Anna-Marie McLemoreElliott McLemoreVenom & Vow Feiwel & FriendsVenom & Vow is an enchanting story, told from two points of view: Valencia, who sometimes appears as female, but sometimes as male; and Cade, a prince of a neighboring kingdom who was assigned as female at birth. Their parents are under a mysterious curse which each believes the other to have cast; their homelands are in an ongoing struggle for dominance; Cade is forced to impersonate his brother, who is uninterested in ruling and falls prey to the machinations of a scheming cousin. Oh, and Valencia’s best friend, the princess, is engaged to Cade’s brother. 2023-12-31 17:00:37Emily TeshSome Desperate GloryTor.comAll her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the all-powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the Majoda their victory over humanity. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. But when Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to the nursery to bear sons until she dies trying, she knows she must take humanity’s revenge into her own hands. A thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is award-winning author Emily Tesh’s highly anticipated debut novel.2023-12-31 14:17:35Cadwell TurnbullWe are the CrisisBlackstoneIn We Are the Crisis—the second book in the Convergence Saga from award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull—humans and monsters come into conflict in a magical and dangerous world as civil rights collide with preternatural forces.2023-12-31 14:13:44Aubrey WoodBang Bang BodhisattvaSolarisA cyberpunk noir whodunit thriller with a trans protagonist and an ace protagonist, shitty violent cops and a capitalism-continued-getting-worse increasingly-fascist near-future. The author described it in an interview with Fantasy Hive as: “Bang Bang Bodhisattva is a queer-cyberpunk-noir-buddy-comedy-murder-mystery about a cringefail trans girl hacker, a Humphrey Bogart cosplayer, and the friends they make along the way. You will either completely love it or you will feverishly hate it.”2023-12-31 12:36:25Andrew Joseph WhiteThe Spirit Bears its TeethPenguin Random HouseDedicated to “the kids with open wounds they’re still looking to stich closed”, Andrew Joseph White describes himself as writing “about trans kids with claws and fangs, and what happens when they bite back”. In his note about content warnings, he says this a book about misogyny, transphobia, and ableism from the perspective of an autistic transgender boy. It has a thematic focus on the violent enforcement of gender roles and Victorian-era psychiatry as tools of oppression. London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old trans, autistic Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife.2023-12-31 12:11:13Deya MunizThe Princess and the Grilled Cheese SandwichLittle, Brown InkGraphic novel romcom. A young woman disguised as a man. An activist princess. Lots of cheese. It plays with the tropes and has fun, without sticking very rigidly to fantasy or fairy tale rules. I think the jury will have fun reading it.2023-12-31 11:10:50Leanbh Pearson“An Unnatural Woman”Nightmare Fuel Magazine Published online as part of “Don’t Let Them In”. A dark historical reimagining of witchcraft fear throughout history focused on New England, USA region. The fear of independent, knowledgeable women, healers and midwives. Misogyny and persecution of women who didn’t fit the idealised woman.2023-12-30 20:46:22Emily H. WilsonInannaTitan BooksA retelling of one of the oldest surviving works of literature, The Epic of Gilgamesh, that focuses on the lesser known story and perspective of Inanna, the goddess of love.2023-12-29 13:10:10Genevieve GornichecThe Weaver and the Witch QueenTitan BooksHistorical fantasy set in tenth century Norway, in which Oddny and Gunnhild meet as young girls with very different desires for their futures - Oddny hopes for a quiet life, while Gunnhild burns for power and longs to escape her cruel mother. As they grow older, the bonds that hold the two women together are strong, and when they find their way back to each other, they're tested in ways they never could have foreseen in this deeply moving novel of magic, history, and sworn sisterhood.2023-12-29 13:06:07Courtney SmythThe UndetectablesTitan BooksFantasy murder mystery about a detective agency run by three witches and a ghost in a cat costume, with a cast of queer characters and themes of found families and queer friendship and community.2023-12-29 13:01:08G.R. MacallisterArcaTitan BooksThe second book in an epic fantasy series that explores a matriarchal society of Five Queendoms, in which a centuries-long peace is shattered when a decade passes without a single girl being born. In this second book in the series, a queen vows to make her son the nation's first ruling King or die trying.2023-12-29 12:57:28AJ GlasserWitch King's OathAJ GlasserReminiscent of the Tamir Triad by Lynn Flewelling, and yet entirely its own unique tale of witchcraft and wizardry, Witch King’s Oath explores the story of a woman cursed to grow up in a man’s body, never feeling quite right about him/herself, yet never understanding why.2023-12-29 12:11:31Heather O'MalleyHands of the MorriBold Strokes BooksNot only does O’Malley address the gender issue, but she makes it significant without falling into the trap of making this a story about gender. I loved the idea of Lost Sisters, the aspect of being touched by the Goddess, and loved even more that transwomen like Asche were wholly accepted and embraced by the Hands. That simplicity speaks volumes.2023-12-29 12:08:25Leanbh PearsonEdited by J.S. Breukelaar“The Carnival Girl”Australasian Horror Writers AssociationMidnight Echo 18: CURSED. The official magazine of the Australasian Horror Writers Association, featuring short fiction, poetry and non-fiction from some of Australasia's best writers of dark fiction. “Carnival Girl” winner of 2022 AHWA Robert N Stephenson Flash Fiction Award. A dark dystopian fantasy exploring gender, LGBTQI persecution.2023-12-28 21:28:38Julianna BaggottThe WickUnderland PressSF novella that explores the relationship between being and machine. Roon is a cacheme, an organic human born of inorganic human extravagance. Her memory erased, she has only one clue to her past: her name. No longer of use to the people who created her, she wakes up in a glass box in a room full of girls in glass boxes, far away from the people and places that formed her identity, her past. Bukef is a hull—part-beast, part-war-machine. Hulls are built to bond with soldiers, their wicks, for life. But as Bukef and Roon search for sanctuary, they find something in each other that shows them a path toward self-reliance and self-determination. 2023-12-28 08:55:50Ember RandallNotes from a trans-inclusive gender apocalypseCast of WondersThere are many stories that explore gender- and sex-based apocalypse scenarios, but this one explores it properly, with an understanding of the real nuances of gender.2023-12-28 07:31:35Riley TaoBoth Hope and BreathCast of WondersA touching story of social transition and friendship in the face of an unsupportive family2023-12-28 07:29:06Stewart C BakerMagic Dad's Cookie BitesCosmorama2023-12-27 10:31:08Chinelo OnwualuEx Marginalia: Essays from the Edges of Speculative FictionHydra House BooksWhile speculative fiction is justly lauded for its progressive ideas and ideals, it has too often and for too long failed to include the voices of those who aren’t white or cis male. With the dawn of the 21st century, however, marginalized groups have challenged the genre’s status quo with renewed vigor—forging, reimagining, and expanding new paths—to take their rightful place in the field. But the work is not done. Edited by Chinelo Onwualu, Hydra House Books introduces Ex Marginalia, a collection of essays by writers from identities routinely excluded or ignored by the speculative fiction community. These voices are vital to the present and the future of the genre. And they cannot—will not—remain any longer in the margins. A portion of the proceeds from sales of Ex Marginalia will benefit the Carl Brandon Society.2023-12-27 09:55:52Natalia TheodoridouLove at the Event HorizonUncanny MagazineA transmasculine protagonist, queer love, grief and hope in space, against the background of decomposing films. 2023-12-27 08:34:10Raine RilleraA Symphony of Suns(The First Movement)8Letters Bookstore and PublishingThe novella "A Symphony of Suns: The First Movement" imagines the beginnings and growing pains of such a solar-punk society and how darkness can still lurk beneath the brilliance of three suns. 2023-12-27 05:29:58Holly Lyn WalrathBone LightTenebrous PressAn icy surf batters Bone Light as its beacon calls to weary souls at sea. This edifice built of bone and wretchedness sits atop a cursed rock, surrounded by death, watched over by the ghosts of light-keepers past. Their records tell of the inhospitable environment, but it is Mary Long’s writings that show the heart. Misfortune necessitates the arrival of her dear Ida, laying bear to the obstacles that shaped their history—a husband and taboo among them. These log entries illuminate Mary’s world—the banality, the heartbreak, the magic. In “Bone Light,” a beacon of death might finally be the thing to give life to a long-denied romance.2023-12-26 18:55:12Emily WynnePrincess of the Pomegranate MoonBalance of Seven2023-12-25 10:32:43Shelley Parker-ChanHe Who Drowned the WorldTorAn exploration of the performance of gender, desire and power by queer (genderfluid, gender nonconforming, trans, same-sex attracted) and marginalised individuals within the strict patriarchy of imperial China, ending with an alternate ending to the real history of the period in which a genderfluid character becomes emperor and brings a more inclusive world into being 2023-12-24 14:55:34Jared Shurin (editor)KC AlexanderCandas Jane DorseyIsabel FallEileen GunnGwyneth JonesJames Tiptree JrM. Lopes da SilvaMishaSunny MoraineJanelle MonaeAlaya Dawn JohnsonJustina Robsonand many othersThe Big Book of CyberpunkVintageMassive and far-ranging book on the controversial genre, with a focus on demonstrating the role of previously excluded or marginalised communities in building and maintaining the movement. Also links cyberpunk specifically to the science fiction of identity and culture, with stories that demonstrate how literature helps us understand, accept and forge forward2023-12-24 06:46:00Ava KellyTake Your SeatTake Your Seat is a speculative story published in Transoughts, a special edition (#25) of the Konstruksjon zine, in Bergen, Norway, on 22 May 2023. The issue compiles texts and artwork from a group of transgender and nonbinary writers and artists. The story was performed live during the event Prøverommet at Bergen Assembly and is accompanied by a visual piece (digital painting mixed with photography).2023-12-24 04:47:41Kes Otter Lieffehome is a verbActive distributionIn a shifting world, marginalised characters must face their traumas and embrace change. In their search for healing, they are brought together, finding home in the least expected of places. Written from a transfeminine, working-class, and chronically ill perspective, this new novel from ecologist, Kes Otter Lieffe explores burnout and despair, collective collapse and recovery. The first-person narrative allows an exploration of the narrator / protagonist's embodied and socialised experiences of gender, while avoiding the diversion of imposing third person labels. The story centres on trans and non-binary characters, with all their complexities and struggles for survival in a transphobic world. Through Sasu, an animist cant slang, a community at the edge rediscover their connections to each other and to the living world they belong to. 2023-12-24 02:23:36J.A.W. McCarthyThe Only Thing Different Will Be the BodyA Woman Built by Man (anthology)2023-12-23 14:20:48Shanna HeathMiss Infection USAOther Terrors (anthology)Exploring the fetishization and exploitation of beauty pageants in a postapocalyptic zombie future.2023-12-23 14:19:24Leanna Renee Hieber Andrea JanesA Haunted History of Invisible WomenCitadel PressFrom the notorious Lizzie Borden to the innumerable, haunted rooms of Sarah Winchester's mysterious mansion this offbeat, insightful, first-ever book of its kind explores the history behind America's female ghosts, the stereotypes, myths, and paranormal tales that swirl around them, what their stories reveal about us—and why they haunt us.2023-12-23 14:16:29Lisa KrogerMelanie AndersonToil and TroubleQuirkA celebration of magical women and nonbinary people in American history, from Salem to WitchTok.2023-12-23 14:14:45R.J. JosephHell Hath No Sorrow like a Woman Haunted The Seventh Terraceshowcasing myriad aspects of the Black female experience2023-12-23 14:10:49Ariel Marken JackThe Bleak Communion of Abandoned ThingsPseudoPodThe internal and external prison walls of abusive relationships.2023-12-23 14:08:21Shannyn CampbellTaxiptómyPseudoPodThe fetishization and exploitation of women in art.2023-12-23 14:06:34S.H. CooperElle TurpittA Woman Built By ManCemetery Gates MediaA Woman Built By Man is a collage of 21 horror tales that seek to crawl under the skin and deconstruct the many ways women are built up and broken down by a patriarchal society. And the many ways they’re finally saying, “Enough.” https://pseudopod.org/2022/11/18/pseudopod-839-the-only-thing-different-will-be-the-body/2023-12-23 14:03:53Lee MurrayAngela Yuriko SmithUnquiet SpiritsBlack Spot BooksEssays by Asian Women in Horror. From hungry ghosts, vampiric babies, and shapeshifting fox spirits to the avenging White Lady of urban legend, for generations, Asian women’s roles have been shaped and defined through myth and story. In Unquiet Spirits, Asian writers of horror reflect on the impact of superstition, spirits, and the supernatural in this unique collection of 21 personal essays exploring themes of otherness, identity, expectation, duty, and loss, and leading, ultimately, to understanding and empowerment.2023-12-23 13:54:54Donyae ColesThe Ascension of MagdelineNightmare Magazine2023-12-23 13:51:35Chuck TingleCamp DamascusTor NightfireYA novel that follows kids that have been through the Camp Damascus program that has a touted 100% success rate for conversion therapy.2023-12-23 13:47:36Jessi Ann YorkDimorphismSeasons of Severance, Cemetery Gates MediaExplores cannibalism during motherhood and genetic modification in males to prevent consumption during mating.2023-12-23 13:42:56Kelsea Yu Wanted: Bone-White Skull-Patterned Lace TrimPseudoPodExplores the internal and external expectations society sets on motherhood.2023-12-23 13:39:49Cynthia ZhangWe, the Ones Who Raised Sam Gowers from the DeadPseudoPodExplores the anger that swirls around trans rights2023-12-23 13:38:16Jess WhitecroftOf Dark That BitesPseudoPod2023-12-23 13:35:24Geoff RymanHIMAngry Robot BooksAn alternate history SF novel that examines what it would mean if Mary of Nazareth had given birth to a girl rather than a boy. Her child, Avigail soon identifies as male to become "the Son of Adam". The book investigates gender and belief.2023-12-23 06:45:27Wendy PalmerFair HavenWinterbourne PublishingHazel lives a comfortable life in Haven, a stronghold with its very own Mancer, a highly-prized magical engineer. But when a runaway Mancer pleads for sanctuary, zhey bring the threat of invasion in zheir wake. Ash is disruptive to Hazel's peaceful routine in more ways than one. Could this be the start of something precious...or the end of everything he holds dear? From review by AncientReader (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200353396-fair-haven): [The author] looooooooooooves to mess with gender. The Mancers are nonbinary; several of the characters are trans or anyway gender nonconforming (whatever that means when there are gender norms but no one in Fair Haven seems to have any interest in requiring anyone to abide by them), and their genders are treated as such a matter of fact that if you blink you'll miss the clues.2023-12-23 02:12:24Aimee Ogden Emergent PropertiesTor.com2023-12-23 01:18:19Veo CorvaThe Beautiful DecayWitch Key Fiction2023-12-22 19:50:14Brenda CloughA Deal in Her PocketBook View CafeA book about the balance of power and love. Star is the ruler of a country in Southeast Asia, and she has to figure out how to manage the expectations of her society and still achieve personal happiness. The solution may be intensely creative: to marry three guys.2023-12-22 19:43:02Valerie ValdesWhere Peace Is LostHarper Voyager2023-12-22 19:33:26Nghi VoMammoths at the GatesTordotcom2023-12-22 19:32:02Moniquill BlackgooseTo Shape a Dragon's BreathDel ReyA young Indigenous woman enters a colonizer-run dragon academy—and quickly finds herself at odds with the “approved” way of doing things—in the first book of this brilliant new fantasy series. The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generations—until fifteen-year-old Anequs finds a dragon’s egg and bonds with its hatchling. Her people are delighted, for all remember the tales of the days when dragons lived among them and danced away the storms of autumn, enabling the people to thrive. To them, Anequs is revered as Nampeshiweisit—a person in a unique relationship with a dragon.2023-12-22 19:30:25Kate ElliottThe Keeper's SixTordotcom2023-12-22 19:27:51K.B. WagersGhosts of TrappistHarper Voyager2023-12-22 19:25:31Annalee NewitzThe TerraformersTor Books2023-12-22 19:23:26Eugen BaconThe Devil Don’t Come With HornsHarperCollins PublishersPublished in Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology, HarperCollins Publishers, July 2022, Edited by By Vince A. Liaguno, Rena Mason. A child discovers in a hard way that not every 'other' is a devil. 2023-12-22 17:43:38Eugen BaconHuman BeansEuropean Astrobiology Institute and Laksa MediaPublished in Life Beyond Us, an anthology by the European Astrobiology Institute and Laksa Media, edited by Julie Nováková and Lucas Law. 'Human Beans' is a short story about belonging, feeling displaced, unnoticed, from the eyes of protagonist Wema. It's about the existence of another Earth—what if higher beings understood a solution to our current Earth’s problems (war, poverty, climate change, disease…) and could introduce us to a Super Earth in a different dimension? 2023-12-22 17:36:39Eugen BaconSina, the Child With No EchoAndroid PressThemes: ‘Othering’. Longing and belonging, engaging with difference. The unexpected hero/ine. The story of a family that finds itself. In Ekwukwe, the hollow planet, a child is born without an echo. Sina is abandoned as a baby at the edge of the desert forest, but none of the creatures can sense him, because he has no echo. His childless aunt Zawa-Zawa, who is a keeper of knowledge and also a member of the federation of planets, rescues him and raises him as her own. Being without echo turns out to be a gift. Sina becomes a skilled beast hunter, until he meets his match in the carnivorous Impudu-pudu, ultrasensitive to echo and vibration. To outwit the beast, he must join forces with his estranged birth sister Rehema’re—who is gifted with magical echo.2023-12-22 17:24:52Eugen BaconSerengottiTransit Lounge PublishingThemes: Writing the ‘other’, betwixt, queer, love, betrayal, superstition, African spirituality, ghost story, magical realism. In the one tumultuous day, Ch’anzu loses hir job and finds wife Scarlet in bed with a stranger. As life unexpectedly spirals out of control, Ch’anzu turns to charismatic Aunt Maé for comfort and wisdom, and makes the bold move to work on a project in Serengotti, a migrant African outpost in rural Australia. In a novel haunted by the strangeness and yearnings of a displaced community – both beautiful and fractured – Ch’anzu is forced to confront hir many demons. This is a novel bathed in sensuous, original language, a love letter to the strong women who bind families together despite everything. It’s also a tender remembrance of the many who haven’t or couldn’t survive the dislocations and tragedies of their turbulent pasts.2023-12-22 17:15:21Ruth JoffreA Girl Defines HerselfNightmareA story that riffs off the fact that the OED lists the etymology of the word "girl" as "origin unknown" to tell an empowering story about a girl who is also an ancient flesh-eating demon.2023-12-22 17:08:43Iori KusanoHybrid HeartNeon Hemlock"A near-future but all too contemporary story of how young women are exploited and manipulated, this searing and ultimately hopeful story is an absorbing read." — Martha Wells2023-12-22 14:43:52Nicola GriffithMenewoodMCD2023-12-22 13:45:56Aurora MattiaThe Fifth WoundNightboat Books “Featuring time travel, medieval nuns, knifings, and t4t romance, The Fifth Wound indulges the blur between fantasy and reality. Its winding sentences open like portals, inviting the reader into the intimacy of embodiment—both its pain and its pleasures.“2023-12-22 13:30:49Mika HorvathSharptoothPepperback Press, Inc.Description of book: Sharptooth runs through the forest under the light of the moon and spends each day hiding from the sun in the burnt ruins of her family home. One night she braves the cobblestone streets of the nearby town and stumbles upon a silver-haired girl in a walled garden. Lyssa's parents couldn't stand to see her wither away, so they have left her with only a maid for company. She thinks her unusual new friend is just the thing to distract her in her final days...but Sharptooth has other plans. When Lyssa's parents return with a dangerous stranger, the girls will risk everything to seize control of their destinies and create a new future together.2023-12-22 13:05:07Henry HokeOpen ThroatMCD2023-12-22 13:02:50B. PladekDry LandUniversity of Wisconsin Press2023-12-22 12:46:32Nelly Geraldine García-RosasI Gave You a Key and You Opened the Darkness
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 I Gave You a Name and You Called the DarknessIF not gamesAn interactive fiction piece about chosen names, belonging, memories, and returning to the family home after coming out. The reader/player has three different choices to make in the end: keeping their chosen name, re-appropriating their given name, or freeing themself of the burdens imposed by others.2023-12-22 11:57:03Em X. LiuIf Found, Return to HellRebellion PublishingWritten in second person, the gender of our jaded protagonist is kept ambiguous throughout the entire story. It's not even like it's kept secret on purpose—it's just never directly relevant. I've seen comments online saying that some of the Chinese endearments used are masculine and some are feminine; I don't know Chinese so can't verify this myself. But it's the only use of gendered language around the protagonist, which I find an intriguing and remarkable feat of writing. In addition to all that, the story itself is heartwarming and funny and one of the best cozy fantasies I've read in a while.2023-12-22 11:55:57JD ScottThe Selkie of the City Tells AllFairy Tale Review — The Rainbow Issue 2023-12-22 11:37:52Martha WellsSystem CollapseTordotcomWhen I saw the casting for Murderbot and found myself outraged, I realized how important it had been to me that Murderbot has no gender. I think the use of a cyborg/machine with human components is an excellent way to show a non-gendered life, and Murderbot's bewilderment at all of the gendered clothing/assumptions/etc. helps us to see how oddly unintuitive and somewhat random our gender ideas are.2023-12-22 11:23:38Sacha LambWhen the Angels Left the Old Country Levine queridoFantasy2023-12-22 11:09:25A.C. WiseDeath Is a Diner at 3:00 a.m.The Deadlands2023-12-22 11:03:13Cedar McCloudThe Tale the TwinesNuminous Spirit PressSeveral regions of this universe have no notions of gender, and it is contrasted with those who do, whether it's a strict binary or another set up2023-12-22 10:44:33Martha WellsThe Witch KingTordotcomMain character is a bodyswaping demon whose apparent gender rarely aligns with his actual; lots of exploration of what various cultures consider masc/femme in fashion. Also, it'sujust a good read2023-12-22 10:41:11Angel LealThe Dead Boy Inside MeThe Deadlands2023-12-22 10:34:16E.E. CypherHollow Are the BonesThe Deadlands2023-12-22 10:31:39Foz MeadowsAll the Hidden PathsTorFilled with action and intrigue, intricately plotted, vividly descriptive. Ralian-born Velasin vin Aaro is now Velasin Aeduria, after his arranged marriage to Caethani Aeduria, a Tithenai nobleman. Vel went from life in Ralia, where same-sex attraction is scorned, to Tithena, where it is fully accepted; he cares deeply for Cae while struggling to accept Cae's love for him. Features characters of a third gender with a full set of pronouns and relationship terms for that gender. 2023-12-22 10:29:54V.M. AyalaEmotional ResonanceEscape PodTwo trans characters forced into a mechanical life of servitude and warfare, who find some solace in each other, and desperately seek a way beyond the current status quo.2023-12-22 09:54:30Hal SchrieveHow To Get Over the End Of the WorldSeven StoriesThis surreal coming of age tale set among queer trans teen furries, punks, and stoners in a Pacific Northwest slowly succumbing to climate change is full of warmth, satirical humor, and sharp insight into the dynamics between teenagers and adults in trans community spaces. The fantastic elements are light, but eerie, moving, and beautifully handled. 2023-12-22 09:49:44Dominique DickeyWho the Final Girl BecomesNightmare Magazine2023-12-22 09:41:27Mae Murray, editorThe Book of Queer Saints Volume II Medusa Haus2023-12-22 09:31:19Lorraine ScheinThe Last RevolutionWriters ResistThis is a humorous prose poem about a utopian society of the future..2023-12-22 09:31:07Toshiya Kamei The Ghost of You Cosmic Horror Monthly 2023-12-22 09:27:21Rasmussen Rhiannon (co-editor)dave ring (co-editor)Luminescent Machinations: Queer Tales of Monumental InventionNeon HemlockA speculative anthology exploring the limits of machinery, the fragility and power of queer bodies, and mecha in all their forms.2023-12-22 09:05:03Suzan PalumboSkin ThiefNeon Hemlock"Lavishly queer" —Alex Brown2023-12-22 09:03:30Yume KitaseiThe Deep SkyFlatiron2023-12-21 16:06:49Ash HowellForte/Foible or At the Center of PercussionBaffling Magazine"It’s ostensibly a conversation between a sword and its wielder, but it’s also a meditation on violence, on who we are versus who we could be, on what we allow ourselves to become versus living our truth." - Alex Brown, Tor.com 610 words2023-12-21 12:51:06Ash HowellChiralityAll Worlds WayfarerI am happy to provide a reader’s copy of the work for consideration. A second-person exploration of trans identity, doubt, embodiment, and how stories (the ones we hear often & the ones we haven’t heard before) shape our understanding of selfhood and truth. ~2500 words2023-12-21 12:43:59Anya Johanna DeNiroOKPsycheSmall Beer PressBeyond the story of a trans woman living in a slightly odder version of the Twin Cities, OKPsyche explores trans and cis gendered communities, families, and friendship.2023-12-21 11:10:11Bogi TakácsConstruction SacrificeLightspeedTrans protagonists & themes2023-12-21 10:32:53Nathan MaherBlades & Ballet: Enemy of the WindNRM Books"Blades & Ballet: Enemy of the Wind" is a YA Dark Fantasy novel that explores a world where three sexes are recognized by society, where society is matriarchal, and that gender is not only fluid but is also considered a spiritual journey. Vera is 13-years-old and non-binary. They lose nearly everyone they love to a gigantic monster of wind. To seek vengeance they must train as a ballet-knight for a chance to be infused with the powers of the divine in order to confront the beast. This is a tale of strong friendship, of found family and dealing with grief. 2023-12-20 10:49:34Gregory ColesThe Limits of My WorldWalking Carnival BooksGender and the gendered nature of language are interrogated side-by-side as "pronouns shift in clever ways" in this "fiercely original SF headspinner" (BookLife Reviews, https://booklife.com/project/the-limits-of-my-world-89459). 2023-12-18 19:59:47Nic AnstettThe ExorsisterOne Story"Stories sometimes quietly open themselves to reveal other stories, and sometimes those stories open up too. So it is with “The Exorsister,” which somehow manages to be horrifying, funny, and moving. One Story is delighted to be publishing this highly original story about change, acceptance, and envy by Nic Anstett." - Patrick Ryan, Editor-in-Chief of "One Story"2023-12-17 11:28:44Jeff DunneNexusWyrder BooksNexus is a novel about balance and harmony, about embracing differences and recognizing the value that comes from those differences. It uses gender, and especially defying gender norms, to make these points. Two of the three main characters are written to emphasize the principles of yin and yang, but with non-traditional association - a decidedly yang woman and an equally yin man. The third main character is non-gendered, and necessarily so, for their criticality to the story arises from being at the center of all spectra. The book speaks to the importance of recognizing gender, in whatever form, as a source of strength and inspiration rather than a constraint or barrier to being who we are meant to be.2023-12-13 19:08:30Rebecca Hirsch GarciaThe Girl Who Cried Diamonds & Other StoriesECW PressA girl born in a small, unnamed pueblo is blessed—or cursed—with the ability to produce valuable gems from her bodily fluids. A tired wife and mother escapes the confines of her oppressive life and body by shapeshifting into a cloud. A girl reckons with the death of her father and her changing familial dynamics while slowly, mysteriously losing her physical senses. Infused with keen insight and presented in startling prose, the stories in this dark, magnetic collection by newcomer Rebecca Hirsch Garcia invite the reader into an uncanny world out of step with reality while exploring the personal and interpersonal in a way that is undeniably, distinctly human. 2023-12-12 16:57:53JC RycroftThe Blood-Born DragonBattleWarrior PressThe main character who’s a sellsword isn’t a man, Des is a woman who defies always having to wear dresses & chooses to be herself. We also have dragons that are not male or female, but agender, both that produces young by giving birth to dragonets in eggs. And last, but not least this is not a male/female tale, it’s sapphic.2023-12-09 03:49:20Tim SusmanThe Price of ThornsArgyll ProductionsIn a world of secrets and stories, Nivvy, the thief, takes on an impossible heist for an enigmatic woman. But hidden truths entwine their fate, revealing a perilous desire beyond a kingdom's theft. ~~~ "…is nothing short of a stand-up-and-applaud storytelling tour de force." ~Bluelnk Reviews • STARRED REVIEW “Working toward an emotional showdown that leaves hope for potential future adventures, the intricate fantasy novel The Price of Thorns follows a spurned queen as she seeks revenge and an ambitious thief as he makes his own way to happiness.” ~Foreword Clarion Reviews • Star Rating: 5 / 5 "Memorable, captivating, and engaging, author Tim Susman's The Price of Thorns is a must-read LGBTQ+ and Dark Fantasy read!" ~Pacific Book Reviews • NOTABLE BOOK2023-12-06 16:32:35Duke OhaTHE 9 LIVESKDP2023-12-06 13:09:04Joaquín BaldwinWolf of WithervaleSelf-publishedAn ambitious, sweeping saga. As epic as it is queer. Lago was only a child when the shapeshifter entrusted the wolf-like mask to his care. He could not guess at its powers nor envision how such a small artifact could come to shape the entire world of Noss. Now that the empire has scented the relic’s trail, Lago’s only hope of escape is to find the courage to wield the mask, uncover its secrets, and accept the change it brings. A profoundly queer adventure that explores sexuality, our connections to other species, unconventional kinds of love, and the very nature of consciousness.2023-12-05 16:30:51Andrew Sean GreerCalypso's GuestAmazon Original StoriesA man in exile, banished to a planet far from home and cursed with immortality, discovers that a ship has crash-landed near his settlement. After two hundred years, his heart’s desire has come true. A visitor has finally arrived on his lonely little speck in the stars. He’ll have companionship again. Someone he could love forever. As the weary traveler heals, the two men form a tender bond. But all they’ve come to share may not be enough to curb the visitor’s irrepressible wanderlust. Now the exile, who thought nothing in his endless life would ever change, must make a decision that will change everything.2023-12-01 11:57:41Nnedi OkoraforJust Out of Jupiter's ReachAmazon Original StoriesTornado Onwubiko is one of seven people on Earth paired with sentient ships to explore and research the cosmos for twenty million euros. A decade of solitary life for a lifetime of wealth. Five years into the ten-year mission of total isolation comes a consolation: a temporary meetup among fellow travelers. A lot can happen in a week. For Tornado, who left a normal life behind, a little company can be life-changing. Nnedi Okorafor’s Just Out of Jupiter’s Reach is part of The Far Reaches, a collection of science-fiction stories that stretch the imagination and open the heart. They can be read or listened to in one sitting.2023-12-01 11:55:23John ScalziSlow Time Between the StarsAmazon Original StoriesEquipped with the entirety of human knowledge, a sentient ship is launched on a last-ditch journey to find a new home for civilization. Trillions of miles. Tens of thousands of years. In the space between, the AI has plenty of time to think about life, the vastness of the universe, everything it was meant to do, and—with a perspective created but not limited by humans—what it should do. John Scalzi’s Slow Time Between the Stars is part of The Far Reaches, a collection of science-fiction stories that stretch the imagination and open the heart. They can be read or listened to in one sitting.2023-12-01 11:53:20Ann LeckieThe Long GameAmazon Original StoriesOn a far-off colony, humans tower over the local species who grow the plants they need. Narr keeps the workers in line—someone has to. But when Narr learns just how short-lived their species is, the little alien embarks on a big mission: to find out why their people die and how to stop it. Stubborn and hopeful, Narr has a plan for the locals, for humans, and for the future. Ann Leckie’s The Long Game is part of The Far Reaches, a collection of science-fiction stories that stretch the imagination and open the heart. They can be read or listened to in one sitting.2023-12-01 11:50:31Veronica RothVoidAmazon Original StoriesTraveling faster than light, the transport ship Redundancy is cut off from communication as effectively as an ancient ocean liner. The isolation suits crew member Ace Vance just fine—she’s got nowhere else to be. But when a wealthy passenger turns up dead during a routine voyage, Ace will have to connect with the passengers and crew to uncover the truth. Tragedy will strike again—it’s only a matter of time. Veronica Roth’s Void is part of The Far Reaches, a collection of science-fiction stories that stretch the imagination and open the heart. They can be read or listened to in one sitting.2023-12-01 11:47:40James S. A. CoreyHow It UnfoldsAmazon Original StoriesRoy Court and his crew are taking the trip of a lifetime—several lifetimes in fact—duplicated and dispatched across the galaxies searching for Earthlike planets. Many possibilities for the future. Yet for Roy, no matter how many of him there are, there’s still just one painful, unchangeable past. In what world can a broken relationship be reborn? The universe is so vast, there’s always room for hope. James S. A. Corey’s How It Unfolds is part of The Far Reaches, a collection of science-fiction stories that stretch the imagination and open the heart. They can be read or listened to in one sitting.2023-12-01 11:45:19Rebecca RoanhorseFalling BodiesAmazon Original StoriesA young man caught between two disparate worlds searches for his place in the universe in a wrenching short story by New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Roanhorse. Light-years from home, it’s Ira’s second chance. Just another anonymous student at a space station university. Not the orphan whose Earther heritage was erased. Not some social experiment put on display by his adoptive father. Not the criminal recruited by the human rebels. But when Ira’s loyalties clash once again, two wars break out: one on the ground and one within himself. Which will Ira stand with? Which will take him down? Rebecca Roanhorse’s Falling Bodies is part of The Far Reaches, a collection of science-fiction stories that stretch the imagination and open the heart. They can be read or listened to in one sitting.2023-12-01 11:42:37S.B. DivyaMeru47North2023-12-01 11:39:24Tiffany MorrisGreen Fuse BurningStelliform PressGreen Fuse Burning is an Indigenous dark fantasy/horror that explores the intersections of Indigenous identity, queerness, and grief. Its poetic language sinks the reader along with its Indigenous lesbian protagonist into a process of transformation.2023-12-01 06:50:52E.G. CondéSordidezStelliform PressSordidez is an innovative and raw Indigenous futurist novella in which a trans journalits from Puerto Rico seeks new alliances in order to save his beloved island from new colonists after a devastating hurricane. The novella examines the intersection of queerness and gender and Indigenous revolution, reclamation, and resurgence.2023-12-01 06:36:29Sim KernSeeds for the SwarmStelliform PressSeeds for the Swarm is a rollicking techno-fantasy climate fiction adventure that refreshes YA dystopia with its queer sensibility and politics. With this revolutionary spirit, this novel confronts the accepted narrative technology-as-savior, while highlighting the importance of community and care in the fight against resource extraction and its impact on marginalized communities.2023-12-01 06:21:21L. R. LamDragonfallDAW“With a queernorm cast that challenges the roles of gender and sexuality, 'Dragonfall' is a page-turner that keeps you on the edge of your seat with phenomenal worldbuilding and jaw-dropping twists,” says Linden A. Lewis, author of The First Sister. L. R. Lam creates a society where gender fluidity is a simple fact of life, inviting readers to challenge traditional ideas of gender roles, disability, and power.2023-11-30 13:37:00Wole TalabiShigidi and the Brass Head of ObalufonDAWIn Wole Talabi’s "Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon," Nneoma, an ancient succubus, is a glamorous figure unafraid to step into her own power. As Chris Kluwe wrote in his Lightspeed review: “Talabi does masterful work weaving in gender expectations with subversions of the same in order to highlight issues of female bodily autonomy and social perceptions of women who dare desire sexuality the way men do.”2023-11-30 13:33:02Rachel ChurcherAngelsTaller BooksIn her YA novel ‘Angels’, Rachel Churcher uses a metaphor of genetic mutation to explore the LGBTQ+ experience for a Young Adult audience. Her winged angels have existed throughout history, but have always been forced to hide their wings or suffer persecution. When a gorgeous angel model bares his wings on a giant billboard, he paves the way for other angels to come out and reveal who they are – but that’s not the end of their persecution, nor is it an instant solution for every hidden angel. Characters across the spectrum of gender identities explore what it means to live authentically, and the prices to be paid for hiding their true selves. It’s a unique, powerful and effective idea, inviting the reader to consider their own attitudes, their own identity, and their own prejudices throughout the story. 2023-11-30 11:25:58Indra DasThe Last Dragoners of BowzabarSubterranean PressGorgeous novella about migration and memory that includes some fantastical depictions of gender, as Ru learns about his grandparent's transition and grapples with a kind of cultural dysphoria. 2023-11-28 12:13:32Mark McElroyParallel LinesSelfCould you have been happier with an ex? Or the bi-sexual lover who became closeted action star? Or The One Who Got Away? When stolen technology catapults Thomas into alternative worlds based on different romantic choices, he learns more than he ever expected about life, gender, and what it takes to be loved for who you really are. Parallel Lines also features genuine bisexual characters, like Thomas's boyfriend Les, whose full personhood hinges on being able to express and celebrate all aspects of his sexuality. If you're looking for a smart, LGBTQ+, world-jumping, sci-fi romcom, Parallel Lines (the debut novel of blogger and script-writer Mark McElroy) is just the book for you.2023-11-28 08:11:54J.G.P. MacAdam Ain’t Human BizarrchitectureHello, Please find linked my recently published short speculative fiction, "Ain’t Human" which explores what it means to be a woman and human in war against purportedly nonhuman enemies. Thank you!2023-11-27 14:33:24Joanne McNeilWRONG WAYMCD (FSG)2023-11-26 13:48:25Debbie UrbanskiAfter WorldSimon & SchusterAfter World is narrated by an AI who is tasked with telling the story of the last human on Earth. The novel challenges the traditional roles of girls, women and mothers in the post-apocalypse genre. 2023-11-24 05:33:53Lydia KwaA Dream Wants WakingWolsak and Wynn PublishersIn 2219 CE, many years after the Great Catastrophe, the Central Government of Luoyang has divided the city into zones where inhabitants, both human and chimeric, are placed by usefulness. The citizens of the city are overseen by No. 1, a giant chimeric brain created by the scientists in Bright Order to monitor all activity within the city while distracting the residents with virtual spectacles. But No. 1 has begun to behave erratically. Meanwhile, the Spirit Supreme Assembly in Interstitium, a religious order with a dangerous new leader, continues to grow in power, sanctioned by the Central Government. The city’s only hope lies with Yinhe, a half-human half-fox spirit who has lived many lives and hides truths in tales shared with listeners in Bent Back. Summoned to Dream Zone, where chimeric inhabitants of the city have been exiled to perform2023-11-21 09:31:18Bogi TakácsLisa M. BradleyPolenth BlakeStefani CoxJulie NovákováD.A. Xiaolin SpiresLydia MoonLeigh HarlenCelia NeriUrsula WhitcherPremee MohamedEmma Alice JohnsonSantiago BellucoJulian K. JarboePhoebe BartonJennifer Lee RossmanKanika AgrawalLaura Jane SwansonOsahon Ize-IyamuVajra ChandrasekeraCameron Van SantTessa FisherHal Y. ZhangIsha KarkiRosalind's SiblingsAtthis ArtsFiction and Poetry Celebrating Scientists of Marginalized Genders, edited by Bogi Takács2023-11-19 06:25:29M. L. KrishnanInterstate MohinisDiabolical PlotsCentered around the Mohini mythos, this is a story about a boiling river, lonely women, night roads, and the kinds of seeing that happens in unspeakable circumstances. 2023-11-14 20:21:55Sin BlachéHelen MacdonaldProphetGrove AtlanticFrom the extraordinary minds of award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author of H Is for Hawk Helen Macdonald and first-time author Sin Blaché comes Prophet, their electric debut novel and a tantalizing adventure fusing noir, sci-fi and a slow burn queer romance—set in a universe just one perilous step from our own. Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been reluctant partners since their Uzbekistan days. Adam is a seemingly unflappable American Intelligence officer and Rao is an ex-MI6 agent, an addict and rudderless pleasure hound, with the uncanny ability to discern the truth of things—about everyone and everything other than Adam. When an American diner turns up in a foggy field in the UK after a mysterious death, Adam and Rao are called in to investigate, setting into motion the most dangerous and otherworldly mission of their lives. 2023-11-08 15:12:12Anya Johanna DeNiro“The Water-Wolf”Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazinetrans history and a lot more2023-11-08 11:31:09Ann LeckieTranslation StateOrbit Booksso much fun with gender pronouns2023-11-08 11:24:38Avi SilverPluralitiesAtthis ArtsTender, witty, and daring, Pluralities is a slipstream-meets-space-adventure story honoring the long and turbulent journey into gender euphoria. - More info and blurbs by Nino Cipri, Bogi Takács, Jordan Kurella, Bryan Thao Worra, José Pablo Iriarte, and L.X. Beckett at https://www.atthisarts.com/product/pluralities/2023-11-08 10:22:59Wole TalabiSaturday’s SongLightspeed MagazineA story in which the days of the week are personified as god-like beings whose domain is stories. Saturday leads her siblings to tell the story of a queer woman living in urban Nigeria whose lover dies mysteriously. As the days of the week tell this story, it becomes more than a story, it becomes a song about family, love, acceptance and forgiveness. 2023-09-09 02:30:35Redfern Jon BarrettProud Pink SkyAmble PressIn this stunning work of speculative urban fiction, Redfern Jon Barrett breaks down the binary between utopia and dystopia—presenting an ambitopian vision of the world’s first gay state. “To enter the pages of Proud Pink Sky is to be engulfed by a tidal power of masterful storytelling, morphing histories, and utopian imaginings. Boundaries of families and colonies, maps and guidebooks, words and sounds, dissolve into delicious, heady outcomes in this vital inhabitation of queer homelands.” —Gayathri Prabhu, author of If I Had to Tell It Again2023-08-31 05:59:47Leisl KaberryShadows of DarknessSelf[The person who recommended this book provided no comments or description, only a one-paragraph quotation from the book that didn’t seem to mention gender and that repeatedly used a term that’s sometimes used as an ethnic slur. We’ve therefore removed the quotation.]2023-08-29 11:14:24Alison LevyMagic By Any Other NameSparkPressAward winning author explores abuse and found family in a tender YA fantasy. In 'Magic By Any Other Name,' a young witch leaves her toxic family, adopts a new identity, and flees across the country. Helped by the magical creatures she meets along the way, she confronts her past trauma and the realities her privileged family separated her from. Perfect for fans of 'The Society of Irregular Witches.'2023-08-29 06:47:04Geoffreyjen EdwardsPlenum: The First Book of DeoUntimely BooksWhat happens when a la-gendered novice in the Kinship of the Suffering God encounters a young findiv while away from hir home environment? In this genderqueer story, a love affair goes awry as Vanu Francoeur struggles to overcome bullying both by individuals and her society. She’s helped by an intelligent octupus or oggie and a jonah, a beast descended from the whales of old Earth but adapted to function in interstellar space. Vanu struggles to understand hir gender, hir sexuality, hir spirituality and hir family relationships in a world with seven genders (named as a musical scale) and radical body-based technologies that redefine what it is to be human, in a far future story which threads its way across a star formation nebula and reaches its final confrontation in a lyrical encounter in the heart of a sun.2023-08-26 04:26:58Theodora WardWant Itself is a Treasure in HeavenUncanny MagazineAccording to Nic Anstett, "Theodora Ward’s 'Want Itself is a Treasure in Heaven' is only weeks old and it has already become one of my favorite works of trans sci-fi. Its central conceit involves a neurological link that allows two users to enter one another’s minds and bodies as a passive observer. Our trans woman narrator quickly becomes fixated on linking with her cis woman partner and in turn develops an addiction to the disassociating drug used to acclimate someone post-link. Ward’s narrator goes through a spiraling rabbit hole of dysphoria, obsession, and grief that is all too familiar to the experiences of myself and many other trans women. Like so much of the best science fiction, Ward uses her premise to touch on an underdiscussed human truth but also, thankfully, offers a lifeline out of despair." https://www.tor.com/2023/06/21/ten-essential-short-stories-by-trans-authors/2023-08-17 17:12:17Jarret KeeneHammer of the Dogs: A NovelUniversity of Nevada PressA postapocalyptic adventure in Las Vegas for readers of all ages. Set in the wasteland of post-apocalyptic Las Vegas, Hammer of the Dogs is a literary dystopian adventure filled with high-octane fun starring twenty-one-year-old Lash. With her high-tech skill set and warrior mentality, Lash is a master of her own fate as she helps to shield the Las Vegas valley’s survivors and protect her younger classmates at a paramilitary school holed up in Luxor on the Las Vegas Strip. After graduation, she’ll be alone in fending off the deadly intentions and desires of the school’s most powerful opponents. 2023-08-07 11:27:12Chloe SpencerMonstersonaTiny Ghost PressMonstersona is a YA sci-fi horror novel which centers on two teenage girls who must embark on a cross-country road trip after a freak explosion destroys their hometown. The story explores themes pertaining to female rage, bodily autonomy, queerness, and neurodivergency/disability, and how these things intersect. 2023-07-22 14:05:59Niall SpainThe Princess NetworkZombies Need Brains LLCExplores the typical trope of a princess kidnapped by a dragon but with a twist...2023-07-19 11:06:51Avi BurtonThe Body FateFantasy Magazine An amazing exploration of role, identity, and expectation in just 3,300 words! 2023-07-09 09:33:49Maxwell I. GoldanOther MythologyInterstellar Flight PressFrom Thanatos to Hades, Maxwell Gold’s book of horror prose poetry reimagines myths from a queer perspective. Gold’s poetry merges camp sensibility and cosmic horror in poems that are beautiful, bloody, and barbed. A poetic soap opera of gods and monsters. 2023-07-06 13:48:31Ennis Rook BasheBeautiful MaladyInterstellar Flight PressA siren song of queerness, disability, and myth, these poems reinvent love, life, and death. BEAUTIFUL MALADY is an exploration of pain, weaving speculative poems about fairy tales, folklore, fantasy, and the supernatural with the reality of chronic illness and disability. Ennis Rook Bashe deftly creates a world where the broken body is beautiful. 2023-07-06 13:47:02Chloe ClarkPatterns of OrbitBaobab Press2023-06-30 09:41:12Aven Shore-KindThe Truthseer And The GooseIndepententThe Truthseer and the Goose dares to conjure a pastoral fantasy where magic's wellspring is an open heart, and where patient observance of the rhythm of nature reveals what is honest and enduring. It is beautiful, and warm, and sometimes sad - and always fearlessly true. This is a patient story that cares about genuine growth, honest labor done well, and more than anything else, generous acceptance of the humanity at the center of each of us. But it is also a book of surprise, as it unfolds and shows you more and more of itself in the telling. In the end, it is so much more than you think it will be, and the realization is lovely. I love this book very much.2023-06-27 19:28:45E.D.E. BellInkbloomAtthis ArtsThis novel features a neurodivergent and bisexual main character in a world inclusive of gender diversity and polyamory. Xelle is marked as dragonfriend. Arriving at To’Ever under a veil of unease and an uncertain future, she must redefine herself. Again. Inkbloom continues the story of Night Ivy, a wandering bard’s tale of magic and friendship amidst the spires and shadows of the seven towers of Alyssia. “Like the first breeze of spring after a long winter, E.D.E. Bell warms hearts and plants seeds of hope with her words. Do yourself a favour and read this book.” – Marie Bilodeau, bestselling author of Heirs of a Broken Land2023-05-23 08:25:26Deena MohamedShubeik LubeikPantheon2023-05-18 10:00:05Anna-Marie McLemoreLakeloreFeiwel and Friends2023-05-17 10:41:45TA GAYLORDThe Blackstone Twins Face Off vs. DestinyTA GaylordThis story is a captivating adventure of twins, sister and brother, Zoe and Zachary, in a post-apocalyptic world who go on a quest in search of a cure for the NIGHT MADNESS, the affliction that every non-mother is forced to face every sunset. Rumors of a cure in the mountains lead the twins and their small group across California to the Sierra Nevada’s, overcoming perils on the way. The characters are so realistic and endearing that I got totally caught up in the story and couldn’t put the book down. I loved the attention to details, especially Caroline’s facts. I would highly recommend this book to all readers, young and less young, who enjoy well written quest adventures in a dystopian, matriarchal world. Zach and Zoe are great characters. I love this book and can't wait for the next adventure! 2023-05-16 09:43:14Kristina KellyJonathan FullerTrials of the InnermostHansen HouseIn Trials of the Innermost, six of the realms' best and brightest work together to accomplish tasks to preserve a fragile peace between previously warring realms. Idrilia-despite her realm treating genders equally, they still hold fast to old edicts that state one of their goals as a society is to "preserve numbers" - everyone must pair up male+female to reproduce. Idrilia rejects this. Through the story she struggles with her duty to her realm and her identity - she's bi and damn the rules. The realm of Komor devalues women, but the gay character Zinvar is working to change that. Realm Heathstrom affirms women can use magic but ace character Vayriel challenges that magic is for all. Male Kilahym could be described as effeminate but no character bats an eye. The 6 encounter pansexual and non-binary characters also.2023-05-10 07:40:01B. PigeonFell A. MarshHierarchy of the UnseenEHLSHierarchy of the Unseen is a queer speculative fiction novel following a shiftless demon and a devout demon hunter who must join forces to disrupt the dangerous plans set by those in power. The novel depicts queer, trans characters who are denied a voice and the autonomy to decide their own futures within a set of coercive social structures. Its themes of gender, assimilation, and self-actualization are sure to resonate with LGBTQ+ readers.2023-05-04 15:01:32Kelly RobsonHigh Times in the Low ParliamentTor.comThe hints we receive about how we ended up in a fairy-enforced world order without men are dark, and limited. Like many books premised without men, it fails to deal with trans or non-binary characters from what I could tell. The protagonist was grating at first as a shallow flirt, but worked for me BECAUSE there was no male gender interference. Whether the Parliament was meant as a metaphor for the European Union, or their desperate votes to avoid a flood meant to draw our eyes to our ongoing climate crisis, is debatable. Everyone convinced themselves that they have no real power - which means, of course, that we all have it..2023-05-02 08:23:24Rae MarizThe Field Guide for Next Timekhōréō magazine2023-04-25 08:32:48Hal SchrieveVivian's GhostSelf-Published"Trans man Collin is haunted by the ghost of his suicidal friend. An anti-trans journalist is about to be too." Vivian's Ghost is a longform comic. It's messy, raw, and pulls no punches, but still centers humor, community, and growth. The comic was posted page-by-page on the author's Instagram, is available in four digital volumes, and was self-published as a collected print edition in early 2023.2023-04-19 10:55:46Alyce ElmorePray To the DeadXlibrisIf all adult men died and boys only lived to be twenty, would her story become the new history? It's not your typical 'men die and women create a better world' story.2023-04-09 19:53:25Lianyu TanThe Wicked and the WillingShattered Scepter PressThis historical gothic horror vampire novel explores gender and colonialism via a destitute Chinese maidservant caught in a love triangle between her white English vampiric mistress and her fellow servant, Po Lam. Po Lam is a butch Chinese woman who serves as the vampire’s faithful servant but is struggling with a life of bondage and murder. Her journey towards absolution offers commentary on the complexities of labor exploitation and colonialism. Tan’s writing is vivid and immersive, bringing the reader into the world of colonial 1920s Singapore. The book contains two mutually exclusive endings, but both endings provide a thought-provoking meditation on power, desire, and sacrifice. Jurors are welcome to request review copies from the author. Content warnings: https://lianyutan.com/content-warnings/#wicked https://lianyutan.com/book/the-wicked-and-the-willing/2023-04-01 00:27:40N. D. JonesBearly Gold: A Goldilocks and the Three Bears ReimaginingKuumba Publishing2023-03-17 15:12:18Chana PorterThe Thick and the LeanSaga PressIn Lambda Award finalist Chana Porter’s highly anticipated new novel, an aspiring chef, a cyberthief, and a kitchen maid each break free of a society that wants to constrain them. A startling fable of the entwined perils of capitalism, body politics, and the stigmas women face for appetites of every kind, Chana Porter’s profound new novel explores the reclamation of pleasure as a revolutionary act.2023-03-08 12:52:12Dale GriffinThe Last Lion of KarkovBooks Fluent2023-03-03 16:36:23Nick Walker"Ruiz and the Echo Hotel"Argawarga Press, an imprint of Autonomous Press2023-02-12 20:46:44Mame Bougouma DieneWoppa Diallo A Soul of Small PlacesTordotcom - Africa Risen anthology Published November 15 20222023-02-04 05:04:47Leilani Taneus-MillerBrown Girl Austin Macauley Touching account of a young teen damaged by racism. Set in 1980’s. Guaranteed to stir up conversations on race, gender and mental health.2023-01-19 11:39:50D. A MucciIgnatius and the Battle at Dinas AffaraonSt. Barts Publishing Iggy forges a sword from a meteorite–but will it be the weapon to save them? As the obsessive Emperor Mallak plans to kill Iggy for his crystal amulet, Iggy remains entirely focused on becoming a master smith. Well, almost entirely–he is distracted by his crush, Raraesa, and can’t help but hope that she notices his newfound fighting skills (and fighting physique). There’s just one problem: a dark wizard, a Death Knight, and five thousand soldiers have been tasked with hunting him down. Where will he hide? The mysteries of the Nostaw Warrior still haunt Iggy. There must be a repiceason he was given the sword, and he prays it will help him return to his place and time in Pennsylvania–but right now, home seems farther away than ever. Will he find the answers he’s seeking on the Island of Cambria?2023-01-11 16:16:56Rem WigmoreWolfpack Queen of Swords PressQueen of Swords Press is happy to make the book available for the jury.2023-01-08 05:30:00Eugen BaconBroken ParadiseLuna Press PublishingA dark fantasy of gods, magic and family—what happens when they break. After falling out with her brothers, Samaki the goddess of water flees to Earth where she must mask her trace by splitting into a quadruplet of magi. A quadruplet is perfect, but all things are never equal. Dissonance arises when the magus Umozi breaks the quadruplet. Only the newness of a child magus can restore balance and save a broken paradise—with the help of a goddess mother.2023-01-06 21:47:07Joseph A. SchillerUpon the Arrival of DawnJoseph A. SchillerA darkness grows, threatening the delicate fabric of the Universe. An ominous cloud spreads, bringing an increasing imbalance across the Cosmos. Essences bent on wickedness and ultimate destruction are violently stripping the Energy of Life from innocent terrestrial creatures, bringing Existence to the very brink of collapse. Only one Celestial essence boldly accepts the calling to seek out the source of the encroaching evil and restore Harmony once again to Existence. Azrael, humble servant of Eternity, offspring of Existence, will stop at nothing to protect the Universe, mortal and immortal alike.2023-01-01 20:20:16Sarah SohJuniper Mae: Knight of Tykotech CityNobrow US Inc./Flying Eye BooksFOR READERS OF THE BROWNSTONE SERIES & HILDA: readers who enjoy middle grade series with an animated feel will cozy up to Juniper Mae EXCITING DEBUT CREATOR: Sarah Soh is a debut creator with a knack for animation-forward illustrations THE FIRST IN AN EPIC THREE BOOK SERIES: a sci-fi series that will keep readers hooked FUN ADVENTURE GRAPHIC NOVEL WITH STRONG FEMALE ENERGETIC PROTAGONIST: Young kids will gravitate toward her liveliness FOR YOUNG SCI-FI FANS LIKE AMULET AND ZITA: STEM lovers will enjoy Juniper Mae, a smart young engineer heroine 2022-12-09 11:49:39Al HessWorld Running DownAngry RobotARC available from Al on request Odyssey x Blade Runner, but all the queer joy. Delicious prose, gritty, engaging post-apocalyptic world, and characters you’ll fall for. Hard. Al Hess is a masterful writer. It’s clear from the very beginning that he has the heart of a poet and the imagination of a storyteller. His comfort with structure has him providing us a story with the perfect flow of tension and hope to keep us in our feels as we breathlessly turn each page. He has unique and important things to say about living in a body that doesn’t match who you are, and Valentine’s journey as a trans man is refracted elegantly in Osric’s own fraught relationship with his corporeality. 2022-11-29 19:15:17