[ SECRET POST #3076 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3076 ⌋

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Comments

Fantasy/Sci-fi with gay characters?

[(Anonymous)]

Preferably gay protagonists. Are there any good ones?

(I admit I do enjoy slash/BL tropes, but a lot of "fanfic" style original gay fiction has been unsurprisingly really terrible in my experience)

Re: Fantasy/Sci-fi with gay characters?

[(Anonymous)]

Try some Mercedes Lackey books, she tends to have gay characters in them.

Re: Fantasy/Sci-fi with gay characters?

[(Anonymous)]

Lois McMaster Bujold's "Ethan of Athos".

Mercedes Lackey: Magic's Pawn, Magic's Promise and Magic's Price

Re: Fantasy/Sci-fi with gay characters?

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I decided to give the Mercedes Lackey one a shot!! And... I spent like forty minutes trying to figure out how to actually get the ebook of it. I'm an American with an American kindle, but I live in the UK, where apparently there is no Kindle version. But I went on Amazon.com for the American website, fully ready to pay with an American credit card, and it still thought I was in the UK. Eventually figured out how to change my settings on my Amazon Kindle management page, and could finally buy it. Because I had to work so hard to get this book (Magic's Pawn) I am sure I will love it.

Re: Fantasy/Sci-fi with gay characters?

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, wow! Well, after all that trouble I hope so. :)

Re: Fantasy/Sci-fi with gay characters?

[sarillia]

I just mentioned them above, but Shira Glassman's Mangoverse series has just about any underrepresented identity you can think of. She wrote them to contain everything she wanted to see in a fantasy series but never got, plus some stuff she loves that you do see a lot, like dragons and mysteries. These books make me so happy.

Disclaimer: she's a friend of mine so I might be biased.

Re: Fantasy/Sci-fi with gay characters?

[(Anonymous)]

Time Waits by C. B. Lewis is a time travel adventure story about a Hungarian soldier in WWII and a British historian from the future who fall for each other.

Re: Fantasy/Sci-fi with gay characters?

[cbrachyrhynchos]

The Mangoverse has been mentioned.
Ancillary Justice and Ancillary Sword.
About half of Slonczewsky's Elysium cycle (plus Highest Frontier).
Mandelo's Beyond Binary anthology is worth a look, although the stories are a bit uneven. I keep plugging Terra Nova as well although it's not an LGBT-focused anthology. The Lightspeed special issue, "queers destroy science fiction" should be available in the next month.

Re: Fantasy/Sci-fi with gay characters?

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Also Jemisin's Inheritance Trilogy, and I've just started Kameron Hurley's Worldbreaker although it's a bit tough to get into. Many characters in Ian Banks' Culture series are bisexual, although I'm still on the fence regarding bisexuality in The Culture.

Re: Fantasy/Sci-fi with gay characters?

[feotakahari]

Doctrine of Labyrinths comes to mind, as does Palimpsest (by Valente, not Stross.) I didn't like either, to be honest, but they're there.