#derin edala

[gen-reads-tournament]

Round 1 Match 31

Pick your favorite gen read:

Time to Orbit: Unknown by Derin Edala

Not Even Bones (Market of Monsters Series) by Rebecca Schaeffer

Voting ended onAug 11

Book summaries below:

Time to Orbit: Unknown by Derin Edala

When Dr Aspen Greaves signed up for the Javelin Program, humanity's first foray into colonising deep space, they expected to wake up to life in a thriving colony on a distant planet. Instead, they find themself five years away from their destination on a broken spaceship full of complex mysteries, dead astronauts, and a very unhelpful AI.

Aspen wasn't trained for any of this. But if they can't keep themselves alive, get the ship in working order, and find out what went wrong by unravelling a chain of mysteries leading all the way back to distant Earth, then neither Aspen nor the five thousand sleeping passengers in their care will ever see a planet again.

science fiction

Not Even Bones (Market of Monsters Series) by Rebecca Schaeffer

Dexter meets This Savage Song in this dark fantasy about a girl who sells magical body parts on the black market — until she’s betrayed. Nita doesn’t murder supernatural beings and sell their body parts on the internet—her mother does that. Nita just dissects the bodies after they’ve been “acquired.” But when her mom brings home a live specimen, Nita decides she wants out — dissecting living people is a step too far. But when she tries to save her mother’s victim, she ends up sold on the black market in his place — because Nita herself is a supernatural being. Now Nita is on the other side of the bars, and there is no line she won’t cross to escape and make sure no one can ever capture her again. Nita did a good deed, and it cost her everything. Now she’s going to do a lot of bad deeds to get it all back.

fantasy, horror

Propaganda:

Main character is implied to be aromatic and her partner is implied to be asexual

[javelinprogramaudiobook]

And that's a wrap!

The Javelin Program (Time to Orbit: Unknown #1) (fan audiobook recording) : Derin Edala : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Ar

When Dr Aspen Greaves signed up for the Javelin Program, humanity's first foray into colonising deep space, they expected to wake up to life

For anyone curious, the total time stamp comes to almost exactly 18.5 hours. Phew! Enjoy!! I had fun making it! Thank you for giving folks permission to do this, @derinthescarletpescatarian!

[queerforscience]

Read this story about a normal and functional spaceship

Read this normal article about football

[queereads-bracket]

Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 1

Choose a book:

The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir

The Javelin Program by Derin Edala (Time to Orbit: Unknown series)

Voting ended onNov 30, 2024

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Locked Tomb series (Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, Nona the Ninth, and others) by Tamsyn Muir

Endorsement from submitter #1: "An extremely fun, humorous romp! A heart-breaking, soul crushing catharsis inducing tragedy! A thoughtful piece on imperial structures and trauma. On queerness, Muir flawlessly and without announcement, cracks gender open like an egg and spills its disproven guts across the page. The Locked Tomb does it all also bones, bitch."

Endorsement from submitter #2: "Lesbian necromancers in space. So many fascinating, sort of fucked up sapphic relationships going on."

The Emperor needs necromancers.

The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.

Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.

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.

Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. If Harrowhark succeeds she will become an immortal, all-powerful servant of the Resurrection, but no necromancer can ascend without their cavalier.

Without Gideon's sword, Harrow will fail, and the Ninth House will die. Of course, some things are better left dead.

Fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, humor, series, adult

The Javelin Program by Derin Edala (Time to Orbit: Unknown series)

When Dr Aspen Greaves signed up for the Javelin Program, humanity's first foray into colonising deep space, they expected to wake up to life in a thriving colony on a distant planet. Instead, they find themself five years away from their destination on a broken spaceship full of complex mysteries, dead astronauts, and a very unhelpful AI.

Aspen wasn't trained for any of this. But if they can't keep themselves alive, get the ship in working order, and find out what went wrong by unravelling a chain of mysteries leading all the way back to distant Earth, then neither Aspen nor the five thousand sleeping passengers in their care will ever see a planet again.

Science fiction, mystery, series, adult

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

Have you read The Javelin Program by Derin Edala (2024)?

yes

no

I didn't finish it

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onNov 25, 2025

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Queer Book Character Tournament Round One

Maria Olivares (Sabine)- Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil

Mark Blackthorn- The Shadowhunter Chronicles

Shao Lune- The Masquerade

Aspen Greaves- Time to Orbit: Unknown

Voting ended onApr 15

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Maria Olivares (Sabine)- Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil by VE Schwab

Mark Blackthorn- The Shadowhunter Chronicles by Cassandra Clare

Shao Lune- The Masquerade by Seth Dickinson

Aspen Greaves- Time to Orbit: Unknown by Derin Edala

[refurbishedconstruct]

I just devoured Time to Orbit: Unknown and The Antarctica Conspiracy by Derin Edala

I AM SCREAMING I AM GAGGED I AM FLAILING AND WATERING CROPS WITH MY TEARS IT IS SO GOOD

You need to read these ASAP if you like Stranger in a Strange Land, Contact, The Expanse, The Left Hand of Darkness

[culturesingularity]

@derinthescarletpescatarian with the normal spaceships. Maybe this one is normal! But they have a different problem :3

Inner Life 2: Sight

Previous The extra shots gave me an opportunity. The parts of me that weren’t connected to the eye, I’d spread out to sample signals from an