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I've been reading A Half Built Garden and was wondering if TBB had any opinions on it or other queer sci fi
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Aug 17, 2022 06:26
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I haven't read A Half Built Garden, but for queer-friendly SF I'm a big fan of Becky Chambers. A Long Way To A Small Angry Planet is a solid starting point. Seth Dickenson's The Traitor Baru Comorant has a gay protagonist and is excellent as well.
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Aug 17, 2022 08:31
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le guin, the left hand of darkness
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Aug 18, 2022 03:59
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TheFluff posted:le guin, the left hand of darkness Tried it, got bored after a few confusing pages, don't feel compelled to try again, D
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Aug 18, 2022 04:04
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Liquid Communism posted:I haven't read A Half Built Garden, but for queer-friendly SF I'm a big fan of Becky Chambers. A Long Way To A Small Angry Planet is a solid starting point. Seth Dickenson's The Traitor Baru Comorant has a gay protagonist and is excellent as well. I've read all of Becky's work. A lot of vaguely interesting ideas that don't get explored, and a lot less queer than the marketing makes it out to be. C+ Never tried The Traitor, what do you like about it, and is by a queer writer?
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Aug 18, 2022 04:05
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tokin opposition posted:Tried it, got bored after a few confusing pages, don't feel compelled to try again, D You probably should, it’s extremely rewarding in spite of being slightly dense and getting off to a bit of a slow start. But then, it’s one of my absolute favorite books of all time so I’m probably more than a little biased. Frankly, all or Le Guin’s work has a slightly queer bent or queer elements, even the ones that don’t even really deal directly or indirectly with gender identity. Like In her novel The Dispossessed, I seem to recall that the (heterosexual) protagonist has a friend in his youth who is referred to as “probably gay” and whom the protagonist stays with (and apparently has sex with) over a couple weeks - this takes place on a planet with an anarchic political system and a somewhat collectivist society, and I got the sense that this was more an example of a much more relaxed attitude toward masculine gender roles than any sort of personal statement about the sexuality of the main character, though.
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Aug 18, 2022 07:57
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I struggled with The Left Hand of Darkness too, before I went away and read some more accessible Le Guin first. It's a great book but I don't begrudge anybody bouncing off it. Acknowledging that it requires some pushing through, it is worth pushing through on. While I'm here, The Locked Tomb.
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Aug 18, 2022 08:14
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Machineries of Empire is very good and very gay.
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Aug 18, 2022 22:48
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:I struggled with The Left Hand of Darkness too, before I went away and read some more accessible Le Guin first. It's a great book but I don't begrudge anybody bouncing off it. Acknowledging that it requires some pushing through, it is worth pushing through on. Seconding the Locked Tomb, especially if you like messy, messy character dynamics I'd also recommend Kameron Hurley's books. She seems to operate on a Queer Woman Protag As Default principal. The Bel Dame Apocrypha is good for some pulpy action-sci-fi and The Light Brigade is really good
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Aug 18, 2022 23:56
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Rereading locked tomb, listening to locked tomb podcast, and realizing that queer women have a culture I don’t get and it permeates the book. So congratulations to getting this into a best-seller because goddamn I’m now revisiting so much (straight, but dad gay so what).
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May 9, 2023 21:22
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Remulak posted:Rereading locked tomb, listening to locked tomb podcast, and realizing that queer women have a culture I don’t get and it permeates the book. oh hey my dad's gay too 
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May 9, 2023 22:21
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I enjoyed Dark Water’s Embrace by Stephen Leigh. Summary doesn’t really do it justice, but it’s pretty queer
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May 9, 2023 23:50
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Goon book The Dawnhounds The Spear Cuts Through Water I guess those are more fantasy than sf but it's all the same genre to me anyway.
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May 10, 2023 20:49
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Delaney's dhalgren doesn't have spaceships in it but one of the characters says he's in a sci-fi story so I think it counts. It's a pretty cool book.
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May 13, 2023 03:57
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tokin opposition posted:Tried it, got bored after a few confusing pages, don't feel compelled to try again, D Try it again, you don’t really need to particularly agree or disagree with what it says, it’s just worth it for the beauty of her language “It had not rained, here on these north-facing slopes. Snow-fields stretched down from the pass into the valleys of moraine. We stowed the wheels, uncapped the sledge-runners, put on our skis, and took off—down, north, onward, into that silent vastness of fire and ice that said in enormous letters of black and white DEATH, DEATH, written right across a continent. The sledge pulled like a feather, and we laughed with joy.”
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May 15, 2023 22:41
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Counterpoint, I’ve tried to get into leguin over and over but I just can’t do it. I read for stories, not for prose, and her stories don’t do anything for me.
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May 16, 2023 00:14
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May 16, 2023 20:08
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Nae posted:Counterpoint, I’ve tried to get into leguin over and over but I just can’t do it. I read for stories, not for prose, and her stories don’t do anything for me. Read omelas and quote it so you sound smart at parties.
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May 16, 2023 20:34
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Lawman 0 posted:Read omelas and quote it so you sound smart at parties. I’d rather let other people do that and say “I’m the one who walks away from this conversation.”
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May 17, 2023 00:55
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Nae posted:Counterpoint, I’ve tried to get into leguin over and over but I just can’t do it. I read for stories, not for prose, and her stories don’t do anything for me. short stories are always a solid bet if you are tiktok-tier like this
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May 17, 2023 02:46
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Nae posted:I’d rather let other people do that and say “I’m the one who walks away from this conversation.” Nice.
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May 17, 2023 03:44
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The ones who see Omelas and do a 360
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May 17, 2023 17:05
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General Battuta posted:The ones who see Omelas and do a 360 noscope
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May 17, 2023 17:13
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Ancillary Justice by Anne Leckie is wonderful sci-fi and features a gender-blind society. Strong recommend.
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Jun 12, 2023 15:02
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I liked A Half Built Garden a lot, but DNF for some reason? I really enjoyed the post-fall of capitalism world and the aliens were super interesting. You might like her book Winter Tide, which is set in Cthulu mythos world. Seconding the Imperial Radch series by Ann Leckie, which would include the original Ancillary etc trilogy, Provenance and the new book, Translator State. There's some vauge queer romance but mostly it just feels....gay. It's a gay galaxy. I pretty much only really like reading stuff if it's gay or has queer vibes so here's my list, also some of these aren't sci fi but are fantasy and also there's some horror: Karin Tidbeck - Amatka Ness Brown - The Scourge Between Stars Chana Porter - The Seep, The Thick and the Lean Annalee Newitz - Autonomous, The Terraformers Emily Tesh - Some Desperate Glory, Silver in the Wood Andrew F. Sullivan - The Marigold Gretchen Felker-Martin - Manhunt Martha Wells - Murderbot series Hiron Ennes - Leech Becky Chambers - Wayfarers, Monk and Robot Everina Maxwell - Winter's Orbit, Ocean's Echo Marina J Lostetter - Activation Degradation Olga Ravn - The Employees Maya Deane - Wrath Goddess Sing Sam J. Miller - Blackfish City Kameron Hurley - The Stars Are Legion Tamsyn Muir - The Locked Tomb series Caitlin Starling - The Luminous Dead Kate Elliott - Unconquerable Sun, Furious Heaven Haven't read, but have been recommended: Al Hess - World Running Down Malka Older - The Mimicking of Known Successes Janelle Monae - The Memory Librarian Tessa Gratton - Lady Hotspur Nicola Griffith - Ammonite Kayla Cottingham - This Delicious Death Emmett Nahil - Let Me Out big dyke energy fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Jun 13, 2023 |
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Jun 12, 2023 19:05
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Is it okay to plug this book in here?
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Jun 13, 2023 13:38
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No
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Jun 13, 2023 13:45
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K3nT3n posted:Is it okay to plug this book in here? "Template Guild is an ancient organization that has survived until modern times. Part secret society, part private intelligence agency, it seeks to find the true nature of reality and the meaning of existence. Lead by the Head Honcho, Ken, these fine men, women, and extradimensional entities walk down the darkest path in order to gain new understanding of alpha and omega; past and future. Some say that they are the only ones who truly exist and we are all nothing more than stardust memories." Desire to k........
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