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Queer science fiction challenges cisnormativity and heteronormativity while also pushing the boundaries of possibility and the imagination. Robots, necromancy, aliens, spaceships, soul control, and more await you in these out-of-this-world picks. 

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Gideon the Ninth 

by Tamsyn Muir

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

Sci-Fi/Fantasy: Gay characters?

It seems to me that homosexuality is used one of two or three ways by authors. First off, same-sex attracted characters are often inserted as a way for an author to demonstrate that the culture he is describing has evolved and is futuristic. I suppose that works, as in the real nature homosexuality has become more and more visible as time goes on, so we associate increased frequency and visibility of homosexuals, as well as relaxation of prejudices against them, with the passage of time. This can of course be used to also show a liberalization of the subject community, which in many cases is meant (and interpreted) as a characteristic of social evolution.

Homosexuality is also used to show evolution from a physical standpoint too, and has some post-human aspects to it too. A prime example of this is John Varley's The Ophiuchi Hotline, where body parts including genitals can be switched with such ease that the homosexual/heterosexual distinction really fails to mean anything.

Homosexuality can also be used as a tactic, or a stopgap in SF. For example, in The Forever Wa

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Do you appreciate your space adventures with a healthy dose of queerness? We’ve got you covered!

One of my favourites from this list is The Stars Are Legion - a biopunk territory opera set on a bizarre system of biomechanical worldships with a sapphic love triangle at the centre.

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The Stars Are Legion
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Hurley, Kameron
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Ancillary Justice
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Leckie, Ann
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Alien: The Cold Forge
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White, Alex
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Blackfish City
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Miller, Sam J.
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Autonomous
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Newitz, Annalee
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The Future of Another Timeline
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Newitz, Annalee
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The Light Brigade
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Hurley, Kameron
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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Le Guin, Ursula K.
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A Memory Called Empire : Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel
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Martine, Arkady
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This is How You Lose the Time War : An epic time-travelling love story, winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novella
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El-Mohtar, Amal, Gladstone, Max
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An Unkindness Of Ghosts
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Solomon, Rivers
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