When You Were Pixels by Julio Alexi Genao

Dalí Tamareia, the main character, has a resting neutral state, though other third gender people have/prefer either a male or female resting state.Īfter Dalí’s husband, wife, and their collective unborn child are murdered by human extremist conservatives, Dalí falls apart. It’s a gripping espionage tale revolving around the rights of humans known as third gender changelings, biologically intersex people who can assume secondary sex characteristics of either gender if they so choose. This novel reminded me how much I love space-based science fiction. Hamill ( NineStar Press / Amazon / Goodreads) Here are thirteen stories of love and queerness, hope and decolonisation, and the inevitability of change.”ĭalí by E.M. Tarot readers find hope in the cards witches live through the aftermath of war and Indian mothers think it’s high time you were married. “A refugee arrives from elsewhere in time a generation ship makes landfall a vast galactic empire settles to the business of government. Some of the short stories in this collection are science fiction, and some are fantasy, but they are all amazing. Not For Use in Navigation by Iona Datt Sharma ( Amazon / Goodreads) It’s a short read, very thoughtful and ultimately hopeful. It also has the gritty logistical details that I always want from post-apocalyptic lit, such as where the food is coming from, what survivors are scavenging, etc. It’s a post-apocalyptic story about people instead of, you know, zombies or killer robots, and specifically about how people get up and keep going after trauma, how they remake themselves, and how they re-connect to other people. I really liked this quiet short story about a young woman named Dell who survives a plague that kills most of humanity. Open Mic Night at the End of the World by Jessica Meyers ( Amazon / Goodreads) Please let me know via my contact form if you find something yikes in a book I recommend. Obviously a re-read years later might reveal a problematic aspect I didn’t pick up on back then.

(Disclosure: Amazon links are affiliate links.)Īny book on this list I loved at the time I read it, whether I had a chance to write a review or not. My reading interests lean heavily towards diverse authors and characters, so this list delightfully reflects that. So here are my fave recently read science fiction books – both novels and novellas – from my personal sci-fi reading renaissance. In the last few years, though, I’m back in the game. I went through a heavy sci-fi reading phase as a young person… then kinda got lost? With movies, tv, anime, and comics, I was getting my science fiction fix elsewhere.

When You Were Pixels by Julio Alexi Genao