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SF written by women/POC/LGBT+ authors? (literature.cafe)

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I've read and enjoyed (in random order):

Broken Earth and Inheritance series by N. K. Jemisin
Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
Teixcalaan series by Arkady Martine
How High We Go In The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Anything by Octavia Butler

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Left Hand of Darkness // Ursula K. Le Guin.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Absolutely recommend The Left Hand of Darkness! I loved it and it was possibly the only book to move my husband to tears. It explores gender both as a social construct and as a biological truth, as well as love across cultures.

Everything by Le Guin is gold, honestly. I particularly loved the fourth Erthsea novel, Tehanu, on gender discrimination. And The Dispossed, discussing exile. As an expat/immigrate, it resonated deeply with me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

On a light note, I enjoyed “Trail of Lightning” by R Roanhorse. What if native american myths came to life?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe try Ann Leckie.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was going to say Ursula Le Guin but someone beat me to it lol.

So instead: I haven't read all of her books yet, but I've really liked everything by Emily St. John Mandel that I've read so far. Station Eleven was great (and the TV series is even better somehow!) and Sea of Tranquility was super interesting.

[–] Alendi 1 points 1 year ago

I really liked St. John Mandel books! I will have to watch the TV adaptation

[–] Alendi 1 points 1 year ago

Connie Willis is a SF author I love. Her short stories are very political in regards of gender and sexuality, then you have her long time-travel books and her short romantic-comedy novels.

Aliette de Bodard also has many nice stories (I have only read some of the Xuya ones)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Anything by Becky Chambers really! Her Wayfarers (starting with The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet) and her Monk and Robot (starting with A Psalm for the Wild-Built) series are such cozy scifi!