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| Jim KroepflStephanie Kroepfl | Merged | Month9Books | Seven of our country’s most gifted teens will become Nobels, hosts for the implantation of brilliant Mentor minds, in an effort to accelerate human progress. But as the line between what’s possible and what’s right, draws ever blurrier, the teens discover everything has a cost. Scientists have created an evolved form of living known as Merged Consciousness, and 16-year-old Lake finds herself unable to merge with her Mentor. Lake, the Nobel for Chemistry and Orfyn, the Nobel for Art, are two from among the inaugural class of Nobels, and with the best intent and motivation. But when Stryker, the Nobel for Peace, makes them question the motivation of the scientists behind the program, their world begins to unravel. As the Nobels work to uncover the dark secrets of the program’s origins, everyone's a suspect and no one can be trusted.will soon be available on netgalley | 2019-12-03 15:03:53 | |
| Lisa Goldstein | Ivory Apples | Tachyon | “Lisa Goldstein is writing some of the most exciting fantasy out there. Ivory Apples is terrific.” —Jo Walton, author of Among Others and Lent Ivy and her sisters have a secret: their reclusive Great-Aunt is actually Adela Madden, author of the fantasy classic, Ivory Apples. Generations of obsessive fans have searched for Adela, poring over her letters, sharing their theories online, and gathering at conventions. It’s just a matter of time before one fan gets too close. Ivy, on a journey of inner and outer self-discovery, must protect what she and her Great-Aunt share: magic that is real, untamable, and full of unanticipated desires.dropbox.com/sh/8ylrnll0uete76a/aabtxsfu7… | 2019-12-02 11:51:30 | |
| Claire Fitzpatrick | Metamorphosis | IFWG Australia/International | amazon.com.au/metamorphosis-collection-s… | 2019-12-01 18:34:16 | |
| Fumiki Takahashi | All About Youth | LIT Magazine | litmagazine.org/2019/11/25/all-about-you… | 2019-11-29 04:41:34 | |
| Benjanun Sriduangkaew | Mirrorstrike | Apex Publications | 978-1-937009-73-1 | 2019-11-29 04:10:12 | |
| Penny Stirling | Red, From the Heartwood | Upper Rubber Boot Books, in "The Sharp and Sugar Tooth" anthology | A short story of polyamorous relationships, metamorphosis, diverse gender identities, and apples. It's very warm and beautifully written. | 2019-11-29 02:11:40 | |
| Jasmyne J. Harris | What the Bees Know About Discarded Girlish Organs | Upper Rubber Boot Books, in "The Sharp and Sugar Tooth" anthology | Outstanding short story that explores the idea of romantic relationships as a form of biological symbiosis, and what happens to the discarded partners in those relationships when symbiosis is stopped halfway through. This story looks at how exploitation, and the differing scales of consequence, are strongly affected by gender. It is creepy and terrifying and sad all at once. | 2019-11-29 02:07:46 | |
| Katharine Duckett | Gimme Sugar | A short story that reimagines the idea of consumption and sex. The ability to recreate a lover, temporarily, in consumable form (essentially out of moving and responsive cake) comments on how easily relationships can degrade when exploitation is thrown into the mix. | 2019-11-29 02:03:43 | ||
| AJ Fitzwater | Power Chord | Capricious | Feminist punk rock resistance performance in space, in short story form. | 2019-11-29 01:59:46 | |
| Octavia Cade | Mary Shelley Makes A Monster | Aqueduct Press | All our monsters are mirrors. And when Mary Shelley’s monster—built from her life rather than her pen, born out of biography instead of blood—outlives its mother, that monster goes looking for a substitute. But all the monster really knows of women is that women write, and so the search for a replacement takes it first to Katherine Mansfield, and then to other women who know what mutilated things can be made from ink and mirrors…. | 2019-11-28 15:29:53 | |
| Petra Kuppers | Mercury Worms | Shoreline of Infinity 16 | A story of disability, animality, interpenetration and climate change. | 2019-11-28 06:57:29 | |
| AJ Fitzwater | Hunger's Truth | GigaNotoSaurus | This story explores gender marginalisation and hunger, and how appetite can be used as a means to combat oppression.giganotosaurus.org/2019/04/01/hungers-tr… | 2019-11-27 15:38:38 | |
| Andi C. Buchanan | From a Shadow Grave | Paper Road Press | Wellington, 1931. Seventeen-year-old Phyllis Symons' body is discovered in the Mt Victoria tunnel construction site. Eighty years later, Aroha Brooke is determined to save her life. This urban fantasy novella looks at the possible futures of a dead girl, and the woman who falls in love with her ghost. It fractures into different possibilities, and the expectations that Phyllis has for herself in each one. Plus the writing is just plain gorgeous. | 2019-11-26 14:48:40 | |
| Cody T Luff | Ration | Apex Book Company | Set in the far future, Ration is an unflinching take on the ways society can both thrive and go wrong as pressure to survive builds. All the girls who live in the Apartments are forced to weigh their own hunger against the lives of the others living in the building. When Cynthia is wrongly accused of ordering an "A" ration, she punished by the other girls. Eventually, she is forced to leave the Apartments along with Ms. Glennoc, one of the former managers who has tormented and abused her for years. Together, they encounter a world of even more scarcity, but one filled with politics and intrigue. Ration is a dark and forceful book, written in a surprisingly nuanced and accessible way. It combines the darkness and despair of The Road and The Handmaid's Tale, but has notes of charm. apexbookcompany.com/collections/alpha-pr… | 2019-11-24 14:02:58 | |
| Kacen Callender | Queen of the Conquered | Orbit | 2019-11-22 13:18:43 | ||
| R.J. Barker | The Bone Ships | Orbit | 2019-11-22 13:13:08 | ||
| C. A. Fletcher | A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World | Orbit | 2019-11-22 13:11:57 | ||
| Jordanna Max Brodsky | The Wolf in the Whale | Redhook | 2019-11-22 13:10:10 | ||
| Ann Leckie | The Raven Tower | Orbit | 2019-11-22 13:07:50 | ||
| Kerstin Hall | The Border Keeper | Tor.com Publishing | "A phantasmagorical picaresque through a lushly realised underworld, populated by a grotesque bestiary of fantastical creatures. . . . This twisty example of the new weird genre examines love, loss and loyalty, packing skilful world-building and a powerful emotional punch into a little over 200 pages."—The Guardian "Beautifully and vividly imagined. Eerie, lovely, and surreal."—Ann Leckie “A labyrinth of demons, dead gods, cranky psychopomps, and broken all-too-human lives. Hall is by turns wry and lush, genuine and venomous. So can I have the next one already?”—Max Gladstone A Book Bub Best SFF Books of the Summer Pickpublishing.tor.com/theborderkeeper-kerst… | 2019-11-19 11:51:30 | |
| Emily Tesh | Silver in the Wood | Tor.com Publishing | "A true story of the woods, of the fae, and of the heart. Deep and green and wonderful.”—New York Times bestselling author Naomi Novik There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not dwell on his past life, but he lives a perfectly unremarkable existence with his cottage, his cat, and his dryads. When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely curious new owner in Henry Silver, everything changes. Old secrets better left buried are dug up, and Tobias is forced to reckon with his troubled past—both the green magic of the woods, and the dark things that rest in its heart.publishing.tor.com/silverinthewood-emily… | 2019-11-19 11:49:43 | |
| Mariko Tamaki Steve Pugh (illustrator) | HARLEY QUINN: BREAKING GLASS | DC | Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass is a coming-of-age story about choices, consequences, justice, fairness, and progress and how a weird kid from Gotham's poorest part of town goes about defining her world for herself. From Eisner Award and Caldecott Honor-winning author Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer, Supergirl: Being Super). Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass is at once a tale of the classic Harley readers know and love, and a heartfelt story about the choices teenagers make and how they can define--or destroy--their lives.dccomics.com/graphic-novels/harley-quinn… | 2019-11-19 08:40:29 | |
| Katharine Duckett | Miranda in Milan | Tor.com Publishing | With Miranda in Milan, debut author Katharine Duckett reimagines the consequences of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, casting Miranda into a Milanese pit of vipers and building a queer love story that lifts off the page in whirlwinds of feeling. “Love and lust, mothers and monsters, magicians and masked balls, all delivered with Shakespearean panache.” —Nicola Griffith, author of Hild “Miranda in Milan is somehow both utterly charming and perfectly sinister, and altogether delightful. A pleasure for any lover of romance, myth, and magic—whether or not they're fans of the Bard.” —Cherie Priest, author of Boneshaker and I Am Princess Xpublishing.tor.com/mirandainmilan-kathar… | 2019-11-18 11:10:59 | |
| Jy Yang | The Ascent to Godhood | Tor.com Publishing | Prepare yourself for The Ascent to Godhood, the fourth book in JY Yang's silkpunk Tensorate series, a wide-ranging, imaginative, engaging playground that the New York Times lauded as "joyously wild." The Protector is dead. For fifty years, the Protector ruled, reshaping her country in her image and driving her enemies to the corners of the map. For half a century the world turned around her as she built her armies, trained her Tensors, and grasped at the reins of fate itself. But in one tavern, deep in rebel territory, her greatest enemy drowns her sorrows. Lady Han raised a movement that sought the Protector's head, yet now she can only mourn her loss. She remembers how it all began, when the Protector was young, not yet crowned, and a desperate dancing girl dared to fall in love with her.publishing.tor.com/theascenttogodhood-jy… | 2019-11-18 11:05:12 | |
| C. S. E. Cooney | Desdemona and the Deep | Tor.com Publishing | Award-winning author C.S.E. Cooney indulges in luxurious, dizzying fantasy----In Desdemona and the Deep, the spoiled daughter of a rich mining family must retrieve the tithe of men her father promised to the world below. On the surface, her world is rife with industrial pollution that ruins the health of poor factory workers while the idle rich indulge themselves in unheard-of luxury. Below are goblins, mysterious kingdoms, and an entirely different hierarchy. publishing.tor.com/desdemonaandthedeep-c… | 2019-11-18 11:02:04 | |
| Vylar Kaftan | Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water | Tor.com Publishing | All Bee has ever known is darkness. She doesn’t remember the crime she committed that landed her in the cold, twisting caverns of the prison planet Colel-Cab with only fellow prisoner Chela for company. Chela says that they’re telepaths and mass-murderers; that they belong here, too dangerous to ever be free. Bee has no reason to doubt her—until she hears the voice of another telepath, one who has answers, and can open her eyes to an entirely different truth. REVIEWS "Tense and gripping."—Ann Leckie "Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water transcends its particulars to rise to the universal. As protagonist Bee struggles with not only oppression by others but also her own limitations and the hard choices of love, her story becomes a moving tribute to the power within all of us."—Nancy Kress publishing.tor.com/hersilhouettedrawninw… | 2019-11-18 11:00:37 | |
| Martha Riva-Palacio | KIC5520878 with variations and fugue | Cúmulo de Tesla - Libia Brenda (Hugo Finalist) | I came across Libia Brenda's new project while following the Hugo Awards these year. (She was nominated because of her previous work A Larger Reality 1.0.) I see that many of the stories included in these anthology have been recommended here, including one of the great Gabriela Damian. To this list, I would include this one too! I'm still processing it, it's beautiful. Actually, Libia Brenda's whole project: "A Larger Reality 2.0: A timetable in which we don't go extinct" it's awesome! alargerreality.mx/2019/ | 2019-11-18 07:13:10 | |
| Avi Silver | Two Dark Moons (Sãoni Cycle #1) | Molewhale Press | amazon.com/two-dark-moons-avi-silver/dp/… | 2019-11-18 06:30:55 | |
| Nisi Shawl | Talk Like a Man | PM Press | Feminist SFF, seems directly relevant wrt experimentation with gender - Bogi. | 2019-11-17 19:00:09 | |
| May Peterson | Lord of the Last Heartbeat | Harlequin | Trans author, intersex protagonist. I'd be interested in reading this - Bogi. | 2019-11-17 18:58:57 | |
| Annalee Newitz | The Future of Another Timeline | Tor | I have my reservations about this book, but there is absolutely no doubt that it explores and expands gender and the role of gender in creating and changing history. The basic concept is a historical edit war, where pro-abortion women are pitted against misogynistic men in determining a future that either will or won't enslave women. | 2019-11-16 22:26:47 | |
| M.Z. McDonnell | Poet, Prophet, Fox: The Tale of Sinnach the Seer | Moose Maple Press | This book opened my eyes to the magical nature of being a trans person. I walked in the footsteps of a character who I deeply connected with in struggle and in victory. This story goes beyond just a tale of a trans person into a story of self discovery and remembering who we all truly are...magical and powerful. This story reminds me to believe in myself and everything that connects us to our destiny. mzmcdonnell.com | 2019-11-15 09:25:02 | |
| Phoebe Barton | "A Square of Flesh, a Cube of Steel" | Analog | A trans girl medically contra-indicated from undergoing medical transition faces a series of major life changes.curiousfictions.com/stories/2658-phoebe-… | 2019-11-07 08:42:30 | |
| Debbie Urbanski | Excerpt from Sen’s ninth and final notebook, S.+648 days to S.+731 days | Conjunctions | A post-apocalyptic account told from the point of view of a young woman whose goal is not survival, contrasting with the generally heroic narratives typically told by men. | 2019-11-07 05:39:23 | |
| Karen Frost | "Daughter of Fire: The Darkness Rising" | Ylva Publishing | In this YA fantasy book, the positions of power are held equally by men and women: the Knight Commander, the Lady Marshal, the Chancellor of the mage university, and, eventually, the new Queen are women. The head mage, the Lord Chancellor, and the King are are men. Women are knights and mages, assassins and rulers, lawful good and chaotic evil just as much as their male counterparts. Characters accept all types of diversity (ability, race, sexual orientation, etc.) as unremarkable and without prejudice. No one questions the women's capabilities or leadership based on their gender. The love story is between two girls, but the fact that one girl chooses to leave her male partner to follow her heart is treated with compassion and understanding.ylva-publishing.com/product/daughter-of-… | 2019-11-06 15:39:56 | |
| Jenn Lyons | The Name of All Things | Tor Books | I liked the tensions in how gender works in Jorat vs. the rest of the Empire. It was interesting that gender was described differently for sexual orientation vs. social gender role. So you could be stallion in the streets, attracted to mares (or stallions, or the 3rd gender) in the sheets!goodreads.com/book/show/43255070-the-nam… | 2019-11-04 12:33:37 | |
| Forest / Łukasz Blackwood / Przybylski | War of light and darkness book I | royalhawaiianpress.com | Good morning! My name is Łukasz Przybylski and I am writing under a Forest Blackwood pen name. I want to present the titled novel to You a War of the Light and Darkness is a trilogy. The novel was translated from Polish into English thanks to the American Royal Hawaiian publishing company Press. The novel will also be translated by the publishing company to the Spanish. It is book linking all sorts fantasy kinds through heroic and dark fantasy with a bit of horror as well as high fantasy! Below I am presenting the description of the plot of the War of the Light and Darkness to You. Book One Discover the universe composed of seven magical lands, each of which hides its unique charm. However, centuries ago, the transitions between them were closed, and their inhabitants gradually forgot about their neighbors. One day, Count Artis of the Kingdom of Draxban discovers the ancient mechanism that allows you to move freely between lands. Along with the boon, however, there is a threat, because some worlds have been contaminated by the presence of impure forces, which are now beginning to reveal themselves and wreak havoc. The areas remaining in isolation will soon be on the brink of war, which will determine their fate. In order to face the demons, witches and vampires from the dark Lanar, people are forced not only to make an alliance between themselves, but also to use the help of Angels. Neither of them, however, feels that war turmoil will wake up yet another, much more powerful force that has been dormant for centuries. The action of the novel is located in seven magical worlds, I briefly allowed myself to present to you a description of each of them separately: Action of the novel the "War of the Light and Darkness" is taking place in extensive universe, compound of seven magic lands. These are they: ALMEGIA: This duchy of people which the Akrawan prince is ruling is. Extensive seas, thanks to which Almegia is famous for their large fleet are surrounding them. Second by ships unusual lions which local knights are exploiting as riding horse are an identification of this land and which are immune to every magic. Also enchantresses which are basing their power on the magic of three materials live in Almegii - of wood, rock and iron. DRAXBAN: The Draxban kingdom is inhabited by people and divided in the row of counties. Enchantresses, performing the role of minders are leaning magnates on individual manor houses. Also magic lynx live in Draxban, which seen from a distance look for observing as playing children - however this innocent image constitutes only a magic stratagem, thanks to which more than one assailant was deluded and fatally surprised, when it was already too late. Chosen ones of angels to which the fate assigned the particular role for playing come from it is of this land. However this land is being harassed with treacherous action of witches, vampires and minor demons. INARAX: Beautiful land inhabited by angels. It here one's on an island amongst the greenish ocean an Archangel is having registered office. Angels stayed in two hierarchies - of the Court and Shepherds - they are inhabiting nearby land, training in their trade and often sending to other lands in order to be on the alert above the living there population. In Inarax a hoar frost is covering the Earth what he is buying, that tops rising up here from a distance look like clouds in the sky. IRGANA: Gloomy rainy land from which the most powerful wizards for which they are not only feeling respect come most dangerous of demons, but even very Archangel. However the knowledge about for her existing is being held in a deep secret, and to her only a narrow magic circle is having access. To of the ones last a clandestine sect of vampires, for which the leader is good at ancient language of wizards ranks and is able to establish contact with them. It is least get to know from all lands. LANAR: Enveloped with darkness land of demons, witches and vampires. It from here is permeating the evil to other lands, poisoning them and destroying. A constant night is ruling in this land, and the hidden sunlight is thick clouds too unnaturally. Trees and the flora are here as equally unfriendly as residents - the limbs of trees deprived of leaves, kinked are smoking and are bursting with flames. Lanar constitutes the homeland old and of the younger generation of demons, as well as smaller beings, called morwags and argous. SYRNIA: Land ruled by priests. Trees are here of silvery colour, whereas mountains are looking like coal and have a dark blue colour. Above fields the most beautiful fragrances of flowers are rising. However also an evil made a nest in this land full of the charm. To its hiding place it chose dark mountain caves, where the Ragrog demon settled along with his servants. UNBIA: A beautiful land, full of forests and majestic mountain peaks, on which people build their mansions and castles. King Alwan rules it, and it is supported by brave knights. It is from this land that winged bears come, whose skin is so thick that no weapon pierces it, and when someone tries to cast a spell on one of them, it bounces and returns to the caster, then exerting its effect on it - positive or negative . There are also ethereal wizards in Unbia who can move, turning into a whirlwind, and traverse the land like a tornado, without causing any harm to it. Sincerely Forest Blackwoodcurator7.wixsite.com/forestblackwood | 2019-10-30 08:14:18 | |
| Elizabeth Chatsworth | Ten Minutes Past Teatime | The Fairfield Scribes Press | A Victorian spinster-scientist and a Viking shield-maiden find passion and danger in dark-age Ireland.1896 Forty-three-year-old scientist Miss Minerva Minett is determined to become the first female member of an exclusive inventor’s club. To win their annual membership competition, she invents a time-traveling submersible, and launches her vessel into the Irish sea for a quick trip to the dark ages. But when she sinks a Viking longship, accidentally joins a monastery raid, and falls into the arms of a grizzled shield-maiden, she discovers that time may not be on her side. SCIENCE FICTION, TIME TRAVEL, FEMINIST, LGBT, ROMANCE, COMEDY, NOVELETTE, SHORT STORY (word count: 9,500)amazon.com/minutes-past-teatime-elizabet… | 2019-10-28 13:09:42 | |
| Joamette GilA.B.V.OrionAshanti FortsonBrian WolfChloveCori WaltersDiigii DagunaEmily MadlyMaria LiEzra RoseJey BarnesCorey RansonJuliette G.M.M. LopezLee LaiMar JuliaPolly GuoRaven “raveyrai” WhiteRhiannon RasmussenChan ChauRii AbregoS.J. MillerSunmiSunny ÔchumukShaina LuVivian HoVerXanthe BoumaZ. Akhmetova | Heartwood: Non-binary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy | P&M Press | HEARTWOOD: Non-binary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy is the first ever non-binary comics anthology, made entirely by cartoonists who identify as a non-binary gender. Across time and cultures, humanity has spun tales about the forest: tales of caution, adventure, rites of passage, and discovery. Some of those stories persist as the folklore and fairy tales that delight our imaginations today, and the forest remains a symbol for facing the unknown and emerging transformed. This anthology is for everyone who’s walked through the undergrowth, in the silence of nature, and longed for an adventure of their own to unfold. Our stories of modern-day sylvan fantasy showcase some of the best non-binary cartoonists of our day, guiding characters like us into the woods and back again.drive.google.com/file/d/1hve6hjnlpnrgq6_… | 2019-10-24 21:38:19 | |
| Daniela Tarazona | Pistil | Cúmulo de Tesla | Published in the anthology A Timeline in Which We Don't Go Extinct: A Larger Reality 2.0alargerreality.mx/2019/ | 2019-10-23 21:05:44 | |
| Gabriela Damián Miravete | Never Underestimate a Sleeping Woman | Published in the anthology A Timeline in Which We Don’t Go Extinct: A Larger Reality 2.0.alargerreality.mx/2019/ | 2019-10-21 18:46:49 | ||
| Rebecca Solnit | Cinderella Liberator | Haymarket Books | A retelling of the Cinderella story that emphasizes agency, consent, being true to oneself, and helping others; includes at least brief representation of non-binary folks (I cried!), and does NOT focus on "true love." Encourages young readers to stand up for they believe in. I wish I could send a copy of this book to every family in the US. | 2019-10-20 06:42:26 | |
| Fumiki Takahashi | A Homeroom Meeting | Another Chicago Magazine | anotherchicagomagazine.net/2019/07/23/a-… | 2019-10-18 00:37:52 | |
| Izzy Wasserstein | This Next Song Is Called Punk Rock Valhalla | Zsenon Publishing/A Punk Rock Future | Izzy notes that the story is "based in my experience as a trans woman, and in thinking through what it means to embrace one's body and identity even when faced with a transphobic society and internalized transphobia."amazon.com/punk-rock-future-erica-satifk… | 2019-10-15 14:14:15 | |
| Sulway Nike | The Frog's Prince; Or, Iron Henry | Interzone, issue 282 | 2019-10-14 19:15:30 | ||
| Nike SulwayShauna O'Meara (illustrator) | Winter's Tale | Twelfth Planet Press (Titania) | 2019-10-14 19:14:40 | ||
| Natalia Theodoridou | The Last Eagle | Clarkesworld | Trans gay protagonist in a developing relationship. Vulnerability and care. clarkesworldmagazine.com/theodoridou_04_… | 2019-10-14 07:13:58 | |
| Suyi Davies Okungbowa | David Mogo, Godhunter | Abaddon/Rebellion | 2019-10-13 14:14:39 | ||
| Lydia Deyes | A Song in the Rain | Self Published | A Song in the Rain is a young YA (12-15+) fantasy novel written by a female author, but has a young male narrator... who is relatively unreliable. The story is focused on a world of animals with a dangerous villain whose powers include corrupting and manipulating the minds of others. Readers may find themselves listening more closely to the narrator's female friend as a voice of reason when his own mind can not be trusted.amazon.com/song-rain-lydia-deyes-ebook-d… | 2019-10-11 16:41:20 | |
| Alex DiFrancesco | All City | Seven Stories Press | In a near-future New York City in which both global warming and a tremendous economic divide are making the city unlivable for many, a huge superstorm hits, leaving behind only those who had nowhere else to go and no way to get out. Makayla is a twenty-four-year-old woman who works at the convenience store chain that’s taken over the city. Jesse, an eighteen-year-old, genderqueer, anarchist punk lives in an abandoned IRT station in the Bronx. Their paths cross in the aftermath of the storm when they, along with others devastated by the loss of their homes, carve out a small sanctuary in an abandoned luxury condo. In an attempt to bring hope to those who feel forsaken, an unnamed, mysterious street artist begins graffitiing colorful murals along the sides of buildings. But the castaways of the storm aren’t the only ones who find beauty in the art. When the media begins broadcasting the emergence of the murals and one appears on the building Makayla, Jesse, and their friends are living in, it is only a matter of time before those who own the building come back to claim what is theirs. All City is more than a novel, it’s a foreshadowing of the world to come.sevenstories.com/books/4162-all-city | 2019-10-10 06:59:21 | |
| Deborah Coates | "Girls who Never Stood a Chance" | Fantasy & Scieence Fiction | 2019-10-02 12:39:53 | ||
| debbie Urbanski | "How to Kiss a Hojacki" | Fantasy and Science Fiction | a painful read but sometimes true of Tiptree Award works | 2019-10-02 12:36:17 | |
| Akwaeke Emezi | Pet | Make Me A World | nytimes.com/2019/09/30/books/review/pet-… | 2019-09-30 10:49:41 | |
| J.S. Breukelaar | Like Ripples on a Blank Shore | Meerkat Press | A key sub-plot is the story of a man who must come to terms with the fact that his twin is transgender. meerkatpress.com/books/collision-stories… | 2019-09-29 17:01:21 | |
| J.S. Breukelaar | Collision (a short story in the collection named Collision: Stories) | Meerkat Press | In a collision of the multi-verse, a girl and her transgender brother are thrown back in time where his gender identification is not accepted. His sister is faced with a tough decision that will ultimately decide their fate.meerkatpress.com/books/collision-stories… | 2019-09-29 16:58:50 | |
| Eugen Bacon | Claiming T-Mo | Meerkat Press | Story of three women and their relationship to a man, T-Mo, whose personality was split into a dark and light side as a result of the act of an immortal priest. One of the women, Silhouette, is wed to the priest as a child. She escapes the abusive marriage but must leave her child behind. She meets a woman and eventually falls in love. Strong feminist / gender themes in the book.meerkatpress.com/books/claiming_t-mo/ | 2019-09-29 16:53:59 | |
| Eleanor Lerman | Satellite Street | The Permanent Press | Satellite Street includes a focus on two main characters, one transgender and very much alive but struggling with her inability to complete her transition, the other a gay man--a once famous rock and roll disc jockey--who now exists somewhere beyond the human horizon but still has a wrong he wants to right on this side of the divide between life and death. The overarching theme of the story is transtions: from one gender to another, from illness to recovery, from life to death, and from middle age to whatever comes next. amzn.to/2nqmhyb | 2019-09-28 03:55:57 | |
| Dusk Peterson | Breached Boundaries (The Three Lands) | Love in Dark Settings Press | [Novel with nonbinary content, as well as a character coming to terms with his gender.] The boundaries of rank declare that Serva can be a princess or she can be a slave. But for the bastard daughter of the King of Daxis, life is not that simple. ¶ Forced to be a tool in a battle waged by her land's unstable King and his dangerously devious heir, Serva cannot even find refuge among her fellow slaves. Instead, she secretly explores the hidden portions of the palace. In this way, she meets an imprisoned spy who is scheduled for execution. ¶ But when a simmering war bubbles to the surface, Serva must choose where her loyalties lie. She must also solve the mystery of the spy's past, and of her own future. duskpeterson.com/threelands/#breachedbou… | 2019-09-25 13:21:47 | |
| Dusk Peterson | Free-man's Blade (The Three Lands) | Love in Dark Settings Press | [Short story featuring a Third Gender character and a character struggling with his gender status.] Free-men are the backbone of Emor: the men who run and protect the empire. But when a young servant finds himself unexpectedly vaulted into manhood, he must decide how he will use his power, and who will pay the price of his decision. duskpeterson.com/threelands/#freemansbla… | 2019-09-25 13:17:58 | |
| Chen QiufanTranslated by Rebecca Kuang | In This Moment, We Are Happy | Clarkesworld | clarkesworldmagazine.com/chen_08_19/ | 2019-09-24 17:40:59 | |
| Cori McCarthyAmy Rose Capetta | Once & Future | JIMMY Patterson Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group | 2019-09-24 10:29:30 | ||
| Donyae Coles | Breaking the Waters | PseudoPod and Nightlight | pseudopod.org/2019/09/20/pseudopod-666-b… | 2019-09-20 17:22:55 | |
| Victoria Lee | The Fever King | Skyscape | amazon.com/fever-king-feverwake-book-ebo… | 2019-09-18 15:57:51 | |
| Alison Evans | Highway Bodies | Echo Publishing | Who will you rely on in the zombie apocalypse? Bodies on the TV, explosions, barriers, and people fleeing. No access to social media. And a dad who’ll suddenly bite your head off – literally. These teens have to learn a new resilience… Members of a band wield weapons instead of instruments. A pair of siblings find there’s only so much you can joke about, when the menace is this strong. And a couple find depth among the chaos. Highway Bodies is a unique zombie apocalypse story featuring a range of queer and gender non-conforming teens who have lost their families and friends and can only rely upon each other.echopublishing.com.au/titles/highway-bod… | 2019-09-11 23:19:36 | |
| E.J. Stevens | Craven Street | Sacred Oaks Press | LGBTQIA+ characters. Exploration of gender roles in 19th century. Female and non-binary characters solving crimes, saving lives, and finding love and hope in dark times. Set against the backdrop of pre and post-Ripper Victorian London, the Whitechapel Paranormal Society series answers the question of how cases such as the Thames Torso Murders, Craven Street Bones, Tottenham Court Road Mystery, Whitechapel Murders, Goswell Road Mystery, and the Vanishing Girls of West Ham might have been solved if put in the capable hands of a team of female special agents. whitechapelparanormal.com | 2019-09-10 07:14:31 | |
| R. R. Angell | Best Game Ever | Sisu Publications | This is a great book. I love the characters and writing style. The diverse cast includes (among other characters in and out of the LGBT spectrum, including the gay male protagonist) a prominent supporting character who is gender-fluid. The important subplot of this book concerns Miles's gender identity and expression (as well as the perils of an abusive relationship). With a stated goal of creating an SF novel with a positive gay protagonist (combating the discrimination he'd faced within traditional publishing), R. R. Angell delivers a work both thoughtful and fun. I learned from this book as well as reveling in the great portrayals of a multitude of characters. The deft handling of gender identity issues in particular should be appealing to those hungry for better representation as well as those who are open to learning more.rrangell.com/best-game-ever/ | 2019-09-10 05:20:33 | |
| Benjanun Sriduangkaew | That August Song | Beneath Ceaseless Skies | beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/that… | 2019-09-06 23:16:50 | |
| M. L. Wang | The Sword of Kaigen | amazon.com/sword-kaigen-theonite-war-sto… | 2019-09-03 21:29:32 | ||
| Red Harvey | The Dark | Nuff Said Publishing | Horror/sci-fi novella that follows the lives of three women, in the style of "Six Feet Under." Each woman meets their demise. Along the way, they grapple with issues of class and gender.amazon.com/dp/b07gcty25d | 2019-09-03 12:04:35 | |
| M. F. Sullivan | The General's Bride (Disgraced Martyr Trilogy Book II) | Painted Blind Publishing | The second in a thrilling LGBTQ+ cyberpunk/horror trilogy whose first book was hailed by sci-fi author and wife of Philip K. Dick, Tessa Dick, as a "gripping read from start to finish": After her strange journey to Kabul, General Dominia di Mephitoli is stranded in a strange alternative dimension--a Void realm populated by a controversial mystic and the (allegedly fictional) martyr saint of death. Given her surroundings, the added presence of her evil father, the Hierophant, would be almost a comfort, if he didn't also arrive in the company of a heinous doppelganger of THE GENERAL'S BRIDE. But only memories of that love can keep Dominia on track to Cairo, back to reality, and the lost diamond of her dead wife's compressed cremains. The question now is no longer of resurrection's possibility, however: the question is of resurrection's morals. amazon.com/generals-bride-cyberpunk-tril… | 2019-09-03 07:57:48 | |
| M. F. Sullivan | The Hierophant's Daughter (Disgraced Martyr Trilogy Book I) | Painted Blind Publishing | The first in an exciting LGBTQ+ cyberpunk/horror trilogy being released throughout 2019 and 2020, featuring a strong lesbian protagonist and a bevy of LGBTQ cast members: By 4042 CE, mankind is under the quasi-immortal thumbs of the Hierophant and his army of genetically modified cannibals, martyrs. That same year, General Dominia di Mephitoli flees his bloody regime and plunges headfirst into a globe-trotting odyssey to resurrect her dead wife. Assisted by a motley crew of new friends ranging from a foul-mouthed Japanese prostitute to a suspiciously sapient dog, Dominia is skeptical that any of them can be relied upon, but she needs all the help she can get. After all, Dominia is THE HIEROPHANT'S DAUGHTER--and her father isn't going to let her go without a fight. amazon.com/gp/product/0996539565 | 2019-09-03 07:44:29 | |
| Nicole Field | Possibilities | Self Published | This novelette was originally published with Less Than Three Press in 2018 before it closed. It is speculative fiction that makes normal more taboo areas, such as power exchanges designated in our world to ‘alternative lifestyles’. Possibilities shows a world where a transgender man can be soft, gentle and loving, at the same time as strong. And where the expression of his social anxiety—and the migraines that are often triggered by that—don’t make him any less. It has been self published on Gumtree by the author: https://gumroad.com/boi_nik#wcAdAgumroad.com/boi_nik#wcada | 2019-09-01 16:50:33 | |
| Ekpeki Oghenechovwe | Ife-Iyoku | Selene Quarterly | selenequarterly.com/2019/08/15/selene-qu… | 2019-09-01 02:51:13 | |
| Rokuro Inui | Automatic Eve | Viz/Haikasoru | I haven't read this, but it seems gender-relevant to me, and I've seen some very positive reviews - Bogi. | 2019-08-29 14:39:56 | |
| Sionnain Buckley | Pumpkineater | CutBank | cutbankonline.org/all-accounts/2019/6/al… | 2019-08-29 07:49:59 | |
| Malena Salazar Maciá | The Goddess | SELENE QUARTERLY MAGAZINE | selenequarterly.com/2019/05/15/the-godde… | 2019-08-28 12:10:00 | |
| R J Theodore | Salvage | Parvus Press | 2019-08-28 02:14:51 | ||
| R J Theodore | Flotsam | Parvus Press | 2019-08-28 02:14:28 | ||
| R J Theodore | The Silent Fringe | Creative Jay | books2read.com/silentfringe | 2019-08-28 02:12:24 | |
| R J Theodore | The Bantam | Creative Jay | books2read.com/thebantam | 2019-08-28 02:11:45 | |
| Rivers Solomon | The Deep | Saga Press | 2019-08-27 22:58:38 | ||
| Libia Brenda Castro | Sea Wings | The Airgonaut | theairgonautblog.wordpress.com/2019/07/0… | 2019-08-26 07:22:09 | |
| Elaine Vilar Madruga | Alpha Female | Bitter Oleander | https://www.bitteroleander.com/issues.html | 2019-08-25 16:41:42 | |
| Ketty Steward | HeLa Is Here | Bewildering Stories | bewilderingstories.com/issue819/hela.htm… | 2019-08-25 16:26:20 | |
| Fumiki Takahashi | To the Last Drop | Bewildering Stories | bewilderingstories.com/issue813/last_dro… | 2019-08-25 16:24:32 | |
| Jeanette Winterson | Frankisstein | Grove | 2019-08-24 10:25:41 | ||
| Setsu Uzume | Why I Spared the One Brave Soul Between Me and My Undead Army | Cast of Wonders | castofwonders.org/2019/03/cast-of-wonder… | 2019-08-24 08:48:47 | |
| Wendy Nikel | I Am Fire; I Am Tears | PodCastle | podcastle.org/2019/03/12/podcastle-565-a… | 2019-08-24 08:46:46 | |
| L'Erin Ogle | The Coven of Dead Girls | PseudoPod | pseudopod.org/2019/06/07/pseudopod-651-c… | 2019-08-24 08:37:56 | |
| Sarah Hans | Tiny Teeth | PseudoPod | pseudopod.org/2019/08/09/pseudopod-660-t… | 2019-08-24 08:37:00 | |
| Kurt Hunt | A Real Death | PseudoPod | pseudopod.org/2019/06/28/pseudopod-654-f… | 2019-08-24 08:36:11 | |
| Jeffrey Thomas | The Unnamed Country | Word Horde | wordhorde.com/books/the-unnamed-country/ | 2019-08-24 08:31:17 | |
| Arkady Martine | Memory Called Empire | Tor Books | 2019-08-23 14:01:57 | ||
| Agnes Gomillion | Record Keeper | Titan/Penguin Random House | 2019-08-23 13:59:53 | ||
| Akwaeke Emezi | Pet | Penguin Random House | 2019-08-23 13:50:40 | ||
| Sarah Pinsker | Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea | Small Beer Press | https://www.amazon.com/Sooner-Later-Everything-Falls-Into-ebook/dp/B07KNCSKCN | 2019-08-23 12:08:59 | |
| Benjanun Sriduangkaew | And Shall Machines Surrender | Prime Books | https://beekian.wordpress.com/and-shall-machines-surrender/ | 2019-08-22 08:15:28 | |
| Shayne Silvers | Knightmare | Argento | 2019-08-21 20:25:22 | ||
| Yoon Ha Lee | Dragon Pearl | Rick Riordan Presents | Science fiction & fantasy YA novel with different representation and idea of gender, especially among the fox spirits. | 2019-08-21 16:17:42 | |
| Mary Robinette Kowal | The Calculating Stars | Tor | A Hugo, Nebula, and Locus winning novel that speaks to the place of women in engineering, astronautics, aviation, and navigation in an alternate NASA era.us.macmillan.com/books/9780765378385 | 2019-08-21 14:48:24 | |
| Jesse Teller | Legends of the Exiles | amazon.com/gp/product/b07mtjb4jc/r | 2019-08-21 14:46:30 | ||
| Ava Kelly | Across the Mirror Lake | Other Worlds Ink | Part of the Migration anthology, collecting works from Queer Sci Fi’s Sixth Annual Flash Fiction Contest.avakellyfiction.com/across-the-mirror-la… | 2019-08-19 00:35:24 | |
| Benjanun Sriduangkaew | Where Machines Run with Gold | The Future Fire | futurefire.net/2019.50/fiction/machines.… | 2019-08-15 20:18:19 | |
| Malena Salazar Macia | The Other Me | The Ansible | martinmatthewswrites.com/blog/the-other-… | 2019-08-15 20:00:18 | |
| Sionnain Buckley | Another Genesis | Siren | cantodellasirena.com/another-genesis.htm… | 2019-08-15 19:53:11 | |
| Sionnain Buckley | All Muddle | Strange Horizons | https://strangehorizons.podbean.com/e/all-muddle-by-sionnain-buckley-read-by-the-poet/strangehorizons.com/poetry/all-muddle/ | 2019-08-15 19:25:18 | |
| Caitlin Starling | The Luminous Dead | Harper Voyager | Very complex and messy queer relationship w. power imbalance between the main characters, takes many more risks than I usually see both within genre and elsewhere - B. | 2019-08-15 09:37:47 | |
| Nisi Shawl (ed.) | New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color | Solaris | Indrapramit Das told me their story in this anthology qualified, and there might be even more relevant stories in it too - B. | 2019-08-14 19:30:52 | |
| Amal El-MohtarMax Gladstone | This is How You Lose the Time War | Saga | One of the authors told me this was relevant | 2019-08-14 19:29:15 | |
| Katy Michelle Quinn | Winnie | Eraserhead | Protagonist transitions "from rifle to woman". Bizarro horror by a trans woman author, very unique work | 2019-08-14 19:25:23 | |
| Akwaeke Emezi | Freshwater | Grove | Traditional Nigerian concepts of gender and Western transness + a lot more, with a lot of magic. One of the most unique books I read in recent memory. | 2019-08-14 19:23:34 | |
| Ali Thompson | They don't make plus size spacesuits | Self published | “They don’t make plus size spacesuits” is a sci-fi short story collection, featuring an introductory essay. This book is a incandescent cry from the heart, a radical turn away from utopian daydreaming of future body perfection to center a fat perspective instead. It is a fictional version of a few of the many ways that fatphobia can manifest in a life. The disdain that piles up over the years, until it all becomes too large to bear. The modern day worship of Health promises a future peopled only by the thin, a world where the War on Fatness is won and only visually acceptable bodies remain. What will that future mean for the fat people who will inevitably still continue to exist? Nothing good.amazon.com/they-dont-make-plus-spacesuit… | 2019-08-14 14:53:41 | |
| Alison Wilgus | Chronin (duology) | Tor | 2019-08-14 06:13:57 | ||
| H. Pueyo | Saligia | Samovar | samovar.strangehorizons.com/2019/03/25/s… | 2019-08-13 19:35:07 | |
| Amara Lynn | Rom and Yuli | Self published | books2read.com/u/bxvykq | 2019-08-13 13:23:12 | |
| Nino Cipri | Homesick | Dzanc Books | 2019-08-12 08:21:01 | ||
| M L Clark | And You Will Know Us by Our Monsters | The Future Fire | This contemporary fantasy set in Colombia follows a sex worker who has seen a "monster" appear out of nowhere at difficult moments. When recruited into a government-sponsored gender-issues tour that's also cover for a "monster" hunt, the protagonist struggles with how to share a political banner with feminized persons whose experiences are as distinct as they are... and eventually has to confront whether this mysterious "monster" is really as awful and divisive at it first appeared. "And You Will Know Us by Our Monsters" asks if there's a way to champion others' beastly pasts without presuming that, even under a shared banner, we can ever speak for any story but our own.futurefire.net/2019.50/fiction/monsters.… | 2019-08-11 18:02:10 | |
| Gillian Polack | The Year of the Fruitcake | IFWG Publishing Australia | Publisher's website: https://ifwgaustralia.com/ book page there: https://ifwgaustralia.com/title-the-year-of-the-fruit-cake/ | 2019-08-07 17:03:06 | |
| Nagashiro Rouge | Eve and Eve | Seven Seas | Eve and Eve begins with a provocative story: a science fiction tale about the apocalypse, and two women who love each other through the rebirth of Earth and beyond. The Eve and Eve collection showcases six short stories by the up-and-coming creator Nagashiro Rouge, exploring the more intimate side of women loving women in different lives.sevenseasentertainment.com/series/eve-an… | 2019-08-07 15:44:58 | |
| Jordan Taylor | Strange Engines | Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (issue 39) | This story focuses on the fraught relationship between two queens of a ruthless empire ruled by semi-divine women - an empire whose colonies are revolting and whose steam-powered AI are slowly gaining sentience and beginning to question their subservient roles.smallbeerpress.com/lcrw/2019/02/25/lady-… | 2019-08-04 07:07:10 | |
| RoAnna Sylver | The Three-Body Problem (Interactive Fiction) | Self/Itch.io; adapted to mobile devices by Taptaptap.co | THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM (No relation to the Hugo-winning book!) is a kink-positive, non-explicit piece of interactive fiction involving three queer, trans, polyam witches navigating scary woods, trauma, and each other. Emphasizes kink as not solely sexual, but a state of being that can permeate one's entire life. A meditation on consent, trust, identity, and the simultaneous reality that what appears terrifying or harmful to one person may be another's salvation and bliss--and how to reconcile two opposite, equally valid reactions. It's also just really queer and terribly extra.roannasylver.itch.io/the-three-body-prob… | 2019-08-03 18:40:42 | |
| Tamsyn Muir | Gideon the Ninth | Tor.com | 2019-08-03 14:44:33 | ||
| Claire O'Dell | The Hound of Justice | Harper Voyager | The Hound of Justice is the sequel to Lambda Award winner A Study in Honor. Watson and Holmes are two black queer women, living in a near future US divided by a second Civil War. Publisher's page: https://www.harpervoyagerbooks.com/book/9780062699381/the-hound-of-justice/ | 2019-08-03 03:45:15 | |
| Chace Verity | Dithered Hearts | Self-pub | amazon.com/dithered-hearts-chace-verity-… | 2019-08-02 21:10:28 | |
| Ann Leckie | The Raven Tower | Orbit | 2019-08-02 17:54:22 | ||
| Sheree Renée Thomas | Teddy Bump | FIYAY: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction | "Women to Read" column by A. C. Wise in THE BOOK SMUGGLERS https://www.thebooksmugglers.com/2018/08/women-to-read-august-2018.html Quick Sip Reviews by Charles Payseur http://quicksipreviews.blogspot.com/2018/07/quick-sips-fiyah-magazine-7-music.html 2018 LOCUS Recommended Reading 2019 Darrell Awards First Runner Up in Short Story Categoryfiyahlitmag.com/shop/2018-issues/issue-7… | 2019-08-02 17:26:34 | |
| Kate Heartfield | Alice Payne Rides | Tor.com Publishing | The second of a duology of novellas. https://publishing.tor.com/alicepaynerides-kateheartfield/9781250313768/ | 2019-08-02 17:12:58 | |
| Gail Carriger(writing as G.L. Carriger) | The 5th Gender | This SciFi Mystery Romance from Gail Carriger is, at its core, an exploration of gender, of expectation, of the many ways to love and be loved in the face of adversity and prejudice. 5th Gender manages to accomplish all of this with a rompy flair and trademark Carriger cheek. amazon.com/5th-gender-tinkered-stars-mys… | 2019-07-29 20:10:37 | ||
| Darusha Wehm | The Voyage of the White Cloud | In Potentia Press | Featuring nombinary and other queer characters, transitioning as no-big-deal, and a general lack of toxic masculinity. | 2019-07-25 11:02:37 | |
| Vivek ShrayaNess Lee | Death Threat | Arsenal Pulp Press | arsenalpulp.com/books/d/death-threat | 2019-07-22 12:14:33 | |
| Xemiyulu Tapepechul | Siwayul (Heart of a Womxn) | Kindle Independent Publishing Platform | This theatrical play is a one-womxn choreopoem that centers a Spirit Worker channeling Ancestor to tell the narrative of the homeless migrant Salvadoran Trans Femme. Alex, a young Trans Femme wanders the world alone, guided by the Ancestors, she is able to find herself within her "heart of a womxn" - Siwayul. This magical-realism piece spins poetry, dance, tragedy, music, and ceremony to highlight a unique, Ancestor-centered, way of examining gender as a Brown Trans Woman in a white cis colonized world.nelwatishkamewe.com/siwayul | 2019-07-22 05:30:28 | |
| Kelly Link | The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear | Tin House | tinhouse.com/the-girl-who-did-not-know-f… | 2019-07-18 08:02:43 | |
| K.D. Edwards | The Hanged Man | Pyr | This is the second book in K.D.'s Tarot Sequence series. It's an excellent look at a myriad of male relationships - romantic, brotherly, familial, loyal, friendship. It's gender non conforming in its expectation of men and nonbinary people.amazon.com/hanged-man-tarot-sequence/dp/… | 2019-07-18 05:40:27 | |
| Caitlín Kiernan | The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan | Tachyon Publications LLC | 2019-07-17 06:28:37 | ||
| Kameron Hurley | MEET ME IN THE FUTURE: STORIES | Tachyon Publications LLC | 2019-07-17 06:26:52 | ||
| Woody Dismukes | My Children's Home | LightSpeed Magazine | In a motherless future, is love even possible between those left behind?lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/my-childr… | 2019-07-14 09:37:24 | |
| Vaibhav Saini | Innocence Lives in an Eyrie | Editorial Trance | Innocence Lives in an Eyrie, set in the villages and metropolises across India, revolves around a closeted news anchor with questionable motives who interviews an eighteen-year-old crossdresser claiming responsibility for seven murders. It is a coming-of-age tale examining gender, identity, ambition, first love, friendship, and family obligations in a society mired in superstition and prejudice. Life is a random, meandering epic, making sense as it pleases. Disparate events connect to a single thought in the human mind. Innocence Lives in an Eyrie is crafted to capture this unique emergence of order from chaos. This novel will appeal to those who enjoy literary, multi-cultural, LGBTQ, mythology re-imagined, and experimental fiction. The timely release coincides with the recent elections and socio-political events happening in India. The author, Dr. Vaibhav Saini, grew up in India, and identifies as gay. amazon.com/innocence-lives-eyrie-vaibhav… | 2019-07-04 14:41:49 | |
| Sarah Katz | Apex Five | 2019-07-03 15:24:18 | |||
| E H Timms | Holding Onto Day | Half a lifetime after the Split, when a world of myth and legend took over the night, grieving aro-ace widower Cal winds up snowed in at a waystation with post-breakup aro-allo Evvi. Proximity and patience draw them closer, both in the day when they are human, and at night, when they become vampire and werewolf. smashwords.com/books/view/940812 | 2019-06-30 10:50:35 | ||
| Harry Elliott | Warrior Errant | Guardbridge Books | Warrior Errant tackles issues not just of misogyny and gender inequality in the military, but also goes further to explore the potential future of how we will perceive and experience gender with the exponential development of genetic manipulation and bio-engineering. Hailing from a traditional, patriarchal society, the protagonists are thrown into a world where they must challenge their prejudices and redefine their understanding of the sexes, especially when they encounter a society of genetically augmented humans who have transcended to an entirely new gender.amazon.com/warrior-errant-harry-elliott/… | 2019-06-10 16:11:11 | |
| Amy Brown | A Tale of the Marriage of Gawain | Canberra Science Fiction Guild | In the CSFG Anthology 'A Hand of Knaves' ed. by Leife Shalcross and Chris Large, pp. 23-33csfg.org.au/product/a-hand-of-knaves/ | 2019-06-01 02:25:53 | |
| Alexandra Seidel | J is for... | Poise and Pen Publishing | 2019-05-31 16:04:10 | ||
| Laura Diaz de Arce | Monstrosity | These stories go bump in the night, and make us feel chills.amazon.com/monstrosity-laura-diaz-arce/d… | 2019-05-11 08:53:16 | ||
| Laurie J. Marks | Air Logic | Small Beer Press | 2019-05-10 08:35:24 | ||
| Elvia Wilk | Oval | Soft Skull Press | With Oval, Elvia Wilk takes the countless absurdities of our everyday living under capitalism to heightened extremes to create a deeply moving examination of the asymmetries that shape our reality, and the precarious, power imbalances that form our relationships to that which surrounds us, from romantic partners to the environment to the corporations moving shiftily beneath every step we take in this increasingly mediated world. Oval asks questions of sustainability and gentrification, of disruption and greed—but put aside the glossy veneer of innovation and you’ll find a profoundly human story. | 2019-05-07 11:44:53 | |
| Bruce Cinnamon | The Melting Queen | NeWest Press | Every year since 1904, when the ice breaks up on the North Saskatchewan River, Edmonton has crowned a Melting Queen—a woman who presides over the Melting Day spring carnival and who must keep the city’s spirits up over the following winter. But this year, something has changed: a genderfluid ex-frat brother called River Runson is named as Melting Queen. As River's reign upends the city's century-old traditions, Edmonton tears itself in two, with progressive and reactionary factions fighting a war for Edmonton's soul. Ultimately, River must uncover the hidden history of Melting Day, forcing Edmonton to confront the dark underbelly of its traditions and leading the city into a new chapter in its history. Balancing satire with compassion, Bruce Cinnamon’s debut novel combines history and magic to weave a splendid future-looking tale. | 2019-05-06 10:43:18 | |
| Olga Werby | Lizard Girl & Ghost: The Chronicles of DaDA Immortals | CreateSpace | This is a story about grief and overcoming death...via digital life extension. Can a human be a human without the "wetworks"? The story explores possible futures of life and identity in a world where all lines are blurred.amazon.com/gp/product/b07fbr7q1t/ | 2019-05-05 09:04:57 | |
| K.L. Noone | A Demon for Midwinter | JMS Books | An aging rock star, the (literal) demon he falls in love with, the (also literal) power of empathy, and romance, with gay/pansexual/genderfluid representation.amazon.com/demon-midwinter-k-l-noone-ebo… | 2019-05-02 12:12:34 | |
| K.L. Noone | Elemental | JMS Books | Paranormal romance with bi/gay main characters, and a theme of ghosts and forgiveness.amazon.com/elemental-k-l-noone-ebook/dp/… | 2019-05-02 12:06:36 | |
| K.L. Noone | A Prophecy for Two | Quill | A fairy-tale romance, with a late-medieval/early-modern setting, involving two princes - one from Fairyland, across the border - and a dragon and a quest and True Love. Side characters and the bonus story also have gay, bi, and ace representation, and happy endings.amazon.com/prophecy-two-k-l-noone/dp/194… | 2019-05-02 11:46:11 | |
| K.L. Noone | Sundown, Holiday, Beacon | Less Than Three Press | Part of the Happiness in Numbers polyamory anthology edited by Nicole Field, this story offers a loving look at an M/M/M triad - involving a superhero, a former sidekick, and a redeemed supervillian, and the uses of superpowers for domestic purposes like home renovation.lessthanthreepress.com/books/index.php?m… | 2019-05-02 11:36:19 | |
| Cindy Zhang | The Network | Less Than Three Press | lessthanthreepress.com/books/index.php?m… | 2019-05-01 22:49:36 | |
| Meg Elison | The Book of Flora | 47North | Pretty much the definition of exploring and expanding ideas about gender! The characters of many & varied genders wander to different cities & colonies which have very different ideas about the meaning & role of gender. And what roles the various genders are expected to play. The characters who in some way aren't men can't assume much about how they will be treated. They have intense relationships with each other as well. | 2019-05-01 13:45:10 | |
| Debbie Urbanski | How To Kiss A Hojacki | Fantasy & Science Fiction | This story examines how radical transformations affect long-term relationships and love, especially when only one person in a relationship is being transformed. The story also brings up questions about power dynamics in marriage, spousal obligations, and coercive sex in committed relationships. | 2019-05-01 08:15:44 | |
| Heron Greenesmith | Ten for Ever and Ever for Tenner | The Piltdown Review | She had lived in her little valley, alone, for twenty years, fending for herself. Then she saw the telltale plume of smoke. https://www.piltdownreview.com/2019/01/ten-for-ever-and-ever-for-tenner.htmlpiltdownreview.com/2019/01/ten-for-ever-… | 2019-04-30 09:26:43 | |
| Izzy Wasserstein | The Crafter at the Web's Great | Apex Magazine | apex-magazine.com/the-crafter-at-the-hea… | 2019-04-30 06:47:02 | |
| Eris Young | Meules | 404 Ink | This short story was published in 2019 as part of an anthology of queer writing by queer authors, the anthology We Were Always Here. I produced this story with the guidance of author Kirsty Logan, as part of a mentorship scheme called the Queer Words Project Scotland. 404ink.com/store/we-were-always-here-que… | 2019-04-28 23:41:41 | |
| Eris Young | The Archivist | Knight Errant Press - as part of anthology "F, M or Other: Quarrels with the Gender Binary" | This is a short story published in 2018 as part of an anthology of stories, essays and poems exploring gender and the gender binary. The story has been read by Bogi in the past as a submission to the best trans/genderqueer SFF of 2018 anthology (though it wasn't featured in that anthology).theselkie.co.uk/the-archivist/ | 2019-04-28 23:31:55 | |
| Xan West | Nine of Swords, Reversed | Xan West | A fantasy romance between two genderfluid disabled mages, that focuses on the way toxic masculinity and internalized ableism can work in tandem with trauma to create magical problems and relationship problems. amazon.com/gp/product/b07mnjvp32/ | 2019-04-28 22:18:41 | |
| Erika Shepherd | Exodus | Take Flight Games | Exodus is a tabletop RPG story game about trans angels on the run in a society that has turned against you. It's a story of angels on the road, making community as they go, and trying to find somewhere better. It's a game rooted in a time, an autobiography and a plan and a dream and a fear all in one. Inspired by Ezra Furman's 2018 album Transangelic Exodus, itself a "queer outlaw saga", players build their characters based on four playbooks, and share control of setting elements and the plot of the story they tell together. As a trans woman, the metaphor of persecuted angels on the run and trying to find safety and community in eachother, in a country turned against them, is a powerful way to explore gender and trans identity in America today.fadingroots.itch.io/exodus | 2019-04-28 18:31:55 | |
| Olivia Sitter | Shoots in the Trellis | Less Than Three Press | Editor: Nicole Fieldlessthanthreepress.com/books/index.php?m… | 2019-04-28 16:23:01 | |
| L. Rowyn | Demon's Lure | Delight-in-Books | Sunrise never wanted to be a demon hunter -- but demons rarely care what people what. (Cast includes a bisexual protagonist, enby supporting characters, and an antagonist of a species that does not have sexual reproduction.) books2read.com/demonslure | 2019-04-28 15:10:33 | |
| Alexandra Seidel | You Are Bleeding | Fireside Quarterly | Fireside Quarterly, April 2019 Issuestore.firesidefiction.com/collections/ba… | 2019-04-28 14:53:50 | |
| Brooklyn Ray | Port Lewis Witches, Volume One | NineStar Press | Collection of short and novella length fiction featuring DARKLING and UNDERTOW with ownvoices trans masculine representation. amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1949909212/ref=dbs_a_… | 2019-04-28 14:11:32 | |
| Mady GJ. R. Zuckerberg | A Quick and Easy Guide to Queer and Trans Identities | Limerence Press | 2019-04-28 13:38:00 | ||
| INNOCENT ILO | Of Warps And Wefts | Strange Horizons | Of Warps And Wefts weaves a whimsical world where people exist in two genders. strangehorizons.com/fiction/of-warps-and… | 2019-04-28 12:44:09 | |
| Olga Werby | Harvest | Pipsqueak Productions LLC | Readers’ Favorite 5-star review: "This novel is a deep and meaningful exploration of the complexities regarding the origins of the human race as well as the intentions of an alien species."amazon.com/gp/product/b07r8hgkwn/ | 2019-04-28 12:03:45 | |
| Polenth Blake | Werecockroach | Self-published | Multiply marginalized agender protagonist, diverse cast | 2019-04-25 14:40:36 | |
| Ada Hoffmann | The Outside | Angry Robot | Queer autistic protagonist, multiple QUILTBAG+ characters | 2019-04-25 14:36:50 | |
| Sean Grigsby | Daughters of Forgotten Light | Angry Robot | daughters of forgotten light https://www… | 2019-04-24 17:02:34 | |
| Vandana Singh | Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories | 2019-04-22 09:33:39 | |||
| Ruthanna Emrys | Deep Roots | 2019-04-22 09:32:15 | |||
| Laura Ruth Loomis | In the Flesh | On the Premises | A near future where people can hide behind their avatars offline, and no one is what they seem.onthepremises.com/issues/issue-33/issue-… | 2019-04-15 15:19:04 | |
| Joyce Chng | Silver Wings | The Future Fire | An unusual superheroes short story. And a community of super-supportive older superheroesfuturefire.net/2019.48/fiction/silverwin… | 2019-04-05 06:29:29 | |
| Megan Derr | The Mercenaries of the Stolen Moon | Less Than Three Press | lessthanthreepress.com/books/index.php?m… | 2019-03-31 18:51:53 | |
| Edale Lane | Heart of Sherwood | Less Than Three Press | lessthanthreepress.com/books/index.php?m… | 2019-03-31 18:50:46 | |
| Megan Derr | Dragon Magic | Less Than Three Press | lessthanthreepress.com/books/index.php?m… | 2019-03-31 18:49:40 | |
| J Hepburn | Well Met in Molos | Less Than Three Press | lessthanthreepress.com/books/index.php?m… | 2019-03-31 18:48:54 | |
| Nem Rown | Rough Sleepers | Less Than Three Press | lessthanthreepress.com/books/index.php?m… | 2019-03-31 18:48:03 | |
| Robin TennantCaitlin Ricci | Outcasts: Beginnings | Less Than Three Press | lessthanthreepress.com/books/index.php?m… | 2019-03-31 18:45:52 | |
| Geneva Vand | Granola Bars and Spaceships | Less Than Three Press | lessthanthreepress.com/books/index.php?m… | 2019-03-31 18:44:36 | |
| Kaelan Rhywiol | Blood-Bound | NineStar Press | Non-binary aro ace MC using she/her pronouns.ninestarpress.com/product/blood-bound/ | 2019-03-23 16:09:07 | |
| Oghenechovwe Ekpeki | The Witching Hour | Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores | cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/fiction… | 2019-03-22 20:01:48 | |
| Samantha Heuwagen | Fading Starlight | Trifecta Publishing | Earth is but a shadow of itself as three Humans begin to pick up both the pieces of war-torn Earth and their shattered lives. Kayin Aves finds herself on Selucia with no word on whether or not she’ll be able to return to her beloved planet. With such uncertainty, her fear causes her to push away any La’Mursian that might help her fight for Earth. The inner strength she finds through the challenges of learning all the ways of the La’Mursian court help her discover what she can do to put an end this war. When Beenishia set up a base camp for survivors, she knew it’d be a target–she just didn’t calculate the full cost. Because of her sort sightedness, Henry and Melissa realize that war is more than just gunfire and explosions. Psychological tactics threaten to tear the | 2019-03-22 19:25:42 | |
| JD Scott | The Hand That Sews | Mississippi Review | Gorgeous lyrical slipstream story exploring a complex view of motherhood, womanhood, and the harrowing subject matter of school shootings.sites.usm.edu/mississippi-review/ | 2019-03-22 18:27:47 | |
| Rachel Plummer | Wain | The Emma Press | 2019-03-22 18:14:04 | ||
| Natalia Theodoridou | Poems Written While | Uncanny Magazine | This is a post-apocalyptic tale that dwells on hope. The hope that our perception of gender can be nothing more than our bodies as ongoing process, the allegiances we make through these bodies, and the momentary glimpses into a future when this process feels at once unachievable and comforting. Glimpses akin to the memory of glimmering stars painstakingly preserved by the story's protagonist in the midst of a starless world. The piece gently interweaves a felt contemplation on transitioning with repeated attempts at remembering verses for/about/through the stars.uncannymagazine.com/article/poems-writte… | 2019-03-17 10:30:57 | |
| Sarah Katz | Apex Five | amazon.com/apex-five-plane-book-1-ebook/… | 2019-02-27 15:10:09 | ||
| Abhishek Sengupta | The Swing | Fairfield Scribes | A beautiful and poetic exploration of identity, memory, and love.amazon.com/when-now-time-travel-antholog… | 2019-02-27 11:28:04 | |
| Abi Andrews | The Word for Woman is Wilderness | Two Dollar Radio | twodollarradio.com/collections/forthcomi… | 2019-02-20 15:46:57 | |
| Trevor Barton | Brobots: The Complete Source Code | Beaten Track Publishing | Explores robot male constructs/construction workers coming alive to feeling. Parallels to gay/LGBT rights struggles of the past. Their base AI is designated female but shuns gender at the end. Gender is part of the character studies, for example Josh not being sure of his sexuality. Discussion of maleness, "bro" culture, technosexuality and more.beatentrackpublishing.com/?ref=brobots | 2019-02-13 08:27:57 | |
| Arwen Dayton | Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful | Random House Children's Books/Delacorte Press | This novel leads steadily into a world where the ability to modify the human body and manipulate human DNA have infiltrated every aspect of life. If you can change your own body, gender, and genes, that is an invitation to unprecedented personal freedom. But...what if you can be forcibly changed? What if your parents can choose who you ought to be before you are born? What if a future government can strip you of your identity—human identity, gender identity, or sexual identity? What if you can keep dead loved ones alive inside yourself? What do you become? Even if this book didn't set out explicitly to explore gender, it was in the background throughout, a looming context in the unfolding of an unexpected future of humankind.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/570018/stro… | 2019-02-08 11:45:26 | |
| Brenda Clough | The River Twice | Book View Cafe | A novel about women and power.bookviewcafe.com/bookstore/book/the-rive… | 2019-02-02 08:26:04 | |
| Alice Sola Kim | Now Wait For This Week | The Cut | thecut.com/2019/01/now-wait-for-this-wee… | 2019-01-30 17:19:09 | |
| Debbie Urbanski | You | The Sun | A mother struggles to come to terms with her daughter's changing and fantastical form.thesunmagazine.org/issues/517/you | 2019-01-07 11:45:26 | |
| Xemiyulu Tapepechul | The Cosmic Twins | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | Play for young audiences featuring Two-Spirit characters, written by a Two-Spirit playwright. Our theatre company produced this play November 2018 for 10 performances, to over 1,000 youth.amazon.com/cosmic-twins-xemiyulu-manibus… | 2018-12-20 21:49:28 | |
| Sara Codair | Power Surge (The Evanstar Chronicles) | NineStar Press | This is an urban fantasy novel with a main character who does not identify as male or female. amazon.com/power-surge-evanstar-chronicl… | 2018-12-17 08:29:46 | |
| Brooklyn Ray | Port Lewis Witches, Volume One | NineStar Press | A contemporary fantasy romance novel with a fantastic trans rep amazon.com/port-lewis-witches-one-brookl… | 2018-12-17 08:26:15 | |
| J. S. Fields | Ardulum: Third Don | NineStar Press | This is the third book in series. The first two Ardulum: First Don and Ardulum: Second Don, were published in 2017. They all explore gender in a science fiction setting. amazon.com/gp/product/b07d7gcd81/ref=ser… | 2018-12-17 08:22:34 | |
| Brian Andrews | RESET | Thomas & Mercer | amazon.com/reset-brian-andrews-ebook/dp/… | 2018-12-04 08:40:52 | |
| Lora Gray | The Imitation Sea | Shimmer Magazine | Gorgeous exploration of gender, of protectiveness, of love. shimmerzine.com/the-imitation-sea/ | 2018-12-03 14:08:30 |