Queer Science Fiction

Updated April 15, 2026
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Hell's heart
Hall, Alexis J.
Paper Book
AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER! Gideon the Ninth meets Moby-Dick in USA Today bestselling author Alexis Hall's thrilling SF debut, Hell's Heart! They are monsters, legends, gods. They are our...
Down in the sea of angels
Wong, Khan.
Paper Book
An intense and thoughtful time-hopping dystopian fantasy where three individuals, psychically linked through time, fight enslavement, exploitation, and environmental collapse. A great read for fans of Emily St. John Mandel. In 2106, Maida Sun possesses the ability to see the...
In universes : a novel
North, Emet
Paper Book
*Shortlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize in Fiction* NEW YORK TIMES' 10 BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY BOOKS OF THE YEAR An Esquire and Literary Hub Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of the Year  * An...
Murder by memory
Waite, Olivia.
Paper Book
Becky Chambers meets Miss Marple in this sci-fi ode to the cozy mystery, helmed by a formidable no-nonsense auntie of a detective A mind is a terrible thing to erase... Welcome to the HMS Fairweather, Her Majesty's most luxurious...
The Mars house : a novel
Pulley, Natasha
Paper Book
A compulsively readable queer sci-fi novel about a marriage of convenience between a Mars politician and an Earth refugee. Named a Best Book of 2024 by The Washington Post * Amazon * Book Riot * LitHub * Paste Magazine * HuffPost In the wake of an...
Of monsters and mainframes
Truelove, Barbara.
Paper Book
LA Times Bestseller ** 2025 Goodreads Choice Award Finalist ** Spotify Best Book of the Year Spaceships aren't programmed to seek revenge--but for Dracula, Demeter will make an exception. Demeter just wants to do her job: shuttling humans between...
Countess
Palumbo, Suzan
Paper Book
Virika Sameroo lives in colonised space under the Aeerbot Empire, much like her ancestors before her in the British West Indies. After years of working hard to rise through the ranks of the empire's merchant marine, she's finally become first lieutenant on an interstellar cargo vessel. When her...
The space between worlds
Johnson, Micaiah
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE * An outsider who can travel between worlds discovers a secret that threatens the very fabric of the multiverse in this stunning debut, a powerful examination of identity, privilege, and belonging. WINNER OF THE...
This is how you lose the time war
El-Mohtar, Amal
Paper Book
HUGO AWARD WINNER: BEST NOVELLA NEBULA AND LOCUS AWARDS WINNER: BEST NOVELLA ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters--and fall in love...
A memory called empire
Martine, Arkady
Paper Book
Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel A Locus, and Nebula Award nominee for 2019An NPR Favorite Book of 2019 An Esquire Best Sci-Fi Book of All Time A Guardian Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2019 and "Not...
Notes from a regicide
Fellman, Isaac R.
Paper Book
Named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly and Amazon! A Finalist for the Octavia E. Butler Award! A Finalist for the Otherwise Award! "Few capture the grubbiness of intimacy -- and the starchy scent of home -- as well as...
The in-between bookstore
Underhill, Edward.
Paper Book
"What would you tell your teen self if you could go back in time? Underhill's tender, innovative debut is the smartest take on this trope I've ever read. . . and for the record, I read it in a single sitting. A beautiful, thoughtful study of how we find our truest selves, and whom we choose to...
Ocean's Godori
Cho, Elaine U.
Paper Book
An Indie Next Pick; An Amazon Editors' Pick; A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year; Finalist for the Washington State Book Award for Fiction; Finalist for the Silver Falchion Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Award; Shortlisted for the 2024 Endeavour Award. Becky Chambers meets Firefly in this big-hearted...
Archive of unknown universes : a novel
Reyes, Ruben, Jr.
Paper Book
From the critically acclaimed author of There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven, a piercing debut novel following two families in alternative timelines of the Salvadoran civil war--a stunning exploration of the mechanisms of fate, the gravity of the past, and the endurance of love. "Beautiful...
The mimicking of known successes
Older, Malka
Paper Book
"Every once in a while, a book comes along that is both a comfort read and a rousing, fist-pumping adventure, and The Mimicking of Known Successes absolutely is both of those things. An utter triumph."--Charlie Jane Anders A Hugo Award nominee for Best Novella
Sunward
Alexander, William
Paper Book
A 2026 Philip K. Dick Award Finalist A debut science fiction novel by National Book Award-winning writer William Alexander, this story of found family follows a planetary courier training adolescent androids in a solar system grappling with interplanetary conflict after a...
Winter's orbit
Maxwell, Everina
Paper Book
A Sunday Times Bestseller! A 2022 Alex Award Winner! "Sparks fly" (NPR) in Everina Maxwell's gut-wrenching and romantic space opera debut. Prince Kiem, a famously disappointing minor royal and the Emperor's least favorite grandchild, has...

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