Casey PeelI've got something like 10 weeks to find and read 9 more good queer books for June's queer books for pride.
No pressure. 😬
bill (pliny the older)@gairdeachas If you want some recent recs:
Sharang Biswas’s The Iron Below Remembers is probably my favorite queer sf novella from last year: a cute queer archaeologist with a famous horny superhero boyfriend in an alt-history where it was India that had a world empire
Sam J Miller Red Star Hustle, short space opera about a gay hustler/spy who has information that he shouldn’t have
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz — my other favorite queer sf novella, a bunch of robots secretly take over a noodle shop ghost kitchen in a San Francisco a few years after California fought a successful war of independence against the federal government
A Mourning Coat by Alex Jeffers — gorgeous little queer novella about a grieving son who decides to make a coat in honor of his late father
Wearing the Lion by John Wiswell — loved this re-imagining of the relationship between Heracles and Hera (but I’m a classics nerd)
@PlinyTheOlder Fantastic, thank you for those! The first two are totally my jam and I've added them to my to-read list.
I read Automatic Noodle earlier this year. TBH I wanted more from it than it gave me.
A Mourning Coat sounds really interesting but I tend to avoid father-centric books due to some family trauma. I'll have to figure out if I'm up for that one at some point.
Appreciate the recs, thank you!
@gairdeachas looking forward to your final list. (I also read Blair Fell’s Disco Witches and enjoyed it)