Kameron Hurley | Apocalypse Nyx | Tachyon | 2018-07-23 04:42:07 | ||
| Dessa Lux | Omega Required | 2018-07-22 04:05:09 | |||
| Ashleigh Schmidt | Where After Is | LT3 | 2018-07-17 14:28:51 | ||
| Katy Williams | Song of Sir Chaucey | LT3 | 2018-07-17 14:28:13 | ||
| Reece Pine | Silksmith's Girl | LT3 | 2018-07-17 14:27:37 | ||
| Minerva Cerridwen | Dragon of Ynys | LT3 | 2018-07-17 14:27:02 | ||
| Lin Darrow | Pyre at the Eyreholm Trust | LT3 | 2018-07-17 14:26:23 | ||
| Kain Jensen | Ocean Ghosts | LT3 | 2018-07-17 14:24:25 | ||
| Roan Hart | Opalescence | LT3 | 2018-07-17 14:23:22 | ||
| Lotus Oakes | Hold Fast the Knight | LT3 | 2018-07-17 14:21:41 | ||
| Andrea Loredo | Choice | LT3 | 2018-07-17 14:21:10 | ||
| Rachel Frank | Beast | LT3 | 2018-07-17 14:20:39 | ||
| Stephanie Rabig | Winterbourne's Daughter | LT3 | 2018-07-17 14:20:10 | ||
| Nicole Field | Last American Hero | LT3 | 2018-07-17 14:19:33 | ||
| Kate Owen | Once Bitten | LT3 | 2018-07-17 14:16:54 | ||
| Irene Wendy Wode | Tabitha | LT3 | 2018-07-17 14:14:24 | ||
| Megan Derr | Heart of the Lost Star | LT3 | 2018-07-17 14:13:47 | ||
| Austin Chant | Peter Darling | LT3 | 2018-07-17 14:13:20 | ||
| Isobelle Winter | Dangerous Times | LT3 | 2018-07-17 14:12:48 | ||
| Sydney Blackburn | Cabaret Rollo Rouge | LT3 | 2018-07-17 14:12:12 | ||
| Meredith Katz | Barred Souls | LT3 | 2018-07-17 14:10:57 | ||
| Archer Kay Leah | Blood Borne | LT3 | 2018-07-17 14:10:30 | ||
| S. Gates | Alonso Munich is Now Dead | LT3 | 2018-07-17 14:09:53 | ||
| JY Yang | Descent of Monsters | tor.com | GT already requested | 2018-07-17 13:04:54 | |
| Kelly Robson | Gods Monsters and the Lucky Peach | tor.com | GT already requested | 2018-07-17 13:04:18 | |
| Brooke Bolander | Only Harmless Great Thing | tor.com | GT already requested | 2018-07-17 13:03:02 | |
| Seanan McGuire | In An Absent Dream | Tor.com | GT requested already | 2018-07-17 13:02:22 | |
| John Kessel | Pride and Prometheus | Saga | 2018-07-16 23:26:22 | ||
| Alex White | A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe | Orbit | 2018-07-16 23:21:37 | ||
| Rebecca Roanhorse | Trail of Lightning | Saga | 2018-07-16 23:19:34 | ||
| C.L. Polk | Witchmark | Tor | 2018-07-16 23:14:14 | ||
| Jacqueline Carey | Starless | Harper Voyager | 2018-07-16 22:57:56 | ||
| Na'amen Gobert Tilahun | Tree | Two Rivers/Nightshade | 2018-07-16 07:48:52 | ||
| Sarah Glenn Marsh | Reign of the Fallen | PRH/Razorbill | 2018-07-16 07:46:04 | ||
| Neal StephensonNicole Galland | The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. | Harper Collins | 2018-07-16 05:37:20 | ||
| Fonda Lee | Jade City | Orbit | 2018-07-16 05:35:08 | ||
| Mark Lawrence | Red Sister | Penguin | 2018-07-16 05:34:29 | ||
| Tad Williams | The Witchwood Crown | 2018-07-16 05:33:32 | |||
| Chloe N. Clark | The Science of Unvanishing Objects | Finishing Line Press | This collection of poems explores the dark and uncanny world of being a woman today. Beautiful and moving.finishinglinepress.com/product/the-scien… | 2018-07-11 12:06:14 | |
| Holly Lyn Walrath | Glimmerglass Girl | Finishing Line Press | A speculative poetry collection of words and images, focused on womanhood and femininity. VIDA: Women in Literary Arts calls Glimmerglass Girl ". . . an intersection between ethereal loftiness, humorous speculation, and poignant consideration. . . a collection of poetry and images that encourage readers to be more than they perceive themselves to be."finishinglinepress.com/product/glimmergl… | 2018-07-10 12:47:31 | |
| Holly Lyn Walrath | Stardust | in Robots & Artificial Intelligence Short Stories (Flame Tree Publishing) | A sexbot finds a new identity outside of a futuristic society's expectations. Nostalgia with a twist. amazon.com/robots-artificial-intelligenc… | 2018-07-10 12:43:50 | |
| Holly Lyn Walrath | knick knack, knick knack | Fireside Fiction | A mother struggles to come to accept her daughter's desire to follow a different path in life, while a daughter struggles to put ghosts to rest. firesidefiction.com/knick-knack-knick-kn… | 2018-07-10 12:40:07 | |
| Aliette De Bodard | The House of Binding Thorns | Ace | 2018-07-09 23:42:46 | ||
| K C Alexander | Nanoshock | Angry Robot | 2018-07-09 23:38:02 | ||
| Wesley Chu | The Rise of Io | Angry Robot | 2018-07-09 23:37:06 | ||
| Andrew Coletti | The Knife's Daughter | Pink Narcissus Press | Using Korean fairy tale tropes, this novella quietly explores gender roles, identity and sexuality through the eyes of the protagonist, born female but raised as a "Prince" in order to fulfill a prophecy and avenge their father's death.amazon.com/knifes-daughter-andrew-colett… | 2018-07-09 10:58:25 | |
| Rae D. Magdon | Lucky 7 | Desert Palm Press | Lucky 7 by Rae D. Magdon is an intensely hot gender-bending cyberpunk adventure. The characters are probably one of the highlights of this novel. I’ve rarely seen such a diverse cast, especially with the leads. Lucky 7 is a fast-paced adventure that pulls you along for the ride. The Characters include a stone butch black woman, a Hispanic woman, a trans woman, a non-binary/trans man, an AI sentient, a child and her giant mute brother.amazon.com/lucky-7-rae-d-magdon-ebook/dp… | 2018-07-09 07:00:19 | |
| Hamish Steele | Deadendia: The Watcher's Test | Nobrow | Barney and his best friend Norma are just trying to get by and keep their jobs, but working at the Dead End theme park also means battling demonic forces, time traveling wizards, and scariest of all--their love lives! Follow the lives of this diverse group of employees of a haunted house, which may or may not also serve as a portal to hell, in this hilarious and moving graphic novel, complete with talking pugs, vengeful ghosts and LBGTQIA love!nobrow.net/shop/deadendia/ | 2018-07-05 10:38:27 | |
| A.J. Fitzwater | Logistics | Clarkesworld | clarkesworldmagazine.com/fitzwater_04_18… | 2018-06-30 21:47:58 | |
| Christi Nogle | Promise | Escape Pod | escapepod.org/2018/03/22/escape-pod-620-… | 2018-06-30 07:07:39 | |
| Britta Lundin | Ship It | FreeForm | Claire is a 16-year-old fangirl who writes fan fic and slash. She forces the actors and showrunner to confront their sexuality even as she works through her own.freeform.go.com/books/ship-it | 2018-06-23 04:00:48 | |
| Debbie Urbanski | The Island | Gulf Coast | An asexual/aromantic mother struggles with participating in her community's rite of passage for her 17-year-old daughter that will permanently attach the daughter to another person or persons. | 2018-06-20 04:36:10 | |
| Bogi Takács | Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction | Lethe Press | As with the first volume of Transcendent, Lethe Press has worked with a wonderful editor to select the best work of genderqueer stories of the fantastical, stranger, horrific, and weird published the prior year. lethepressbooks.com/store/p465/transcend… | 2018-06-19 08:30:41 | |
| Saundra Mitchell | All Out: The No-Longer Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages | Harlequin | A collection of stories, each set in a different time. They include retelling of fairy tales, reimaginings of historical figures.saundramitchell.com/my-work/anthologies/… | 2018-06-19 02:17:33 | |
| Jenna Moreci | The Saviors Champion | Jenna Moreci | amazon.com/saviors-champion-book-ebook/d… | 2018-06-11 17:03:29 | |
| J.M. Ivie | Alvar Battle for the Realm | OD Publishers | amazon.com/alvar-battle-realm-tales-welk… | 2018-06-11 17:02:22 | |
| Alexandra Seidel | The Master of Hourglasses | Lackington's Magazine | This is just an update to let you know that the story is now available online.lackingtons.com/2018/04/30/the-master-of… | 2018-06-09 05:24:23 | |
| Benjamin Appleby-Dean | The Stickman's Legacy | Wild Wolf Publishing | The Stickman's Legacy is a dark fairytale about a young woman coming to terms with her family history and sexuality, and challenging gender sterotypes in traditional folklore. I'm the author of the work, and am happy to supply electronic copies to jurors if interested.amazon.com/stickmans-legacy-benjamin-app… | 2018-06-05 22:02:23 | |
| Jennifer Stevenson | Coed Demon Sluts (five book series) | Book View Cafe | This series explores sex work by not talking about the sex. It’s an act of rage and joy, a comic redefinition of the junction of class and gender, a woman-powered tap-dance on the lip of the apocalypse. I wanted to explore the usual concerns of women who have been forced out of their lives in ordinary ways, who respond by becoming succubi for hell. It isn't a new notion to walk away from a ruined life to enter prostitution. But the relatively liberal terms of succubus work and the support of other succubi allow each protagonist to explore her past within the breathing room of the job. She reinvents herself and defines the succubus role to suit her needs. John Scalzi featured my article about this project on his blog under The Big Idea https://whatever.scalzi.com/2017/07/12/the-big-idea-jennifer-stevenson/. Please consider the entire series.books2read.com/u/md0lve | 2018-06-01 16:58:27 | |
| Buchanan AC.Nino Cipri; Bogi Takács; Lauren E. Mitchell; A.E. Prevost; Cameron Van Sant; Rem Wigmore; Penny Stirling; Hazel Gold; SL Byrne; Rae White | Capricious: The Gender Diverse Pronouns Issue | 2018-05-24 06:15:13 | |||
| Makenzi Newman | The Final Strand | Cast of Wonders | castofwonders.org/2018/03/cast-wonders-2… | 2018-05-20 14:12:23 | |
| S.L. Scott | A Cure for Homesickness | Escape Pod | escapepod.org/2018/03/01/escape-pod-617-… | 2018-05-20 14:09:36 | |
| Jamie Lackey | A Study in Symmetry, or the Chance Encounter of an Android and a Painter | Escape Pod | escapepod.org/2018/03/15/escape-pod-619-… | 2018-05-20 14:08:38 | |
| Stephanie Malia Morris | Legal Tender | PseudoPod | pseudopod.org/2018/01/06/pseudopod-576-f… | 2018-05-20 14:06:09 | |
| Robert Ashcroft | The Megarothke | Cinestate | With a prominent transgender character who has the most mature arc in the entire novel, I think the Megarothke should be considered as part of the broader discussion. Despite the heavy action in the opening scenes, the book contains quite a bit of social commentary. It certainly "explores and expands gender," but it also serves as a cautionary tale against those who would misuse the movement, posing the question: who are we, as humans, when our best ideas are taken and manipulated toward the wrong ends?amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search… | 2018-05-18 16:30:50 | |
| Nick Wolven | "Galatea in Utopia" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | In world where sex changes and body enhancement commonplace, could person unable to change be seen as erotic? | 2018-05-18 12:33:57 | |
| Magdalene Sullivan | The Lightning Stenography Device | Painted Blind Publishing | In this psychedelic blend of science fiction and fantasy, a young author struggles to embrace her femininity and romantic ideals while trying to grow her professional reputation in the shadow of her lover, a more famous author for whom she serves as editrix. The release of the first thought-to-text device in 2031, however, changes everything: especially with the prophetic manuscript it produces while the wearer is asleep, which tells Cassius he will have a seizure, and tells Katherine she will experience...something else. As the three cogent layers of the tale give way into a mystical fable chronicling the efforts of a sublingual Huntress to rescue her captured King, the narrative shifts from science fiction to fantasy; from reality to dream; and from literature, to a portrait of consciousness. amazon.com/lightning-stenography-device-… | 2018-05-14 10:16:39 | |
| R. E. Stearns | Mutiny at Vesta | Saga Press | 2018-05-13 12:15:23 | ||
| Grace Ellis | Moonstruck, Volume 1 | Image Comics | 2018-05-13 12:14:22 | ||
| Tara Sim | Chainbreaker | Sky Pony Press | 2018-05-13 12:13:27 | ||
| Patrick Weekes | Feeder | Margaret K. McElderry Books | 2018-05-13 12:12:35 | ||
| Amber Dawn | Sodom Road Exit | Arsenal Pulp Press | 2018-05-13 12:11:37 | ||
| Kaia Sønderby | Tone of Voice | Going to Mars | 2018-05-13 12:10:49 | ||
| Jasmine Gower | Moonshine | Angry Robot | 2018-05-13 12:09:49 | ||
| Nem Rowan | Witcheskin | Less Than Three Press | 2018-05-13 12:08:23 | ||
| Lara Elena Donnelly | Armistice | Tor Books | 2018-05-13 12:07:27 | ||
| Natasha Ngan | Girls of Paper and Fire | Jimmy Patterson | 2018-05-13 12:06:21 | ||
| Mishell Baker | Impostor Syndrome | Saga Press | 2018-05-13 12:04:59 | ||
| Fletcher DeLancey | The Caphenon | Heartsome Publishing | 2018-05-13 12:03:43 | ||
| Sam J Miller | Blackfish City | Ecco | 2018-05-11 16:43:32 | ||
| R. F. Kuang | The Poppy War | Harper Voyager | 2018-05-11 13:50:51 | ||
| Catherynne Valente | Space Opera | Saga Press | amazon.com/space-opera-catherynne-m-vale… | 2018-05-10 13:40:52 | |
| oscar rodrigo | The shaitan's secret | Babelcube inc. | It is a fantastic genre novel in which an antihero will have to discover what he is and free the world from an invasion of beings from another dimension, the djinn. It's an adventure novel, science fiction and fantastic, I rummage in one with a high dose of black humor, a lot of dialogue, very dynamic and super-restrained. Very visual Rick, our protagonist must save humanity from the arrival of the djinn with a group of the most bizarre beings and it will be his own odyssey in which he will discover himself. In the book the reader will find a detailed teaching about what is the world of the djinn in the ancient Arabic mythology and what has survived to our times, mixed with real cases of strange events not clarified by science today.amazon.com/shaitans-secret-spanish-oscar… | 2018-05-07 12:02:49 | |
| Cat Jenkins | Sara When She Chooses | Bedazzled Ink Publishing | amazon.com/sara-when-she-chooses-jenkins… | 2018-05-05 14:46:38 | |
| Tee FranklinJenn St-Onge (Artist)Joy San (Colorist)Cardinal Rae (Letterer) | Bingo Love | Image Comics | A love story that spans the past, present, and future as two black girls fall in love, are wrested away by their families, and find each other once again decades later. | 2018-04-30 23:03:43 | |
| Meg Elison | Big Girl | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | As the author states: "women are always the wrong size." | 2018-04-24 23:55:40 | |
| Sadhna Shanker | Ascendance | Rupa Publications, India | The book is set in a distant planet in the future, where men and women live as antagonistic species separated by a Fence. They live in a world of perpetuity, as organ substitutions have made immortality a reality. They have no recollection of their shared past. A death on the women's side disturbs the equilibrium. The search for the cause of death leads to discovery of their co-existence on Earth. Weaving in issues of gender and changing social constructs in the mystery, this book imagines a world that could well become a possibility. http://amzn.in/ivspkkq | 2018-04-20 03:34:17 | |
| TS Porter | Rescues and the Rhyssa | Less Than Three Press | Sophi is a human starship smuggler, but to her crew of anoloid aliens, she's part of the family as a mated male. She's also a pod mother conducting trade at the highest levels with the blattas, the species that controls all of interstellar travel. But her greatest challenge is proving to honorable Cadan that she truly loves and respects the other woman.lessthanthreepress.com/books/index.php?m… | 2018-04-10 18:21:30 | |
| Rachel Hartman | Tess of the Road | Random House | 2018-03-20 08:48:31 | ||
| Kartin Tidbeck | Amatka | I suggest this book for the simple fact that the two lead characters Vanja and Nina are in a single sex marriage that no one in the town of Amakta considers important. They are the ones able to solve or at least identify the science fiction problem facing the community, neither handicapped or aided by their sexual orientation. | 2018-03-15 19:57:34 | ||
| Margaert Rhee | Love, Robot | The Operating System | amazon.com/love-robot-margaret-rhee/dp/1… | 2018-03-15 05:55:38 | |
| Claire O'Dell | A Study in Honor | Harper Voyager | Set in a near future Washington, D.C., a clever, incisive, and fresh feminist twist on a classic literary icon—Sherlock Holmes—in which Dr. Janet Watson and covert agent Sara Holmes, two black LGBTQA women, will use espionage, advanced technology, and the power of deduction to unmask a murderer targeting veterans from America's New Civil War. | 2018-03-15 04:33:19 | |
| Wanda Wright | The Fable of Eve Myth of Ages | Eve wants a new life and love and changes jobs and states to try to get it. The new job and town seem perfect and an incredible love seems real but this magical world needs Eve for survival. inkitt.com/stories/fantasy/208576 | 2018-03-14 14:59:15 | ||
| Marleen S. Barr | When Trump Changed: The Feminist Science Fiction Justice League Quashes the Orange Outrage Pussy Grabber | B Cubed Press | Award winning feminist science fiction scholar and writer Marleen S. Barr brings you The Feminist Science Fiction Justice League Quashes the Orange Outrage Pussy Grabber: Political Power Fantasy Fiction, a forthcoming book from B Cubed Press. This book, the world’s first single-authored satirical Trump-focused short story collection, is a guide to the Trump revenge fantasy galaxy. Barr turns to fiction to move beyond wishing for Trump’s impeachment. She subjects our President to close encounters with feminist extraterrestrials, alternative Hillary winning history, Godzilla-esque male metamorphosis, lock up in the Phantom Zone—and that’s on a good day. In the end, Barr transports Trump to a galaxy far far away from us. Those who recoil at pussy grabbing need to grab this laugh out loud funny groundbreaking feminist power fantasy. Liberals will rate it a ten. Will Trump call science fiction a fake book? Will he expect feminist extraterrestrials to characterize him as a very stable genius? Parody is powerful! The book will be available through B Cubed Press and can be ordered in advance through through their contact page:https://bcubedpress.com/contact/ bcubedpress.com/contact/ | 2018-03-14 11:42:07 | |
| Dee Warrick | Me, Waiting For Me, Hoping For Something More | Shimmer Magazine | shimmerzine.com/me-waiting/ | 2018-02-27 00:34:08 | |
| Cynthea Masson | The Flaw in the Stone | ECW Press | Both books in this series explore notions of gender, sexuality, etc.ecwpress.com/products/the-flaw-in-the-st… | 2018-02-18 18:55:11 | |
| Alexandra Seidel | L is for Luminous | Poise and Pen Publishing | 2018-01-30 15:45:26 | ||
| Alexandra Seidel | The Master of Hourglasses | Lackington's Magazine | 2018-01-30 15:40:05 | ||
| Alexandra PierceMimi Modal | Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia Butler | Twelfth Planet Press | Luminescent Threads celebrates Octavia E. Butler, a pioneer of the Science Fiction genre who paved the way for future African American writers and other writers of colour. Original essays and letters sourced and curated for this collection explore Butler’s depiction of power relationships, her complex treatment of race and identity, and her impact on feminism and women in Science Fiction. amazon.com/luminescent-threads-connectio… | 2018-01-23 10:48:55 | |
| Chad Stroup | Secrets of the Weird | Grey Matter Press | An unexpectedly raw and honest portrayal of a twenty-something trans woman as she navigates life in a fictional town called Sweetville (in what appears to be a semi-dystopian re-imagining of the early 90s) and crosses paths with punks, neo-Nazis, drag queens, spiritual cannibals, a mysterious cult of subhuman creatures, and more. The characterization of Trixie, the protagonist, is especially wonderful. Equally heartfelt, harrowing, and humorous, it's a very subversive, bizarre, and imaginative blend of dark fantasy and horror that is a bit difficult to pigeonhole, yet fits on the shelf well with queer authors such as Clive Barker, Poppy Z. Brite, and William S. Burroughs. | 2018-01-17 20:06:49 | |
| TS Porter | Rescues and the Rhyssa | Less Than Three Press | A lesbian scifi romance with a side order of aliens and humans all having complicated ideas of gender.lessthanthreepress.com/books/index.php?m… | 2018-01-17 18:51:45 | |
| Sarah Gailey | River of Teeth | Tor | 2018-01-17 11:53:20 | ||
| Nino Cipri | Which Super Little Dead Girl (TM) Are You? Take Our Quiz and Find Out! | Nightmare Magazine | nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/super-lit… | 2018-01-06 08:05:22 | |
| Samuel Delany | "The Hermit of Houston" | Fantasy & SF mag | 2017-12-27 15:22:26 | ||
| Tom Purdom | "Afloat Above a Floor of Stars" | Asimov's SF magazine, Nov/Dec 2017 | 2017-12-27 15:19:02 | ||
| Costi Gurgu | RecipeArium | White Cat Publications | I completely agree with Robert J. Sawyer's opinion: "Costi Gurgu breaks through with Recipearium, a brilliant, haunting tale. Move over China Miéville — this is the new new weird, a fabulous book with a distinctive, compelling voice." — Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of FlashForwardamazon.com/recipearium-costi-gurgu-ebook… | 2017-12-19 19:28:00 | |
| Julian K. Jarboe | The Heavy Things | SmokeLong Quarterly | smokelong.com/the-heavy-things/ | 2017-12-15 17:30:03 | |
| B R Sanders | The Adviser and the Diplomat | self published | patreon reward story, features two transgender characters Iiva’s place as the Bachelor King’s adviser has always been precarious: an elf at the right hand of a human king is a dangerous thing. But when someone even stranger than Iiva comes to the king’s court, the delicate balance Iiva depends on is thrown into chaos. Iiva must make a reckoning of not only the present and the future, but the past as well.brsanderswrites.com/published-fiction/sh… | 2017-12-07 16:58:41 | |
| Joamette GilAatmaja PandyaAnn XuArianne HokokiCoco CandelarioJainai "fydbac" JeffriesGabrielle RobinsonHannah LazarteJemma SalumeJuliette G.M.M. LopezMaria LlorensDevaki NeogiNaomi FranquizNatasha L. BarredoNivedita SekarVeronica AgarwalVexingly Yours | POWER & MAGIC: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology | P&M Press | POWER & MAGIC: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology collects fifteen original comics about queer witches of color as they master their abilities, discover their traditions, and navigate love as beings with incredible power. The witch is an icon of power. She represents transcendence, healing, insight, defiance, feminine monstrosity, and a sacred relationship to the self, the community, and the universe. From the euphoria of holding the stars in your grasp, to the sacrifices we make to reach them, POWER & MAGIC explores what it means to be a person of power in all its complexity. This comics anthology is 178 pages long, black and white, and features the work of 17 women, demigirls, and bigender creators of color. It's available in softcover form and DRM-free PDF form at the link provided. gumroad.com/powerandmagicpress | 2017-11-30 18:42:48 | |
| Petra Kuppers | The Wheelchair Ramp | Anomaly | anmly.org/ap25/fiction/petra-kuppers | 2017-11-28 05:14:05 | |
| Keffy KehrliEdited by Keffy Kehrli | GlitterShip Year One | GlitterShip / Createspace | glittership.com | 2017-11-24 17:10:11 | |
| Louise Erdrich | The Future Home of the Living God. | Harper | 2017-11-20 14:46:07 | ||
| Holly Goddard Jones | The Salt Line | G.P. Putnam's Sons | In the spirit of Station Eleven and California, award-winning novelist Holly Goddard Jones offers a literary spin on the dystopian genre with this gripping story of survival and humanity about a group of adrenaline junkies who jump "the Salt Line." | 2017-11-17 07:58:29 | |
| Meg Howrey | The Wanderers | G.P. Putnam's Sons | A brilliantly inventive literary novel about three astronauts auditioning for the first-ever mission to Mars, an experience that will push the boundary between real and unreal, test their relationships, and leave each of them — and their families — changed forever. | 2017-11-17 07:57:11 | |
| Amanda Ure | Replicas | Galactic Association of Intelligent Life Earth LLC | Replicas is the story of Melissa Shipton, a woman born on 24th-century Earth. It recounts the events that motivate her to leave her home forever to settle on the remotest of eight human-habitable exoplanets. The novel explores a number of provocative topics including exoplanet colonies, artificial intelligence, the rights of androids, genetic engineering, and trans-sexuality. Issues of trans-sexuality and gender identity are another important focus of the novel and are explored with empathy and sensitivity, illustrating how people may deal with these subjects in the future. amazon.com/replicas-galactic-association… | 2017-11-15 20:09:47 | |
| Otter Lieffe | Margins and Murmurations | Self-published | Written by a trans woman and sex worker, Margins and Murmurations puts transgender, sex work and femininity at the centre of its twisting, multi-layered narrative. In this sensitive exploration of exclusion, intimacy and control, Otter Lieffe calls us to renew our struggles against oppression and to proudly reclaim the margins that so many of us call home. amzn.eu/hl7a7ih | 2017-11-10 08:41:00 | |
| Darcie Little Badger | The Famine King | Mythic Delirium | mythicdelirium.com/featured-story-%e2%80… | 2017-11-09 11:51:10 | |
| Lev Mirov | The Desert, Blooming | Upper Rubber Boot Books | This short story was published in Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk & Eco-Speculation. Mirov explores and expands gender in this environmental story by seamlessly using no gendered pronouns. | 2017-11-09 07:17:48 | |
| Yoon Ha Lee | Raven Stratagem | Solaris | 2017-11-07 16:28:10 | ||
| Debbie Urbanski | The Opposite Of Hero Is Me | Cicada Magazine http://cicadamag.com/ | A story that questions the types of heroic tales a society is encouraged to tell and read. Narrated by an aromantic teen. | 2017-11-03 08:19:07 |