#spellhacker

[machinel1ke]

Love love love stories where magic is a scientifically observable phenomenon

[slaughter-books]

Day 29: JOMPBPC: Freebie

I decided to make the Original Pride Flag from 1978 out of books! 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

Happy end of Pride Month! 🌈

[theafictionado]

Funky Queer Sci-Fi and Fantasy to Read this Pride Month

It goes without saying that one should read queer books all year, but Pride represents a perfect opportunity to wave the flag for fiction with LGBTQIA+ protagonists and themes. So, amidst the flurry of recommendation posts, I present my own pile: specifically of genre fiction!

From urban fantasies about lesbians dealing with vengeful gods to far-future solarpunk road trips starring non-binary monks and everything in between, here are some novels I hold as exemplary examples of imaginative, speculative queer storytelling from the past few years.

Keep reading...

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Title: Spellhacker

Author: M.K. England

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2020

Genres: fiction, fantasy, LGBT+, science fiction, romance

Blurb: In Kyrkarta, magic - known as maz - was once a freely available natural resource. That was before an earthquake released a magical plague, killing thousands and opening the door for a greedy corporation to make maz a commodity that's tightly controlled...and, of course, outrageously expensive, which is why Diz and her three best friends run a highly-lucrative and highly-illegal maz siphoning gig on the side. Their next job is supposed to be their last heist ever...but when their plan turns up a powerful new strain of maz that literally blows up in their faces, they're driven to unravel a conspiracy at the very centre of the spell plague, and possibly save the world.

[pickledfingers]

So I just finished a book called Spellhacker and it was a very good queer fantasy YA book. I've been on a ya kick while I'm working because it's easier to keep up if I need to zone out for a bit.

That said, when I started reading the book. I noticed a not insignificant number of the reviews said that the book's villain was cartoonishly evil with poorly defined motives. I went into the book a little weary, because I don't like when villains are just evil cackling people. Give me motive, you know?

Spoiler below:

The book's villain is a corporation who has been irresponsibly mining a powerful resource leading to pollution, sickness, and earthquakes. All for the sake of money.

Like, are you kidding? That's not cartoonishly evil, that's literally exactly how fracking works.

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: LGBTQIA YA About Plagues

Fave Five: LGBTQIA YA About Plagues

At the End of Everything by Marieke Nijkamp All That’s Left in the World by Erik J. Brown Spellhacker by M.K. England Sweet & Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley The Names We Take by Trace Kerr Bonus: Coming up in November, The Ones We Burn by Rebecca Mix

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[solreefs]

have you read spellhacker. if not guess what it's about

Um. There is a nonbinary wizard who discovers they have the power to hijack other people’s magic. They go to magic school and must hide this power from everyone. Chaos and dragons ensue.

[brilliantyears]

Spellhacker by M. K. England for the Booklr Ask Game / Recs 🚀It's my absolute favourite book and if you haven't read it yet I 100% recommend it.

I haven't read it! Putting it on my TBR, thanks for the recommendation! :D

Soooo a counter rec based on the summary for Spellhacker! This is 100% based on the vibes I'm getting from it and not so much on plot:

Interface by Lucy Mihajlich

The future always seemed bright, but it turns out that was just global warming. Meals don’t come in pills, shoes don’t lace themselves, and there are flying cars, but the gas mileage sucks. There is one difference. People have always searched the internet for answers. Now they actually worship it. Pen Nowen’s father was the founder of Interface, a computer company so big and powerful that people began praying to it. Especially when his death almost tanked the economy. Seven years later, Pen’s just finished her junior year of high school. For their summer vacations, all of her friends are going to Disneyland, Tijuana, or Disneyland Tijuana, but Pen’s going on a pilgrimage to pray for what’s left of her family. She’s on her way to the Interface flagship store when she gets kidnapped. It’s the second time this year. She’s about to begin the ransom negotiations when the kidnapper says that he doesn’t want money. He wants something else from her. Before Pen can text 911, he says something even creepier. He knows the truth about her dad’s death.