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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
And the epic sapphic second books, these are all books I was very much looking forward to that did not disappoint and would all also fit in my top five. #QueerSFF2023
For more satisfying romances, I absolutely adored The Red Scholar’s Wake with it’s marriage of convenience plot, but these are all great. Sci-fi, fantasy, sci-fi, fantasy, sci-fi. #QueerSFF2023