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Upright Women Wanted – by Sarah Gailey
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Speculative fiction and other bookish things
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• A near-future dystopia that feels a lot like the Old Wild West • Queer librarians VS fascists FTW!
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• In the future, social media addiction isn’t getting any better • Queer youth on haphazard rescue mission
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• The return of the Evil Twin! • With something-percent more plotlines! • And more plot twists!
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• What if Ariel laid eggs? • A very gory, horror retelling of The Little Mermaid
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• A humble scullion can perform as much magic as the plot demands • Set during the Spanish Golden Age • Love interest is a brooding, cursed bad boi
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• A very magical government department • Witchcraft as female empowerment • Let’s all convene that TERFs are bad news
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• Prelude to what will become the Wormwood trilogy • A psychiatric institution that doesn’t do much for anyone’s mental health
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• What’s left of sentient warship develops her own individuality • Everybody gets she/her pronouns as the main character doesn’t really get gender • A very slow and pensive quest for revenge
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• First introduction to the Hainish Cycle • Folk-tale themes in a SF setting • Space princess seeks her heritage, at a price
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• Magic bureucracy isn’t any better than its real couterpart • Cosy found family vibes • Second-person narration can indeed work well
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• Water falls out of nowhere and works as a lie-detector • A coming out story with a magical premise
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• A short story set in what will become the Imperial Radch universe • A claustrophobic journey through space and memory
Aliens Artificial Intelligence Climate Fiction Cosy Dystopia Fantasy Fungi Gothic Historical Fantasy Horror Linguistics Magical Realism Mermaids Novel Novella Philosophy Queer Queernorm Setting Rant Review Retelling Science Fiction Short Story Space Opera Urban Fantasy Weird West Western Witches