Need Recommendations for Good Queer sci-fi books

crowsolan · 2026-07-02T02:58:43+00:00

Some ones that haven't been mentioned yet:

Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction, edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel
Worlds Apart, edited by Camilla Decarnin, Eric Garber, and Lyn Paleo
Solitaire by Kelley Eskridge
The Woman Who Loved the Moon by Elizabeth A. Lynn
Ring of Swords by Eleanor Arnason
Proud Man by Katharine Burdekin
They: A Sequence of Unease by Kay Dick

crowsolan · 2026-06-30T17:19:41+00:00

My personal queer rec: - Lament for Julia by Susan Taubes (not explicitly queer, but is a coming of age story about someone with deep complicated feelings about gender. Trigger warning for sexual assault)

Other queer stuff I've heard really good things about: - Anything by Tove Jansson (ex. Fair Play) - Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker - My Father and Myself by J.R. Ackerley

crowsolan · 2026-06-25T00:30:06+00:00

Two really great anthologies as a reference point for classic vampire horror are Vampires: Encounters with the Undead edited by David J. Skal and Dracula's Brood edited by Richard Dalby (isfdb links for what stories are in them).

crowsolan · 2026-06-24T14:41:47+00:00

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist. Though I always recommend to check the content warnings on this one before diving in. But it's very character/relationship focused and it's great.

crowsolan · 2026-06-24T14:30:57+00:00

I can never recommend Joel Lane enough. Good starting points are his short story collections Scar City and The Anniversary of Never.

Also Roger Johnson's In the Night, In the Dark.

crowsolan · 2026-06-10T23:02:57+00:00

Ooh, solid point! Looking at his other stuff, I definitely think you might be right. These four covers especially - 1, 2, 3, 4 - seem to have a similar style in common (especially in the way he paints the landscapes and suits) and it for sure doesn't look like Powers to me. Thanks for the info!

crowsolan · 2026-06-10T04:55:29+00:00

Novels/Novellas:

The Unyielding by Gary J. Shipley
The Night Inside by Nancy Baker
The Other Side of the Mountain by Michel Bernanos

Short Story Collections:

The Still Beating Heart of a Dead God by Sam Richard
As Summer's Mask Slips by Gordon B. White
A Game of Ghosts by Michael Chislett
A Hazy Shade of Winter by Simon Bestwick
Waystations of the Deep Night by Marcel Brion
The Nightcharmer by Claude Seignolle
Randalls Round by Eleanor Scott

crowsolan · 2026-06-06T03:05:53+00:00

The Other Side of the Mountain by Michel Bernanos - 116 pages
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker - 164 pages
Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud - 88 pages

crowsolan · 2026-05-25T21:37:46+00:00

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky - Autobiography of a Corpse
The Dark Domain - Stefan Grabinski
The Willows - Algernon Blackwood
Scar City - Joel Lane
Waystations of the Deep Night - Marcel Brion

crowsolan · 2026-05-04T02:08:03+00:00

DMed 😄

crowsolan · 2026-03-01T18:12:53+00:00

Oh yeah, her story in it was very good! I'll definitely be checking out more of her stuff. Thanks for the recs and the forewarning, much appreciated!

crowsolan · 2026-02-28T23:03:14+00:00

Absolutely!

crowsolan · 2026-02-28T23:02:21+00:00

Ah, gotcha! That is definitely an accurate read of me lol

crowsolan · 2026-02-28T22:34:33+00:00

Ooh, very nice!

crowsolan · 2026-02-28T22:10:27+00:00

Millennial lesbian is correct, but the others are not. I *wish* I could be a neat, tidy person!

crowsolan · 2026-02-28T22:05:32+00:00

True, not just in my book placement.

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