5 Queer Sci-Fi Novels to Add to Your TBR
Here at MBC, we love reading Sci-Fi novels! More importantly, we love when there’s a little bit of romance sprinkled in with the characters. Over the years, the stories have shifted from a predominately male audience to a nice mixture of diverse voices.
Here are the five books that have incredible stories with queer relationships at the forefront that we know you’ll love!
Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won’t set her free without a service.
Hester Marley used to have a plan for her life. But when a catastrophic attack left her injured, indebted, and stranded far from home, she was forced to take a dead-end security job with a powerful mining company in the asteroid belt. Now she spends her days investigating petty crimes to help her employer maximize its profits.
She’s surprised to hear from an old friend that he had discovered something shocking about their shared history and the tragedy that neither of them can leave behind. Before Hester can learn more, her friend is violently murdered at a remote asteroid mine. Hester joins the investigation to find the truth, both about her friend’s death and the information he believed he had uncovered.
Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a bed, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and most importantly, some distance from her past. She’s never met anyone remotely like the ship’s diverse crew, including Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot, chatty engineers Kizzy and Jenks who keep the ship running, and Ashby, their noble captain. The team is offered the job of a lifetime; tunnelling wormholes through space to a distant planet. To survive, Rosemary has got to learn how to rely on this assortment of oddballs.
First Sister has no name and no voice. As a priestess of the Sisterhood, she travels the stars alongside the soldiers of earth and Mars — the same ones who own the right to her body and soul. When her former captain abandons her, First Sister’s hopes for freedom are dashed when she is forced to stay on her ship with no friends, no power, and a new captain — Saito Ren — whom she knows nothing about. She is commanded to spy on Captain Ren by the Sisterhood, but soon discovers that working for the war effort is so much harder to do when you’re falling in love.
When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine pilot, it’s to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister’s death. But she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected — she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed. She is then labelled Iron Widow. To tame her unnerving yet valuable mental strength, she is paired up with Li Shimin, the strongest and most controversial male pilot in Huaxia. Zetian will miss no opportunity to figure out exactly why the pilot system works in its misogynist way — and stop more girls from being sacrificed.
Have you read any of the books listed above? If you have, let us know which one is your favourite! If you have any recommendations drop them in the comments below.
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