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A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys 👽👶 Judy takes her wife and baby along to check out pollutants in the Potomac and finds herself in a First Contact with aliens who consider children an indispensable element of diplomatic talks.
https://www.librarything.com/work/26944302/ #QueerSFF2023
#LesbianFiction #SolarPunk #Hopepunk @bookstodon
Last Exit by Max Gladstone 🛣️ Ten years ago Zelda, Sal and their friends played with alternate realities and Sal was lost. Zelda has travelled the highways since, fighting the rot that still seeps in cracks to our reality.
https://www.librarything.com/work/26638159/ #QueerSFF2023
#AlternateRealities @bookstodon
https://www.librarything.com/work/26638159/ #QueerSFF2023
#AlternateRealities @bookstodon
Godmother Night by Rachel Pollack (1996) ♀️ political lesbian witchy mythology fiction: Mother Night (Death) is there when Jaqe and Laurie meet, and becomes their daughter's godparent.
https://www.librarything.com/work/308844/book/237610385 #QueerSFF2023
#LesbianBooks #QueerFantasy @sapphicbooks
https://www.librarything.com/work/308844/book/237610385 #QueerSFF2023
#LesbianBooks #QueerFantasy @sapphicbooks
Persephone Station by Stina Leicht 👽 A nonbinary crime boss hires a ragtag band of mostly queer mercenaries to protect hidden indigenous aliens on a backwater planet. https://www.librarything.com/work/25042615/ #QueerSFF2023
#QueerBooks @lgbtqbookstodon
#QueerBooks @lgbtqbookstodon
Tell Me An Ending by Jo Harkin 💊 Noor, who works at a memory removal clinic where the treatments aren't as permanent as promised, gets involved with a client, Elena. One of five viewpoint characters.
https://www.librarything.com/work/27143927/ #QueerSFF2023
#LesbianBooks
https://www.librarything.com/work/27143927/ #QueerSFF2023
#LesbianBooks
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Maria Crane 🦞 In a dystopia where wrongdoers are given extra shadows, Kris's wife dies in childbirth and the newborn receives a shadow.
https://www.librarything.com/work/28406205/ #QueerSFF2023
#LesbianBooks @lesfic
https://www.librarything.com/work/28406205/ #QueerSFF2023
#LesbianBooks @lesfic
We All Fall Down by Rose Szabo 🐙 In a magical city in the Mississippi Basin, Jack finds herself entangled in prophecy, along with a newcomer to town and the children of the previous king.
https://www.librarything.com/work/26911768/ #QueerSFF2023
#TransBooks #QueerFiction @lgbtqbookstodon
https://www.librarything.com/work/26911768/ #QueerSFF2023
#TransBooks #QueerFiction @lgbtqbookstodon
The Stars Undying by Emery Robin 🦻 A Cleopatra and Julius Caesar retelling in space - with a genderbent Mark Anthony, and an uploaded Alexander the Great.
https://www.librarything.com/work/28265954/ #QueerSFF2023
#QueerBooks @lgbtqbookstodon
https://www.librarything.com/work/28265954/ #QueerSFF2023
#QueerBooks @lgbtqbookstodon
Tahou by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall 🐟 These past, present and future stories of Aotearoa and Coastal Salish lands made proximate include several lesbian couples.
https://www.librarything.com/work/29414884/ #QueerSFF2023
#LesbianBooks #NZBooks #AlternateGeography #IndigiQueer #Takatāpui @sapphicbooks
https://www.librarything.com/work/29414884/ #QueerSFF2023
#LesbianBooks #NZBooks #AlternateGeography #IndigiQueer #Takatāpui @sapphicbooks
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree ☕ A DnD coffeeshop AU - Mercenary orc Viv leaves the business to start a cafe and hires succubus Tandri to work in it. Gentle adventures ensue.
https://www.librarything.com/work/27661802/book/238624301 #QueerSFF2023
#SapphicBooks @lesfic
https://www.librarything.com/work/27661802/book/238624301 #QueerSFF2023
#SapphicBooks @lesfic
The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older 🚝 Mossa goes to her ex, Pleiti, at Valdegeld University for help investigating a fall off a rail platform in Jupiter's upper atmosphere.
https://www.librarything.com/work/28380827/ #QueerSFF2023
#LesbianBooks #Mystery #BookRecs @sapphicbooks
https://www.librarything.com/work/28380827/ #QueerSFF2023
#LesbianBooks #Mystery #BookRecs @sapphicbooks
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher 🍄 This fungi threaded retelling of the Fall of the House of Usher has a narrator who comes from a culture where soldiers have their own pronouns, and ka chose that life.
https://www.librarything.com/work/27123359/ #QueerSFF2023 #NonBinaryBook
https://www.librarything.com/work/27123359/ #QueerSFF2023 #NonBinaryBook
Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse 🌟 In book 2 of this mesoamerican secondary world epic fantasy we start to see more of the all female Teek society that bisexual captain Xiala comes from.
https://www.librarything.com/work/26752244/ #QueerSFF2023 #QueerBooks
https://www.librarything.com/work/26752244/ #QueerSFF2023 #QueerBooks
The Traitor Baru Comorant by Seth Dickinson (2015) 🎭 Baru rises from a colonial school to Imperial Accountant but is trapped between her birth society's mores and those of her Masquerade masters even as she betrays them.
https://www.librarything.com/work/15636204/
#QueerSFF2023 @lgbtqbookstodon
https://www.librarything.com/work/15636204/
#QueerSFF2023 @lgbtqbookstodon
Nothing to See by Pip Adam 👯♀️ Peggy and Greta are navigating day to day life while staying sober, in a world that would prefer not to admit they exist.
https://www.librarything.com/work/25307607/
#QueerSFF2023
#NZBooks
https://www.librarything.com/work/25307607/
#QueerSFF2023
#NZBooks
Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling 0️⃣ Parallel stories of groups of women surviving the arctic north in a dystopic future include some f/f couples.
https://www.librarything.com/work/29007558/ #QueerSFF2023 #Dystopia
https://www.librarything.com/work/29007558/ #QueerSFF2023 #Dystopia
The Faithless by CL Clark 👑 Luca has returned to Balladaire to try and wrest the crown from her uncle, and then Touraine is sent as ambassador to the court. Surely they are too much at cross purposes to trust each other?
https://www.librarything.com/work/29558836/
#QueerSFF2023 @sapphicbooks
https://www.librarything.com/work/29558836/
#QueerSFF2023 @sapphicbooks
To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose 🐉
Anequs is paired with the first baby dragon her people have seen in a long time, to keep Kasaqua safe she will need to go to a dragon school run by the Anglish, people who do not value Anequs' way of life. https://www.librarything.com/work/28680201/book/242215337
#QueerSFF2023 #QueerBooks #Polyamory #IndigenousFiction #Dragons
Anequs is paired with the first baby dragon her people have seen in a long time, to keep Kasaqua safe she will need to go to a dragon school run by the Anglish, people who do not value Anequs' way of life. https://www.librarything.com/work/28680201/book/242215337
#QueerSFF2023 #QueerBooks #Polyamory #IndigenousFiction #Dragons
The Witches of Vardø by Anya Bergman 🐯 The second book I've read based on the real life Norwegian witch trials in the far north. Includes a secondary character in a lesbian relationship.
https://www.librarything.com/work/29600516/book/243024627
#QueerSFF2023 #Witches
https://www.librarything.com/work/29600516/book/243024627
#QueerSFF2023 #Witches
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling 🔦
Gyre embarks on a high tech, high risk caving expedition, her only company the voice in her ear of a stranger monitoring her from above. https://www.librarything.com/work/22424036/
#QueerSFF2023 #Thriller
Gyre embarks on a high tech, high risk caving expedition, her only company the voice in her ear of a stranger monitoring her from above. https://www.librarything.com/work/22424036/
#QueerSFF2023 #Thriller
If Tomorrow Doesn't Come by Jen St Jude ☄️ 19 years old and feeling like she is failing at college, soccer and life; estranged from the best friend she is in love with, Avery is about to kill herself when a planet destroying asteroid is announced.
https://www.librarything.com/work/29693674/
#QueerSFF2023 #YoungAdult
https://www.librarything.com/work/29693674/
#QueerSFF2023 #YoungAdult
Bitterthorn by Kat Dunn 🏰 A Beauty and the Beast like fantasy about a young woman choosing to be the periodic sacrifice taken by a local witch in 19th Century Germany. Bonus timey wimey curse. https://www.librarything.com/work/29239984/
#QueerSFF2023 @lgbtqbookstodon
#QueerSFF2023 @lgbtqbookstodon
Furious Heaven by Kate Elliott 🔆 Book 2 of the genderswapped Alexander the Great in space trilogy has more Sun/Hetty, and a whole lot of plot as Sun strikes into the heart of the Phene Empire. https://www.librarything.com/work/25888378/
#QueerSFF2023
#QueerSFF2023
Audition by Pip Adam 🚀 Three giants are crammed in a spaceship, having to choose between staying silent and growing, or talking and moving towards a possible destination. Can they confirm their shared past by talking it?
https://www.librarything.com/work/30310518/
#QueerSFF2023 #Polyamory #Incarceration
https://www.librarything.com/work/30310518/
#QueerSFF2023 #Polyamory #Incarceration
Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo 🐺 A researcher chooses to ride the mind of one of the last wild wolves, despite her wife's ethical qualms. Novella.
https://www.librarything.com/work/28514951/
#QueerSFF2023 #LesbianFiction #Wolves
https://www.librarything.com/work/28514951/
#QueerSFF2023 #LesbianFiction #Wolves
Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang 🌠 Misery is a reluctant messiah in the space religon they have grown up repudiating.
https://www.librarything.com/work/27624657/
#QueerSFF2023
https://www.librarything.com/work/27624657/
#QueerSFF2023
The First Bright Thing by J R Dawson 🎪 In an alternate history where magic sparks have altered the mid 20th century, three women take a young sister and brother into their circus.
https://www.librarything.com/work/28727116/
#QueerSFF2023
https://www.librarything.com/work/28727116/
#QueerSFF2023
Misrule by Heather Walter 🧚 This sequel to Malice is set 100 years later, as Alyce rules a Dark Court in the former Briar land while Aurora still sleeps.
https://www.librarything.com/work/27380154/
#QueerSFF2023 #YoungAdult #FairytaleReimagining
https://www.librarything.com/work/27380154/
#QueerSFF2023 #YoungAdult #FairytaleReimagining
The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa 🍵 After her lover is killed Enitan heads into the heart of the Empire to recue her sibling - and finds herself working with the new Empress.
https://www.librarything.com/work/29343478/
#QueerSFF2023 #LesbianFiction
https://www.librarything.com/work/29343478/
#QueerSFF2023 #LesbianFiction
Sister Maiden Monster by Lucy A. Snyder 🐙 In this pandemic-initiated horror the before is heterosexual fantasy and the after reveals the characters as lesbian, bisexual, asexual and trans even as it drops into eldritch apocalypse. All the trigger warnings.
https://www.librarything.com/work/28589925/
#QueerSFF2023 #Horror
https://www.librarything.com/work/28589925/
#QueerSFF2023 #Horror
He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan 🌊 The sequel to She Who Became The Sun is just as queer and just as epic, as Zhu fights multiple factions for the role of Emperor.
https://www.librarything.com/work/29468771/
#QueerSFF2023 #Genderqueer
https://www.librarything.com/work/29468771/
#QueerSFF2023 #Genderqueer
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh 🛰️ Raised on a secret space station as a perfectly engineered soldier intent on vengeance for the destruction of Earth, Kyr is the most committed of her agemates, until she is selected for the nursery instead of a fighting cohort on graduation, and her view of her world starts to unravel.
https://www.librarything.com/work/26911573/
#QueerSFF2023
https://www.librarything.com/work/26911573/
#QueerSFF2023
Sweet & Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley 🧙♀️ 🤷♀️ Two teens, one an exiled witch and one who has always hidden her magic, are forced to work together when a magical plague threatens.
https://www.librarything.com/work/24621678/
#QueerSFF2023 #Witches #YoungAdult
https://www.librarything.com/work/24621678/
#QueerSFF2023 #Witches #YoungAdult
She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran 👻 A ghost story about a Vietnamese-American teen spending a summer helping her estranged father renovate a colonial mansion and the local girl who helps her.
https://www.librarything.com/work/28282249/
#QueerSFF2023 #GhostStories
https://www.librarything.com/work/28282249/
#QueerSFF2023 #GhostStories
A Fire Born of Exile By Aliette de Bodard 🎏 Mysterious scholar Quỳnh returns to get revenge but then she meets Hoà, an old friend's sister, and Minh, the daughter of her nemeses, and her plans are undone by her compassion. Another Xuya universe story. https://www.librarything.com/work/book/253458925
#QueerSFF2023 #MindShips
#QueerSFF2023 #MindShips
Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs 📚 🩸 Joanna is trapped in the family home protecting a secret library of magical books, while her sister Esther, fleeing endlessly, hopes she can stay another season with her girlfriend in Antarctica until she recognises the signs that someone is casting spells.
https://www.librarything.com/work/29117107/
#QueerSFF2023 #MagicBooks
https://www.librarything.com/work/29117107/
#QueerSFF2023 #MagicBooks
These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs 🪐 Choni survived the harsh Kindom schooling, Jun ran from the slaughter of her family to become a virtuoso hacker, both lives were shaped by murderous Esek and the teasing shadow that was once Six, descendant of a traitor.
https://www.librarything.com/work/29555559/
#QueerSFF2023
https://www.librarything.com/work/29555559/
#QueerSFF2023
Saint Death's Daughter by CS Cooney 💀 Lainey is a necromancer with an allergy to violence, raised outside society by an undead servant and her grandfather's ravening ghost. f/nb
https://www.librarything.com/work/26860973/
#QueerSFF2023 #Necromancy
https://www.librarything.com/work/26860973/
#QueerSFF2023 #Necromancy
How To Get A Date With An Evil Queen by Marie Cardno 👑 Sian and Trillin get trapped in a fairytale world that is determined to force them into very particular archetypes. Novella.
https://www.librarything.com/work/29495799/
#QueerSFF2023 #NZFiction #FairytaleReimagining
https://www.librarything.com/work/29495799/
#QueerSFF2023 #NZFiction #FairytaleReimagining
And here's my round up post with everything from the thread. 49 Queer Female Speculative Fiction Books read in 2023. https://aquila1nz.dreamwidth.org/39765.html Thanks you to those who replied, I think it'll be the last time I try posting it like this. #QueerSFF2023
exlibrarykris@aquila1nz brilliant, thank you! Ive read three on that list with 3 more hanging about the house and am delighted to find more to add.