#all the white spaces

[transbookoftheday]

Trans Horror Books

Looking for some trans horror books to read for Halloween? Here you go:

Book titles:

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

The Ojja-Wojja by Magdalene Visaggio and Jenn St-Onge

Let Me Out by Emmett Nahil and George Williams

The Honeys by Ryan La Sala

Even If We Break by Marieke Nijkamp

Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt

All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes

Bound In Flesh by Lor Gislason

#hell followed with us #the spirit bares its teeth #andrew joseph white #the ojja-wojja #magdalene visaggio #jenn st-onge #let me out #emmett nahil #george williams #the honeys #ryan la sala #even if we break #marieke nijkamp #tell me i'm worthless #brainwyrms #alison rumfitt #all the white spaces #ally wilkes #bound in flesh #lor gislason #nonbinary #genderfluid #transmasc #transfem #trans book of the day #trans books #queer books #horror books #bookblr #booklr

[inclusivefuture]

Queer book recs from IFM's editors

Mantha's Rec(s)

Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner Series and Tamír Triad

Any chance Mantha gets they recommend Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner Series and Tamír Triad. Both set in the same world but in two different eras, these fantasy series have become so dear to them over the years.

The Nightrunner books are part fantasy, part political intrigue, part murder mystery, all while exploring themes of belonging and identity. And while they don't have genders outside the binary, the two main characters are bi, cis men (with a little gender-nonconformity in there, too.)

The Tamír Triad tells the coming of age story of a trans girl at court in the midst of political upheaval: think Knights of the Round Table but King Arthur is trans.

Flewelling's writing is impeccable. She has a gift for character, detail, and setting that creates immersive worlds. Though not recent publications - the first book came out in 1996 - they were the first books Mantha read that showed them that the sky was truly the limit in fantasy writing.

Lydia's Rec

All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes

Not for the faint of heart, All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes is a historical thriller in which a trans man stows away on an expedition ship bound for the Antarctic from England.

Set just after WWII, the stakes are quickly raised when the ship - the only way the expedition is getting home - is destroyed just shy of their destination. Missing most of the crew and nearly all their supplies, the few remaining members of the expedition must find a way to survive the winter in Antarctica.

Stumbling across a German expedition's camp seems like a stroke of good luck - but where did the Germans go (and would they even believe the war was over?), and what lurks in the darkness just outside of the lamp light?

Sione's Rec

Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata

If you're a short story reader who loves weird, slightly dark speculative fiction (think George Saunders, Miranda July, Alexander Weinstein, Carmen Maria Machado), Sione highly recommends Sayaka Murata's book of short stories, Life Ceremony, which came out in paperback in May.

While the stories don't contain genders outside the binary, there is gay rep, asexual and aromantic spectrum rep, and neurodiversity rep.

But what really gets zir excied about this book are the themes! This is basically an entire short story collection about what's normal, who decides, and how changeable our social norms and taboos are, which opens a window into a future with many queer and neurodivergent possibilities. Ze hasn't been this excited about a new book in a very long time.

Originally published in our newsletter on July 31st, 2023.

#inclusivefuture #magazine #nightrunner series #nightrunner #lynn flewelling #tamír triad #tamir triad #all the white spaces #ally wilkes #life ceremony #sayaka murata #book recs #book recommendations #queer books #queer lit #queer book recs

[angryducktimemachine]

Was experimenting with brushes and it just kinda uhm. Ended up like this. Yeah it's kinda All The White Spaces isn't it. Yeah it's Randall.

[ID: a digital drawing of a man standing barefoot in the snow under bright screen polar lights. The lights are reflecting in his eyes as he is looking upwards. In the very front, another man is looking back with wife open eyes, his face is cut off under eyes by the canvas ending. /End ID]

#i should re-read all the white spaces #all the white spaces #polar lights

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Trans Historical Fiction

The Companion by EE Ottoman Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall Bonus: These are all Adult, but in YA, check out The Spirit Bares its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White Double Bonus: Coming in 2024, The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo

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#A Lady for a Duke #Alexis Hall #All the White Spaces #Ally Wilkes #Andrew Joseph White #Confessions of the Fox #EE Ottoman #Jordy Rosenberg #Lee Mandelo #Maya Deane #The Companion #The Spirit Bares its Teeth #The Woods All Black #Wrath Goddess Sing

[swordsonnet]

favourite genre: a guy called jonathan going through the horrors

#yes this is about jonathan sims and jonathan harker but also jonathan morgan from #all the white spaces #by ally wilkes #which is a criminally underrated book #tma #the magnus archives #dracula #dracula daily

[ofliterarynature]

Ok, it’s a *little* chilly outside, but I can’t resist a porch with a great view.

Book: All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes

#I LOVE me a porch #my dream house will have a porch and a sunroom #yes it was cold #but then it was Time For Soup #bec posts #from Instagram #2023 #books #booklr #all the white spaces

[wiltking]

i am trying so hard to get through All the White Spaces by ally wilkes. i restarted it from the beginning after the first attempt made me too annoyed with the main character and how his transness was portrayed but im 80 pages in (<20%) and its just getting worse. it feels like going through a checklist of a cis person's ideas on trans masculinity and i always have this problem with young trans characters in historical settings where they dont know any other trans people but are able to be so sure and clear about their transitional needs and their ability to assert this to those around them, and i know that stems from my very personal experience of fear when i was a trans child raised in a home with strict ideas of gender expression who didnt know the word transgender or that my feelings were anything more than a literal curse from the devil because i had no other frame of reference, and i dont want our stories to all be about fear and confusion and the threat of loss or violence but nothing about this character has endeared me to him and it also annoys me how 'lucky' he is to naturally have a small chest and ability to pass on a ship full of hardened ex soldiers. i think i mightve liked him a lot if i read this when i was younger and had stifled ideas of masculinity and what it could be like to live as a trans man, or had any real notion of how other trans men lived their lives. maybe im being too harsh. but even if he wasnt trans, theres nothing interesting about his personality and i wish the book was about Tarlington instead.

#really dont want to dnf but seeing how i keep putting it down after only getting through a few pages its not looking good #all the white spaces #book thoughts

[gigantomachylesbian]

Diversity win! The stowaway on this doomed Antarctic voyage is transgender!

#k talks #all the white spaces #<-anyways. read this if you want a really good historical survival horror! With a trans protagonist!! #it was so good. I fucking LOOOOOVE when things go horribly wrong <3 in inhospitable environments <3 and there's A BEAST OF SOME KIND!!!!!!

[hernamewasquynh]

All the White Spaces is a good book and this is all I have to contribute,

#the tag is Empty but I am here w nonsense #bc I cannot articulate my thoughts on this book I Loved it #mine #all the white spaces

[buniyaad]

everybody in All the White Spaces gettin they ass beat. by god, by ww1, by nature, hubris, snow, crevasses in the earth, closeted sexuality and gender identity, ghosts of family members who died in ww1, ghosts of lovers, mutiny, lack of food and showers, THE WIND, like nobody’s winning this one. everyone finna die 😭

#all the white spaces #ally wilkes #real talk #book hoe

[transbookoftheday]

All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes

Something deadly and mysterious stalks the members of an isolated polar expedition in this haunting and spellbinding historical horror novel, perfect for fans of Dan Simmons’ The Terror and Alma Katsu’s The Hunger.

In the wake of the First World War, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Antarctic expedition, determined to find his rightful place in the world of men. Aboard the expeditionary ship of his hero, the world-famous explorer James “Australis” Randall, Jonathan may live as his true self—and true gender—and have the adventures he has always been denied. But not all is smooth sailing: the war casts its long shadow over them all, and grief, guilt, and mistrust skulk among the explorers.

When disaster strikes in Antarctica’s frozen Weddell Sea, the men must take to the land and overwinter somewhere which immediately seems both eerie and wrong; a place not marked on any of their part-drawn mapsof the vast white continent. Now completely isolated, Randall’s expedition has no ability to contact the outside world. And no one is coming to rescue them.

In the freezing darkness of the Polar night, where the aurora creeps across the sky, something terrible has been waiting to lure them out into its deadly landscape…

As the harsh Antarctic winter descends, this supernatural force will prey on their deepest desires and deepest fears to pick them off one by one. It is up to Jonathan to overcome his own ghosts before he and the expedition are utterly destroyed.

#all the white spaces #ally wilkes #transmasc #trans book of the day #trans books #queer books #bookblr #booklr

[companionnpc]

She meant the bloom of a flower unfurling, but it made me think of mould creeping over old bread

-- Ally Wilkes, All The White Spaces

#all the white spaces #ally wilkes #trans #trans puberty

[angryducktimemachine]

Their unwell behavior caused by the Aurora Australis have captivated me.

The pointy ears are a stylistic choice I just like drawing pointy ears.

[ID: a digital drawing of Tarlington and Randall from 'All the White Spaces'. Tarlington is a white human man with freckles and ginger hair and facial hair. He's wearing a dark green greatcoat and fingerless gloves. He's looking quite serious. He has dark blue eyes. Randall is a white human man with curly dark hair with grey streaks and facial hair. He's wearing a knitted cap and a white knitted sweater with the sleeves pushed up. He has the same dark blue eyes as Tarlington. /End ID]

#all the white spaces #james randall #james tarlington #australis randall

[nondescriptloin]

Because I am slowly becoming obsessed with a book that appears to have little to no online presence, I wanna know:

#all the white spaces #Jonathan Morgan #horror fiction #books #novel

[swordsonnet]

thank you ally wilkes for writing absolute bangers of queer polar horror books, i owe you my life

#i finished where the dead wait today and holy shit what a novel #i think i liked it even more than all the white spaces. and that's saying something #the fact that it only has 3.3 stars on goodreads once again proves that goodreads users have no taste #all the white spaces #where the dead wait #ally wilkes

[ofliterarynature]

This month’s book club - a polar gothic/horror novel about a young trans man who stows away on an Antarctic exploration ship to find himself and the last memories of his lost brothers, and things (of course) go wrong - survival, let alone escape, is uncertain.

This was deemed ok by the group, but didn’t manage to really hold anyone’s interest. Instead I’d recommend checking out the short story Who Goes There? by John Campbell Jr.

#bec posts #this was supposed to be last months book but got delayed #so really I was glad I had time to reread Murderbot lol #this premise is interesting but the book really isn’t #and I think having an actually supernatural element was the wrong choice #2023 #from Instagram #books #booklr #book photography #all the white spaces