Baroque, Bizarre, Brilliant: The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon
A disaster!queer on the run from AI gods = a confusing but stunning sci fi fever dream.
Category: Crescent Classics
4th Blogiversary = Pride Flag Book Recs!
Happy 4th birthday to Every Book a Doorway!!!
Obviously the best way to celebrate is with queer SFF recs!
Intimate Majesty: Witch King by Martha Wells
It’s been six years since Martha Wells’ last fantasy novel, and folx, it was so worth the wait.
A Dragon-Rider Book Like No Other: To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose
QUEER
NATIVE-AMERICAN
DRAGON-RIDERS!!!
A Myth-Making Masterpiece: Rituals by Roz Kaveney
This is a tale of a woman who hunts gods and another who makes magic come undone, and absolutely everything about it is perfect.
(Well. Except for that cover. Sigh.)
King Arthur Can Suck It!: The Winter Knight by Jes Battis
The Winter Knight is not a retelling.
The explanation behind the Arthurian knights being in Vancouver is much weirder (and queerer and more wonderful) than a mere retelling!
Gonna Be Legends, Already Legendary: The Eidolon by K.D. Edwards
An eidolon is ‘an idealised person or thing’, and I am here to tell you that The Eidolon is perfectly named; it is ideal in every possible way.
A Roadmap to a Future I Can Believe In: Everything For Everyone by M.E. O’Brien & Eman Abdelhadi
I’ve read a lot of books with their own takes on a ‘better future’.
But this is the first one I’ve ever seen that actually shows us how to make that future.
Run, Don’t Walk: Fractured Infinity by Nathan Tavares
What do you do when it’s a choice between someone you love and the lives of billions?
You grab your person and you run.
Gender Euphoria and Wrathful Witchery: The Scratch Daughters by H. A. Clarke
The best teen witches in print right now get even queerer and fiercer and more magical.