Best gay science fiction books

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The Stars Are Legion

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Hurley, Kameron

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Ancillary Justice

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Leckie, Ann

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Alien: The Cold Forge

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White, Alex

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Blackfish City

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Miller, Sam J.

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Autonomous

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Newitz, Annalee

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The Future of Another Timeline

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Newitz, Annalee

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The Light Brigade

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Hurley, Kameron

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The Left Hand of Darkness

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Le Guin, Ursula K.

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A Memory Called Empire : Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel

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Martine, Arkady

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This is How You Lose the Period War : An epic time-travelling love story, winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novella

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El-Mohtar, Amal, Gladstone, Max

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An Unkindness Of Ghosts

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Solomon, Rivers

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The Best Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy

How do you think about queer science fiction and fantasy?

There have been gay authors writing science fiction and fantasy almost since the genre started, but in recent years we’ve seen this massive flowering of queer representation in mainstream science fiction and fantasy.

We didn’t invent it in the last few years, but it has certainly been mainstreamed. For people like me, that’s amazing because science fiction and fantasy are my home genres. This is what I grew up writing, so to see myself and my friends represented is just incredible. I feel really adj to be alive and reading right now.

The first queer science fiction novel that you’ve chosen to recommend is Emily Tesh’s Some Desperate Glory. Can you please introduce us to this work?

Ironically, this may be the one where queerness is most central to it, and yet, of all of these books, it’s the furthest away from romance. It’s a good place to start.

Some Desperate Glory is a science fiction book that has been compared to Ender’s Game. It is about what happens

2019 Queer Adult SFF Gift Guide!

The Sol Majestic by Ferrett Steinmetz:
– gay male MC (and romance!)
– sumptuous feast of a book
– srsly Kitchen Wars but like, in spaceA Choir of Lies by Alexandra Rowland:
– Gay MC, queernorm world
– Stories have power!!
– Fantasy tulip maniaSilver in the Wood by Emily Tesh:
– Gay MC, m/m relationship
– all my exes are in the trees whoops
– One bed trope, but it doesn’t go as expected
– Sweetly sad, good for a drizzly day and then a looong walk in the nearby woodsThe Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht:
– Gay MC, m/m relationship
– Pretty steaming if you’re into gore
– Everybody’s awful and I value it
– Sexy, spooky, fucked up in the best waysLord of Secrets by Breanna Teintze:
– FAB QUEER NECROMANCER
– f/m main, but very significant m/m relationship
– Bone monstrosities
– Action adventure, good for a binge readAlice Payne Rides by Kate Heartfield:
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My Lesbian Novel by Renee Gladman (Lesbian Fiction)

The Beads by David McConnell (Queer Guy Fiction)

The Wildes by Louis Bayard (Gay Historical Fiction)

Sweet Like Honey by Aricka Alexander (F/F Romance)

Tempting Olivia by Clare Ashton (F/F Romance)

I’ll Verb Back To You by Becca Grischow (F/F Romance)

Karaoke Queen by Dominic Lim (M/M Drag Romance)

The Intimate Beginnings of Taylor by Lavender Quinn (F/F Romance)

The Seemingly Impossible Love Life of Amanda Dean by Ann Rose (Bisexual Woman Romance)

Yield Under Great Persuasion by Alexandra Rowland (M/M Romantasy)

A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft (Sapphic Fantasy Romance)

Sunsets & Other Dangerous Things by Dani Frank (F/F Vampire Romance)

What Is This Feeling? by Robby Weber (M/M YA Contemporary)

Spells to Forget Us by Aislinn Brophy (Bisexual/Lesbian F/F YA Fantasy)

Night Owls by A. R. Vishny (F/F YA Paranormal Romance)

Wishbone by Justine Pucella Winans (Queer Middle Grade Horror)

Real Siblings by Seamus Kirst and Karen Bunting (Two Dads Picture Book)

A Cup of Moisture Under My Bed: A Memoir (