Queer science fiction challenges cisnormativity and heteronormativity while also pushing the boundaries of possibility and the imagination. Robots, necromancy, aliens, spaceships, mind control, and more await you in these out-of-this-world picks.
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Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won’t set her free without a service.
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When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio’s former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together, the rest of Vic’s assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming.
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“Good Omens” meets “The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet” in a defiantly joyful adventure set in California’s San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts.
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Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn’t an accident–or that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court.
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Tennal and Surit can no longer abandon their unit or their world. The only way to avoid life under full military control is to complete the very sync they’ve been faking. Can two unwilling weapons of war bring about peace?
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It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools and wandered, en masse, into the wilderness. Years later, Sibling Dex, a tea monk, leaves Panga’s only metropolis seeking solitude, venturing into the protected wilderness zone where no human has set foot in centuries.
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Trouble finds Cara when one of her eight remaining doppelgängers dies under mysterious circumstances, plunging her into a new world with an old secret. What she discovers will connect her past and her future in ways she could have never imagined–and reveal her own role in a plot that endangers not just her world but the entire multiverse.
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Two rival groups, the Agency and the Garden, are fighting a time war over whose vision of the universe should prevail. Red and Blue, agents on opposing sides of the time war, taunt each other with notes left behind as each undoes the work of the other.
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