#queer sf

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Celebrate Pride with Tor Publishing Group!

Moss’d in Space by Rebecca Thorne (@rebeccathornewrites)

Torian Razner has finally bought a starship. So maybe it was abandoned for a century, and maybe it’s completely covered in moss, but it’s her ship now, and she’ll show her ex… er, captain. Except Torian discovers, mid-flight, that the moss is sentient. Not only is it sentient, it’s actually an organic computer. Not only is it an organic computer, but it’s got serious abandonment issues. And now the immortal alien that built the computer-moss wants its starship back, and Torian really looks like she just stole the ship, moss and all.

Out June 30, 2026!

Volatile Memory by Seth Haddon (@sethhaddonsblog)

Masks are military tech that can overcome the limits of human physiology, granting pilots and scavengers the crucial edge that could mean the difference between survival and death. Wylla, armed with nothing more than an outdated MARK 1 RABBIT and sheer desperation, plunges into the chase for an enigmatic MARK I HAWK—a mask that shouldn’t exist.

But HAWK has awakened to a mind of her own, and she sees Wylla in a way that no one ever has. Together, they might be able to stay ahead of their pursuers. Together, they might just burn down an empire.

Out in paperback on June 23, 2026!

[gollancz]

Pulley moves to Gollancz in two-book pre-empt following sci-fi tweet

Gollancz has signed Betty Trask Award-winning author Natasha Pulley’s “evocative and powerful” novel The Mars House, and one further title s

Our campaign to demonstrate that Space Is Really Gay continues apace!

Gollancz describes the novel as a “profoundly beautiful sci-fi romance exploring climate collapse, prejudice, privilege, class, and queer love through the prescient lens of a ballerina turned refugee fleeing an environmentally devastated Earth and an enigmatic Martian politician embroiled in a political crisis who agree to a fake marriage after a media encounter torpedoes both their reputations".

[spacefruitpress]

🌠Travel to the stars with our queer sci-fi romance anthology BINARY STARS - four stories of space-age hijinks that will steam up your atmosphere!

Get your copy here.

[smarterinabsentia]

A bleak double-feature about the merging of human consciousness w/ extinct/near extinct species. Nayler’s description of how mammoth memory works is 🤯

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[journalparadoxal]

livres lus, mars 2023

- Un psaume pour les recyclés sauvages, Becky Chambers ☆ ☆ ☆

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Celebrate Pride with Tor Publishing Group!

What We Are Seeking by Cameron Reed

No matter how little he wants to be a doctor on a planet where the local colonists practice the barbaric custom of marriage, Dr. John Maraintha doesn’t have a choice when he is assigned to the desert planet of Scythia. At least Sudharma Jain, the beautiful translation specialist, will be going with him as well… But on a planet where the transformations of the native wildlife baffle human understanding, the most treacherous machinations may still be the unpredictable patterns of human nature. 

The Language of Liars by S. L. Huang

Linguist Ro has spent his entire life studying for a single purpose: to jump into the body of one of the mysterious Star Eaters—the alien race who mines the elusive element needed to sustain a myriad intergalactic civilizations. To do so, he must do more than just learn the Star Eater language; he must become one of them. To think like them. To act like them. 

It never occurs to him that the mere act of understanding can destroy.

[gollancz]

I forgot to post anything for Pride month during Pride month but that's because we're so dedicated to LGBTQ+ fiction that every month is Pride month over at Gollancz towers (also my baby is teething and has hit sleep regression and I have lost my only recently regained grasp on the passage of time, I blinked and June had gone)

Anyway the latest installment in our Lesbians In Space collection is out now! THE STARS TOO FONDLY is a space adventure with a very sexy hologram. Like STAR TREK: PRODIGY. Except the crew are adults and one of them is a disaster lesbian who accidentally falls in love with the sexy hologram.

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Gollancz pre-empts 'queer science fiction odyssey' by Hamilton

Gollancz has pre-empted a "queer science fiction odyssey" and another book by Emily Hamilton. 

The Stars Too Fondly, which will be published in hardcover in summer 2024, follows Cleo and her group of post-grad friends who break into an abandoned spaceship, only for it to start up and send them into space. The synopsis reads: "The accidental astronauts must use their considerable intellects and the reluctant assistance of the ship’s previous captain Wilhelmina Lucas – an unsettlingly accurate hologram of the woman who disappeared with her crew 20 years ago – to maybe, if they’re lucky, figure out a way to get back home. "What Cleo is prepared for least of all are the confusing feelings she develops for the captain, which show no sign of going anywhere any time soon."

Can't wait for you guys to meet the lastest entry in our frankly phenomenal Lesbians In Space collection! Also falls under our Sexy Spaceships umbrella too.