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recs: books with queer characters

(Anonymous) 2013-12-07 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
So anyone have any recs for books with queer characters where the story isn't about them being queer? I have a preference for fantasy, but at the moment I'm just really hankering for books with queer characters being awesome and it not being a 'coming out' story or something.

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(Anonymous) 2013-12-07 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
the Nightrunner series comes to mind; I've read the first... five, I guess?.. of the books. The first two are really good and they get patchy from then on out but the main characters are a gay couple but the story is fantasy-adventure more than romance for sure.
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[personal profile] republicanism 2013-12-07 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
FUCK YEAH LUCK IN THE SHADOWS THAT BOOK WAS MY SHIT
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[personal profile] darkmanifest 2013-12-07 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
Seconding this. I've read them all so far, they're very good adventure/spy fantasy novels that just so happen to star a (very happy) gay couple, and some great female characters, too (with their own POV chapters). The last book was pretty lukewarm, but I'm just happy the series hasn't devolved into a love triangle or some bullshit.
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[personal profile] ariakas 2013-12-07 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
Thirding this, and also seconding the warning that the books turn to shit after the first two. Absolute dreck after the third.

First two are absolutely worth the read, though there is a bit of "coming out" in the first one.

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(Anonymous) 2013-12-07 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
Hate to start off with the "not quite what you asked for but...", but:

It's not a book, but the podcast Welcome to Night Vale does a really good job of having a gay couple get together without it being at all a major issue, and it's just sort of a background bit to the rest of the (weird, weird) stuff that's going on.

I seem to recall a number of the Valdemar books having queer characters without it being a big deal, but I can't remember which were those and which were ones where it was a pretty central focus. I feel like the middle Vanyel book was mostly him being awesome, and not full of him dealing being gay.

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[personal profile] sarillia 2013-12-07 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
My friend wrote a book that I'm not entirely sure if it meets your criteria. It's not a coming out story but the fact that the main character is a lesbian is important to the story. You can judge based on the blurb on the publisher's site: http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=72

It's adorable and sort of fairy-tale-like.

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(Anonymous) 2013-12-07 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
Tamora Pierce, specifically the Emelan books Will of the Empress and Battle Magic for the queer characters being overt. The first Circle of Magic quartet is focused around the main four being young kids, so sexuality doesn't feature heavily, and the Circle Opens quartet is when they're in their early- to mid-teens and finding new students to teach, so it's on the back burner so to speak, but Will of the Empress makes canon people's assumptions about two of their teachers (a bisexual woman and a lesbian) and one of the main four realises she's a lesbian; Battle Magic has the bisexual woman as a main character and also touches a bit on polyamory.

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(Anonymous) 2013-12-07 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
Mercedes Lackey has a few in the Valdemar series. There are gay characters throughout all the books but The Last Herald-Mage series has a gay main character.

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(Anonymous) 2013-12-07 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
If you're not opposed to comic books, Batwoman is really, really good. It's also one of those comics where you can just jump in and don't have to read any other comics to understand what's going on, so there's no need to worry about the huge clusterfuck that is DC continuity.

And the art is gorgeous!

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[personal profile] ginainthekingsroad 2013-12-07 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
I've recommended it a few times here before, but Jo Walton's Small Change trilogy! Farthing, Ha'Penny, Half a Crown. They're alternate history mysteries set in a fascist Britain. The main character, Inspector Carmichael, is gay and there are a number of other gay and bi characters (both sympathetic and un-). David and Lucy Kahn in Farthing are sort of Charles and Julia Ryder from Brideshead Revisited but with a happy ending.

Carmichael is a great character- most of his story is about wanting to just bring criminals to justice and go home to Jack like he did pre-fascism, but there's also a big conspiracy that's making that a lot more complicated. Anyway I recommend the series highly both for great AH writing and for interesting queer characters.

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(Anonymous) 2013-12-07 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
the Seven Brothers trilogy by Curt Benjamin has some gay gladiators that go on to great things and it's treated as functionally normal. they're not the protag but they are pretty close to him in the ensemble cast. they have the cutest protective relationship, too.

they're pretty good fantasy books, too, set in a more Asian-type setting than European

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(Anonymous) 2013-12-07 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Outremer series by Chaz Brenchley

Rain Wilds series by Robin Hobb

Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner

Legends of the Red Sun by Mark Charan Newton

Tales of the Five series by Diane Duane

Stone Dance of the Chameleon trilogy by Ricardo Pinto

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(Anonymous) 2013-12-07 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
The book I'm writing.

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(Anonymous) 2013-12-07 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Malinda Lo and Sarah Waters

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(Anonymous) 2013-12-07 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Not sure this completely fits, but The House of Discarded Dreams by Ekaterina Sedia is about a gay black girl living in the States who moves into a house which promptly floats away into an uncharted ocean, and she has to reconcile herself with the myths and monsters of her parents' Africa and her own childhood in order to get back to shore. Part of the story is her figuring out that she's in love with one of her housemates, but the focus is much more on her learning to give and accept love from other people in the framework of a coming-of-age story, rather than 'omg I like girls', and there's no gay panic involved and nobody makes a big deal out of who she's in love with. It's also just a fantastically surreal book.

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(Anonymous) 2013-12-07 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
http://www.amazon.com/Brushback-An-Evan-Austin-Mystery/dp/0982365101/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386382631&sr=8-1&keywords=brushback
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[personal profile] darkmanifest 2013-12-07 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
The Santa Olivia duology by Jacqueline Caery (lesbian main character) is a good one, set in a near-future dystopia. The second book is somewhat blah, but the first was amazing, IMO. Very badass starring chick.

I actually have this backlog of queer fantasy books that I keep meaning to get to; the ones I'm most looking forward to are: The Steel Remains by Richard K Morgan, the Elemental Logic series by Laurie J Marks, the Riverside series by Ellen Kushner (I read a short story related to this universe awhile ago and liked it), and The Fire's Stone by Tanya Huff.

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(Anonymous) 2013-12-07 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
Solitaire by Kelley Eskridge (speculative fiction)
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[personal profile] saku 2013-12-07 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
just a question posed out of curiosity - when you say a story "about them being queer," what, in the story, would make this the case for you? merely mentioning their sexuality or a love interest they have? or something else?

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[personal profile] hands4healing 2013-12-07 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
My friend's stories and novel: http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/index.php?cPath=55_202&osCsid=9s9n35o96uduugom6cdolc1pv5 She has a new novel coming out in February, too.

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[personal profile] cbrachyrhynchos 2013-12-07 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
Most of Joan Slonczeski. Anything by Bujold featuring Bel Thorne, Ethan, or Aral (also the first two Chalion). N.K. Jemisin with her whole love-hate-love triangle among her gods. Beyond Binary is a reasonable anthology. Terra Nova: An Anthology of Contemporary Spanish Science Fiction was better.
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[personal profile] cakemage 2013-12-07 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
Jim C. Hines' Princess series is good, and The Dark Wife by Sarah Diemer is a fun read, but also kind of silly and Hades is a bit of a Mary Sue. I still enjoyed it, though.

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(Anonymous) 2013-12-07 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Jim Grimsley, Kirith Kirin, high fantasy book with the main characters being gay/bi and becoming a couple in the course of the series. Also having a secondary lesbian couple. The queerness is a none issue, though the romance does have it's spot in the narrative (it's basically high fantasy, farmboy to merlin story, with farmboy falling in mutual lust/love with the high king and).

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(Anonymous) 2013-12-07 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)
The Warchild series by Karin Lowachee is Sci-Fi with queer characters. I love them a lot.

The Havemercy series by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett has a gay couple and lots of subtext for another and later, has other queer characters as well - it's some sort of Steampunk Fantasy, I'd say?

The Hexslinger trilogy by Gemma Files is a Western/Horror series with queer characters and, while not unimportant for the story, it's not the main conflict in the series. It's an interesting read, though if you know 3:10 to Yuma, some characters may seem familar.

Kirith Kirin by Jim Grimsley has a gay main couple but it's definitely more about the magic and the story than about the characters being gay.



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