The Unbalancing, R.B. Lemberg
Beneath the waters by the islands of Gelle-Geu, a star sleeps restlessly. The celebrated new starkeeper Ranra Kekeri, who is preoccupied by the increasing tremors, … Read more
Category Archives: LGTBQ+
Monk and Robot Series, Becky Chambers
In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers’s delightful new Monk and Robot series gives us hope for the future. See also the … Read more
Indie Corner – W.R. Woodbury
Back to the Indie Corner series This month’s Indie Corner is the first that features one of my relatives. W.R. Woodbury is my husband’s uncle. … Read more
The Moonday Letters, Emmi Itäranta
A gripping sci-fi mystery wrapped in an LGBTQIA love story that bends space, time, myth and science…An effortlessly rich and lyrical mystery wrapped in a … Read more
Thrust, Lydia Yuknavitch
As rising waters–and an encroaching police state–endanger her life and family, a girl with the gifts of a carrier travels through water and time to … Read more
Eleutheria, Allegra Hyde
“Allegra Hyde’s seductive first novel tackles the big stuff of climate change and the more intimate matter of heartbreak with grace. Indeed, Eleutheria bravely braids … Read more
After the Dragons, Cynthia Zhang
Click here to return to the series The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to other kinds of fiction, but … Read more
Green Rising, Lauren James
Set in a near-future world on the brink of ecological catastrophe, Lauren James’ novel is a gripping, witty and romantic call to arms. Gabrielle is … Read more
A Snake Falls to Earth, Darcie Little Badger
Darcie Little Badger introduced herself to the world with Elatsoe. In A Snake Falls to Earth, she draws on traditional Lipan Apache storytelling structure to … Read more
Love After the End, Joshua Whitehead
Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction a young adult anthology edited by Joshua Whitehead (Lambda Literary Award winner, Jonny … Read more
Matrix, Lauren Groff
Pandemics recur in her stories, as do natural landscapes ravaged by climate change, as do women who are quietly incandescent with rage. –The Atlantic
Read moreAfter Australia, Michael Mohammed Ahmad, et al.
Climate catastrophe, police brutality, white genocide, totalitarian rule and the erasure of black history provide the backdrop for stories of love, courage and hope. In … Read more
Road Out of Winter, Alison Stine
Urgent and poignant, Road Out of Winter is a glimpse of an all-too-possible near future, with a chosen family forged in the face of dystopian … Read more
Spotlight – Tlotlo Tsamaase
Click here to return to the series The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to other kinds of fiction, but … Read more
The Forever Sea, Joshua Phillip Johnson
The first book in a new environmental epic fantasy series set in a world where ships kept afloat by magical hearthfires sail an endless grass … Read more