morethanx asked: Hello! In a recent post in reply to Foz Meadows you said "Lesbian corporal in the king’s army? Check. Fairy tale queer ending to Beauty and the Beast? Yup. Asexual alchemist running a wizard school? Sure thing. And HarperCollins is about to get a queer pirate prince bamf (they don’t know it yet).". I was wondering if they were all books you had written? Because I am Very Interested in reading all of them, especially the one about the asexual alchemist.
Hello, beautiful. I’m going to use you as an example of what’s in my inbox. I hope you don’t mind. But I’m going to start out a bit wide and spiral in.
Also butting in to make the following queer SFF recommendations
- Ash, by Malinda Lo, is a queer retelling of Cinderella; there’s a fairy tale prequel called Huntress, and she’s also written an X-Files style SF series, starting with Adaptation, that has a bisexual love triangle;
- The Thousand Names, by Django Wexler, is the first book of an amazing flintlock fantasy series starring a lesbian corporal in the king’s army - she’s disguised as a boy and ends up promoted through skill, and once you get to the second book there are SO MANY QUEER LADIES, IT IS THE BEST THING;
- A Companion to Wolves, by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear, also the first book of a trilogy, is basically what would happen if you took the green dragonriders from McCaffrey’s Pern series, bonded them to giant wolves in a Norseish setting, and decided to actually have a lucid conversation about their queerness; see also Monette’s Doctrine of Labyrinths quartet, beginning with Melusine, which is heartbreaking and clever and amazing but to which I will ascribe literally every trigger warning in the history of trigger warnings, I am for serious not fucking around about this, oh my god;
- Ariah, by B. R. Sanders - a fellow genderqueer author! - which is amazing and heartbreaking and wonderful queer Bildungsroman with polyamory and elves and an industrial fantasy setting;
- Ann Leckie’s Ancillary trilogy, an amazing SF series about, among other things, an asexual spaceship in a human body having FEELINGS while taking down the empire that built her;
- Pantomime and Shadowplay by Laura Lam, fantasy novels with a bisexual intersex protagonist;
- Martha Wells’s Raksura series, starting with The Cloud Roads, where the main characters are dragonesque shapeshifters in the most lushly gorgeous magic world ever, and protagonist Moon ends up with lovers of all genders and it’s kind of hard to put real-world sexuality terms on the characters because DRAGON SHAPESHIFTERS, but trust me YOU NEED TO READ THESE BOOKS;
- The Summer Prince, by Alaya Dawn Johnson - bisexual poly romance in a future matriarchal Brazil, plus politics and science;
- Karen Memory, by Elizabeth Bear, is basically an all-inclusive lesbian steampunk adventure set in a frontier town;
- The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers, is a sweet, complex, engaging SF story which features, among other things, a queer human/alien relationship and a race of essentially polyamorous feathered lizardpeople;
- Max Gladstone’s Craft sequence, which is amazing on too many levels to name (worldbuilding! magic lawyers! mundane gods, sort of!) especially Full Fathom Five, which has a trans protagonist;
- Kameron Hurley’s The Mirror Empire, the start of a massive epic fantasy series full of queerness and polyamory, to which I also extend many trigger warnings; and
- Nick Harkaway’s Angelmaker, because who doesn’t want a story about a badass bisexual nonagenarian lady superspy saving the world again, even though she’s literally too old for this shit?
There are probably more I’m leaving out, but yes! GO FORTH AND ENJOY YE SOME QUEER SFF :D
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