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winglesswriter · 11 months

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5 reasons you SHOULD NOT read Built on Ruins

1) The diversity. BPOC, different sexualities, even disabled characters. Who wants that woke shit, right?

2) There’s no homophobia in the book, which is so unrealistic! Everybody knows that the only way queer people can exist is being oppressed, right? Even in fantasy or scifi world.

3) The worldbuilding. The idea of a world after the end of the world is utterly boring. Also totally unrealistic. I mean, the HOPE that even after everything goes to hell there will still be life and community and love is simply stupid.

4) The author. There’s absolutely no reason why you should buy anything from a first-time indie author. It’s not like your support can change the course of their life or anything.

5) You can read the first two chapters FOR FREE if you sign up for the newsletter. What? Who does that? It almost looks like the author wants you to be sure you like the writing before you pay for the book! Insane, really, stay away please.

#builtonruinsnovel #writers of tumblr #queer writers #queer romance #queer books #queer sci-fi

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spacefruitpress · 5 months

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You wanna free book? Of course you want a free book.

Get your copy of We Come in Peace by Rena Butler, a newly expanded, steamy as hell m/m sci-fi romance where intergalactic relations are ... complicated for free now until Dec 6th on Amazon Kindle.

(This offer's only available in the US, but you can read it for free on KU anywhere)

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Abe wasn’t an overly ambitious guy, but he did want to hold onto his captaincy as long as possible. Lusting after one’s first officer was not the best way to go about that, especially not with an officer as decorated as Kriel. Though he wasn’t much older than Abe, he had a stellar reputation throughout TIOD and a number of medals to match. There were dozens of rumors as to why the mysterious First Lieutenant Mattys Kriel didn’t have his own command, everything from “He clearly needs to be free to run black ops between missions” to “I heard he slept with the commodore’s husband and wife and side piece.” Abe tried very hard not to traffic in rumors, but he knew for a fact there were people aboard the TSS Tarter who thought Kriel should clearly be in command, and Abe was occasionally one of them. He’d benefited greatly from Kriel’s experience, and Mattys had never been anything but respectful of Abe as a captain. But Abe was pretty sure Mattys hated his guts.

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#m/m romance #m/m sci fi #queer sci-fi #aliens made them do it #lgbtq books

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jezebelgoldstone · 1 year

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Queer SCI-FI books that AREN'T based on European culture Ninefox Gambit, A Memory Called Empire, Winter's Orbit, Ocean's Echo

Queer FANTASY books that AREN'T based on European culture The Black Tides of Heaven, The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Empress of Salt and Fortune

#queer books #queer book recs #queer #book recs #sci-fi #fantasy #queer sci-fi #queer fantasy #jez recs #op

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owenlach · 1 year

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Adan Testa is on the run. Somehow he can use the centuries-old tech left behind by Neska’s original colonists. That makes him the target of powerful forces willing to do whatever it takes to learn Adan’s secret for themselves. With Union operatives hot on his heels, Adan and his friends begin a perilous journey along the 500-year-old trail to the only thing that can give Adan the answers he seeks. Don’t miss this thrilling continuation of The Neskan Chronicles coming Jan 2023! Pre-order your copy now: https://amzn.to/3EWvcuC

#Queer Books #Bookblr #Queer YA #Queer Sci-fi #LGBTQ Books

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flameswallower · 1 year

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SELF PROMO POST #2

In this short novel inspired by the Mountain Goats & John Vanderslice concept EP Moon Colony Bloodbath, three indentured, memory-wiped laborers at a crumbling storage facility make some unexpected discoveries about the genetically engineered mutant bodies they tend each day. Sex, drugs, violence, cannibalism, psychic powers, a catgirl (sort of)…Body After Body is the lurid, dreamlike, amoral queer/trans sci-fi trash literature at least four or five people have been waiting for.

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Wow! My first novel, and (from one point of view) the longest fan fiction I've ever written by about 50,000 words! "Sci-fi body horror inspired by a not-super-popular concept EP from 2009, with an entirely trans cast of characters, sections of formally experimental and psychedelic writing, extremely graphic sex scenes every couple of chapters, and a plot largely driven by orgies, fantastical drugs, and cannibalism" is a tough sell, and it's always going to be a tough sell. I knew that when I wrote Body After Body during lockdown in 2020; I figured I would be lucky if anyone who's not a personal friend of mine read it, and if anyone at all particularly liked it. That was okay by me, since I pretty much wrote it entirely for myself.

In the two years since its release, I've been surprised and touched by how many people are, in fact, just as into this hyper-specific shit as I am. It's not a LOT of people, but then, it was never going to be. Body After Body seems to have successfully reached the couple hundred misfit weirdos it is emphatically "for", and that's all I could possibly ask.

Maybe you, reading this, are thinking you might be one of those couple hundred people. If so, I strongly suggest giving the novel a spin! It's free to download on itch.io (although you may pay for it if you can afford to and are confident you'll enjoy it; I'm not gonna say no to $5).

The cover art you see here is by Tom Horstmann.

As per usual, content warnings under the cut, I cover "the big stuff" (eg. things that would earn a movie an R or X rating, like graphic sex and violence, and things that are common sites of trauma or psychological vulnerability, like child abuse and eating disorders) but not every topic or incident in a story that could plausibly upset someone. If you prefer not to have aspects of the novel's plot spoiled before you read it, I suggest skipping these.

Content warnings: Cannibalism, self harm, medical experimentation, organ harvesting, brainwashing, institutionalization/imprisonment (of a sort), dubcon sex and relationships, LOTS and LOTS of graphic sexual content, extreme violence and gore, verbal/physical/emotional abuse, drug and alcohol use, addiction, societal and internalized transphobia, societal and internalized ableism. One major character used to be an underage survival sex worker, and this is touched on or alluded to in a few flashbacks.

#self promo #queer literature #trans books #nonbinary books #queer books #queer sci-fi #queer horror #trans horror #moon colony bloodbath #catgirl #author on tumblr #lol i feel like such a dip with all these tag spams but nobody's gonna promote my stuff FOR me so

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rainbowbrarian · 10 months

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Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown

This book was a tasty little snack. It was just the right amount of scary and tension for me. It’s sort of like Alien, only the lead female doesn’t have to run around in her underwear most of the time. And there wasn’t a cat. I really liked Jack, she was very well realized. I liked getting to see inside her head and feel her feelings with her. She was scared of this very terrifying situation,…

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#black authors #black characters #monsters #queer #queer sci-fi #sci-fi

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queer-as-art · 11 months

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My book The Man Who Failed, a small novella in my All These Worlds series, is free as a promo offer right now. Free copies of this one and the next, which is a BDSM-centric M/M story, are always available to reviewers!

#gay #gay romance #gay sci-fi #queer BIPOC #BIPOC #qtpoc #queer sci-fi #free book #m/m romance #free ARC #queer books #gay male #Indigenous character #gay Muslim character #dystopia

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bodhrancomedy · 4 months

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If you vote, would you mind reblogging?

Just for

#writing #poll #fantasy #sci fi #queer

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midgeonsmidgeon · 8 months

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#star trek #star trek ds9 #st #st ds9 #ds9 #voyager #star trek voyager #deep space nine #word art #sci fi #gay #lgbt #queer #anti capitalism #anti capitalist #*originalposts

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whereserpentswalk · 4 days

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People don't realize how liminal it is to be a time traveler. How you don't ever really feel like you're in the time you are. Even when you're in your own time, everything is off, your coat was something you bought in interwar France, the book you're reading on the train is from a bookstore you had to visit in Victorian London, even your necklace was given to you by a Neolithic shaman, from a culture the rest of the world can never know. You find yourself acting strange even when in the present, much less in the past you have to work in.

You remember meeting a eunuch in 10th century China, and having him be one of the only people smart and observant enough to realize you were from a diffrent time. You could talk honestly with him, though still you couldn't reveal too much about your time. And it was still so strange hearing him talk casually about work and mention plotting assassinations. You're not allowed to but you still visit him sometimes.

You remember that the few times you were allowed to tell someone everything it was tragic. You knew a young woman who lived in Pompeii, who you had gotten close to, a few days before she would inevitably die. On your last day there you looked into her eyes, knowing soon they'd be stone and ash, that the beauty of her hair would be washed away by burning magma. And you hugged her, and told her that you wanted her to be safe, and told her she was wonderful and that you wanted her to be comfortable and happy. And you let her tongue know the joy of 21st century chocolate, and her eyes see the beauty of animation, knowing she deserved to have those joys, knowing it wouldn't matter soon. And you hugged her the last time, and told her she deserved happiness. And when you left without taking her it was like you were killing her yourself.

You want to take home everyone you're attached to. There's a college student you befriended in eighteen fifties Boston. And you can't help but see him try to solve problems you know humanity is centuries away from solving. And you just want to tell him. And it's not just that, the way he talked about the books and plays he likes, his sense of humor. There's so many people you want him to meet.

You feel the same way about a young woman you met on a viking age longship. She tells stories to her fellow warriors and traders, stories that will never fully get written down, stories that she tells so uniquely and so well. She has so many great ideas. You want so dearly to take her to somewhere she can share her stories, or where she can take classes with other writers, where she can be somewhere safe instead of being out at sea. She'll talk about wanting to be able to do something, or meet people, and you know you're so close to being able to take her, but you never can, unless she accidently finds out way too much then you can't.

You remember the longship that you met that young storyteller on. You were there before, two years ago for you, ten years later for the people on it. The young woman who told you stories wasn't there ten years later, you had been told why then but you only realize now, her uncle, who ran the ship, had been one of the first people to convert to Christianity in his nation. He killed her, either for not converting or for sleeping with women, you're not sure, but he killed her, and bragged about it when you met him ten years later.

You talk to the storyteller on the longship, ask her about the myths you're there to ask her about, the myths that she loves to tell. You look into her eyes knowing it's probably less then a year until her uncle takes her life. You ask her if you think that those who die of murder go to Valhalla. She tells you she hopes not, she doesn't see Valhalla as a gift but as a duty, she hopes for herself to go to Hel, where she wouldn't have to fight anymore. You slip and admit you're talking about her, telling her that you hope that's where she goes when she's killed. You hope to yourself you'll be forced to take her to the twenty first century, you're tempted even to make it worse, you want to have ruined her enough to be able to save her.

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winglesswriter · 10 months

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My debut novel Built on Ruins is now available!

Generations after The End, there are two ways of living — Gangs of scavengers roam the Wilds and hunt for relics of lost times, while the re-settlers spend their lives building a new civilization on the ruins of the old. Jan Xiaoli is the leader of Ryningare City — one of the largest and most prosperous settlements this side of the Rift. With the purist movement growing stronger, the scavengers getting more hostile, and the incurable disease spreading, ruling the city feels like sitting on a ticking time bomb.When he meets Shi Saxe, the infamous Vulture, who lives alone in the Wilds, Jan Xiaoli feels as though the storm raging around him is sneaking its way into his heart as well.

#builtonruinsnovel #queer romance #queer book #gay romance #sci-fi romance #queer sci-fi #indie books #writers of tumblr

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spacefruitpress · 5 months

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Pick up The Last Place They'd Look, on sale for $0.99 until December 9th!

Previously published in our anthology, Binary Stars, The Last Place They'd Look by Catherine Fletcher is a steamy, f/nb sci-fi adventure.

Of all the backwater space bars in the galaxy, Kate just had to walk into the one that Tal, courier on a losing streak, happened to be moping in. Find out what happens when the law catches up with Kate and she and Tal have to make a run for it.

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#catherine fletcher #queer sci-fi #queer romance

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deepspacequeer · 2 months

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hey y'all! I finally put together a post with everything I have for sale currently! some new things, some old things. click the photo descriptions for information and price for each collage!

if you're interested in anything, please send me a message through tumblr messenger and not through my inbox. feel free to use my inbox for your anonymous questions and comments though!

btw! the prices here are decided by the materials used, how long I've had it, and the time spent on it. they do not necessarily reflect my commission rates. if you're interested in a commission check out my pinned post!

SOLD: the 6x8 kira collage, the worf 6x8 collage

#star trek art #trek art #queer artist #trans artist #sci fi art #julian bashir #weyoun #garashir #elim garak #kira nerys #worf #jadzia dax #benjamin sisko #geordi la forge

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saint-vagrant · 7 days

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