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The Nebulas are in. Best Novella: The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar's
vengeance-based fairy tale retelling the murder ballad "The Two Sisters." Magic that runs on grammar; a nonbinary love interest. If This Is How You Lose the Time War rearranged your insides, here is more.
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5. There's also a directory of queer-owned bookshops around the world that stock speculative fiction. Independent bookshops are one of the better arguments for human civilisation, and queer-owned ones doubly so. Buy your books there first, if you can.
1. This account is new, follows more people than follow it back, and would like to introduce itself properly. queerspeculativefiction.org is a free monthly catalogue of new queer speculative fiction, researched by hand, with the representation detail publishers increasingly leave off the cover. 🧵
2. Why it exists: queer books are under coordinated attack, and a meaningful number of books with queer leads are now marketed without any mention of it. The blurb won't tell you. Sometimes the only way to know is an ARC review from a reader who recognised themselves. So I go looking, for every book
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8. This project is built to outlast the moment the marketing departments forget the word "queer" again come July. Spot an error, know a release I missed, own a bookshop that belongs in the directory? I want to hear from you: queerspeculativefiction.org
6. Two newer pages: a guide to reading queer books through libraries, free and without obstacles (queerspeculativefiction.org/commons), and the other independent queer bookish publications worth your inbox (queerspeculativefiction.org/good-company). Good company is rather the point.
3. Each dispatch lands on the last day of the month with the next month's releases: title, date, format, genre, and what the representation actually is. Not "LGBTQ themes," but "bisexual protagonist, sapphic main romance, transmasc love interest." June's edition had 54 books.
7. What's coming: years of hand-verified representation data deserve a real search. A free database where you can find every transmasc protagonist in secondary-world fantasy, or every queer horror novel drawing on South Asian mythology. Built slowly, to last.
A monthly catalogue of new queer speculative fiction — with the representation detail publishers increasingly leave off the cover. Researched by hand. The first dispatch, June's releases, is out now. Free, and it stays free.
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Check out The River Has Roots - <p><b>Follow the river Liss to the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, and meet two sisters who cannot be separated, even in death.</b><br><br><b>The…
Dispatched 31 May 2026 · 54 new releases for June
It is June, so the marketing departments have briefly remembered the word "queer." Good of them. This catalogue will still be here in July.
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