18 Recommendations for National Science Fiction Day!

Today, January 2nd, is National Science Fiction Day. To celebrate, we asked DPP contributors what their favorite queer sci-fi reads are and we ended up with a list 18 awesome books! Recommendations made by Sebastian Marie, Shadaras, Mikki Madison, Sanne, Nina Waters, Shannon, Alex, Dei Walker, and an anonymous contributor.

• An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
• Aether Beyond the Binary Anthology
• A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan series) by Arkady Martine
• Unconquerable Sun (The Sun Chronicles series) by Kate Elliott
• Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace
• The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang
• Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone
• All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries series) by Martha Wells
• A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers series) by Becky Chambers
• The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
• Little Mushroom by Yi Shi Si Zhou
• Project Nought by Chelsey Furedi
• On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
• This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
• Ocean’s Echo (Winter’s Orbit series) by Everina Maxwell
• Seven of Infinities by Aliette de Bodard
• The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence series) by Emma Mieko Candon

What are your favorite queer sci-fi books?

This is the third time we’ve done a rec list for National Sci-Fi Day! You can check out the 2023 list here and the 2024 list here!

You can find these and more queer sci-fi book we love on our Goodreads sci-fi book shelf.

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