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[thatbluevampire]

I’ve been finding so many trans masc horror novels lately

-You Weren’t Ment to be Human by Andrew Joseph White

-Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White (haven’t read yet but I own it)

-Bite Back by Ess McKinney

-Only Half a Boy by Ess McKinney (currently readying)

Does anyone know more? Or other trans horror? I really want to find some trans fem horror too. Or maybe genderfluid/bigender horror? Not sure if that really exists yet though

[allforthesong]

Andrew Joseph White has written two more trans horror books if you like his stuff!

I can also suggest All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes which has a trans man protagonist. It’s a historical antarctic exploration horror novel

[kazuoishiguro]

✦ PROJECT HAIL MARY by andy weir —in the style of a 70s sci-fi novel.

[schnuspi]

What I can’t stop thinking about is that Kevin, by being raised in a creepy traumatising cult has had almost cliche textbook risk factor for developing a dissociative identity disorder. The cutoff age is considered at around six and Kevin got into the nest a year older I think but still. Suddenly no connection to normal and safe adults whatsoever.

Full DID would be kind of wild and he doesn’t seem the type in canon so far but I find it interesting thinking about Kevin maybe having a partial DID (that can sometimes easily fly under the radar)

Either way Nora writes trauma incredibly well in my opinion and I am so excited (and scared) for how Kevin’s pov will be like.

[mrschwartz]

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (2021) // Jonny Sun (2014)

[theknightandhersteed]

Things in the Project Hail Mary book that aren't in the movie that I think are delightful

Spoilers under the cut for the book

Stratt hires a climate change scientist and then nukes Antarctica and paves the Sahara desert and the scientist just sobs

Rocky calls Grace a leaky blob

Rocky thinks humans are crazy for doing EVAs

Stratt gets sued by Everyone for plagiarizing Everything

Grace gets scurvy

Grace drags Rocky back into his habitat after Rocky saves him, and he gets really bad burns from coming into contact with Rocky's atmosphere

Grace also power washes Rocky, but we don't talk about it

Rocky was orbiting Tau Ceti for 40 years before Grace came along

Rocky has anxiety about oxygen after he gets lit on fire by Grace's atmosphere

Rocky also has anxiety about Grace using the centrifuge because of how it almost killed him that one time

Grace also pulls that maneuver a few more times and repeatedly passes out (at least he doesn't get crushed by a metal chair after the first time, though)

During the confrontation with Grace and Stratt, Stratt calls Grace a coward and Grace says that Stratt is murdering him. Just much more aggressive language all around

Grace doesn't lose his memories from the coma; Stratt injects him with memory altering drugs. Her hope was that by the time he remembered, he'd either already be done, or he'd be in too deep to stop

Eridians don't know about relativity, which is said in the movie, but in the book Rocky talks about how he was basically running the ship alone with a faulty trajectory and STILL managed to make it to Tau Ceti

When taumoeba leaks into the Hail Mary's fuel, Grace immediately dismisses the possibility of Rocky's boxes failing because Rocky is such an incredible engineer

When Grace and Rocky separate, Grace does loser amounts of math to figure out how long he'll be able to see Rocky's ship

When Grace does something stupid, Rocky forces him to take a nap to be less stupid

Rocky doesn't have a voice, Grace just learns Eridian by using his laptop setup

Grace gets arthritis at the end from Erid's intense gravity

Grace also gets a slew of other diseases from malnutrition

He survives by eating taumoeba until the Eridians can figure out how to feed him

The Eridians feed Grace by synthesizing human meat. Grace calls them "me-burgers" and they're his favorite food

Rocky's blood is mercury and he eats toxic heavy metals

When Grace teaches Rocky about radiation, he gets Rocky to cover his side of the tunnel in astrophage to protect him. Rocky tells Grace to do the same, but Grace just lies and says that humans are immune to it. On the inside, he thinks that it doesn't matter if he gets cancer because he's going to die anyway :(

Rocky's ship is the first actual spaceship Eridians ever made. Rocky has to fix so many things on the way over, because they just have no experience with space travel

Rocky thinks it's really cool that Grace can see light, and he's a little jealous until the power goes out and Grace keeps blindly walking into things and Rocky is like "wow you are useless"

[aroace-ryland-grace]

Bringing my Spock and Kirk misery over to Rocky and Grace except it’s so much worse than I thought

[remnantglow]

classic scifi novels by men r always like. page 1 here’s a cool scifi idea i had. page 2 i hate women so much it’s unreal

[remnantglow]

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guys if one more person leaves a tag like this on my post im gonna lose my mind. There Are Science Fiction Authors Who Are Not Misogynistic Men

[remnantglow]

ok i’ve gotten one too many ‘this is why i don’t read sci-fi’ comments so here’s a rec list for the people convinced all science fiction is bad and misogynistic (with something for everyone, hopefully!):

(also, btw, the book links are to the Storygraph, which includes content warnings for each one!)

smth funny and lighthearted about a security robot who’d rather watch TV then do its job? all systems red by martha wells (first novella in the The Murderbot Diaries series, 6 books, ongoing)

a complex, intricate political space opera following a warship AI who’s lost (almost) everything? ancillary justice by ann leckie (first in the Imperial Radch trilogy) (fun fact! bc of space linguistics reasons, all characters in this series are referred to with she/her pronouns, making gender a non-factor - it’s really cool!)

a dark story about travelling between parallel universes and a woman who is dead in almost every single one? the space between worlds by micaiah johnson (standalone) (SO good, i don’t get to recommend it often enough!!!)

a story about grief and letting go, and a unique take on alien invasion? the seep by chana porter (standalone novella)

hey, how abt some dystopian YA, for old times sake? specifically, one with sapphics and sick mechas? try gearbreakers by zoe hana mikuta (first in duology)

or, if you’d prefer something a bit less angsty, YA about a ragtag group of teens and a space heist? the disasters by m. k. england (standalone)

alternate history steampunk that blurs the line btwn science fiction and fantasy? the black god’s drums by p. djeli clark (standalone, novella)

a dark gone girl-esque thriller about clones? the echo wife by sarah gailey (standalone)

poetic sapphic romance and time travel? this is how you lose the time war by max gladstone and amal el-mohtar (standalone)

a hopeful utopian future and a human-robot friendship? a psalm for the wild-built by becky chambers (novella, first out of two) (this author’s got a whole bunch of hopepunk sci-fi novels in general, if that’s smth you’re looking for!)

africanfuturism, coming-of-age, and cool jellyfish aliens? binti by nnedi okorafor (novella, first in trilogy)

spicy lesbian cyborgs? and shall machines surrender my benjanun sriduangkaew (novella, first in the Machine Mandate series, 6 books)

cosmic horror with an autistic scientist, cyborg angels and AI gods? the outside by ada hoffmann (first in trilogy, 2 books are out)

also, if you’re a fan of Janelle Monáe, may i draw your attention to the fact that they’ve recently come out with a Dirty Computer short story collection, each story co-written with a diff writer?

this list is long enough, but have some more authors (who are not cis men) also worth checking out: rivers solomon, yoon ha lee, charlie jane anders, aliette de bodard, xiran jay zhao, mary robinette kowal, corinne duyvis

and finally, not all older/classic scifi is written by crusty old white guys who hate women!!! some iconic authors i’d particularly recommend looking into are ursula k. le guin, octavia e. butler, samuel r. delany and vonda n. mcintyre 🥰

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You mention classic scifi women, but no Anne McCaffrey? I’m honestly surprised.

[butch-of-the-blades]

here are some of my favorites that i want to add:

• the cricket chronicles, by ryann fletcher: a spaceship mechanic teams up with a space pirate to take down an oppressive galactic regime. you can find books one thru six on oceanofpdf- alas, they don’t have the last one, but i’ll see if i can find it elsewhere.

• supermoon, by h. a. swain: a girl who lives on a colony on the moon escapes to earth, meets a girl, and they take down the megacorporation that’s draining both celestial bodies for resources. you can download it here on oceanofpdf.

• “the long way to a small, angry planet,” by becky chambers: a woman joins a ragtag space crew who are offered a ton of money to carry out a dangerous mission. you can download it here on the internet archive.

[andwhatexcellentboiledpotatoes]

Oh, so NOW everyone suddenly looooves Project Hail Mary! Every single person I recommended the book to four years ago and said that sounded "too weird" or "im not into sci-fi" is getting a personal letter that just says I TOLD YOU SO.

[jessiesjaded]

Ship dynamics are always like Sunshine and Sunshine protector~ Cinnamon roll and their grumpy one 🤗 Well what about 2 cunts. They're both cunts and that's the dynamic. cunt4cunt.

[penrenutet]

How do/would you primarily organize your bookshelf? No nuance, pick the one that is most important to you

by author surname

by title

by color

by height

by genre

by release date

by recently read

by how much you like them

via the Dewey Decimal System

by some other madness

Voting ended onMar 27

[allforthesong]

I genuinely think the reason I have been struggling to get into any books this month is because there is a specific book I want to (re)read so any other book just isn’t going to cut it

[aroace-ryland-grace]

How are we feeling guys

[allforthesong]

Does anybody have any book (or film/tv) recs like The Phantom of the Opera or The Hunchback of Notre Dame but where the main character with a facial difference actually gets the girl?

[allforthesong]

To clarify, I am looking for books where they get the girl, not where they get her for five minutes and she ends up with someone else at the end

[carlottagiudicellivevo]

buddy, are you saying you're like... mad that erik lets christine go because he loves her? that despite the extremes he went to he realized that he wanted her safety and happiness, and that what he really wanted all along was to know that he could be loved? was he supposed to force her to stay? she literally leaves because he lets her go. she chooses him and he lets her go.

[allforthesong]

Not at all! I actually adore the Phantom of the Opera!

I’m just looking for a specific trope and it was just the closest example I could think of to try and explain what I’m looking for

I’ve already seen Shrek and also love that! Definitely a good example of what I’m looking for

I haven’t seen the Shape of Water so thank you for the rec, I will definitely be watching that asap :D

[allforthesong]

Does anybody have any book (or film/tv) recs like The Phantom of the Opera or The Hunchback of Notre Dame but where the main character with a facial difference actually gets the girl?

[allforthesong]

To clarify, I am looking for books where they get the girl, not where they get her for five minutes and she ends up with someone else at the end

[sockssketchingshack]

I would like to thank the 1920's for their 'flat fashion era' which is basically when women would wear chest restrictors to have a flat figure.

I just know trans men from back then were going wild about this.

The next trending fashion style was the complete opposite as they went back to curvy shapes but that's just trends. They probably still were making these for awhile after their original hype.

But still, going from regular fabric wraps or bandages to one of these must've felt really good back then. Good for them. They deserve nice things.

[lengthy-artery]

one of my hobbies is giving custom fancy endpapers to books I've particularly enjoyed. here's a few of them :)

[jessaerys]

i love when you read/watch an influential piece of storytelling and you're like ohhhhhh ok i see. so everyone else was copying this guy's homework