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reblog with a book that you have read this year and would like to suggest 📚📖📗📑📔🍵☕
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classic scifi novels by men r always like. page 1 here’s a cool scifi idea i had. page 2 i hate women so much it’s unreal
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guys if one more person leaves a tag like this on my post im gonna lose my mind. There Are Science Fiction Authors Who Are Not Misogynistic Men
ok i’ve gotten one too many ‘this is why i don’t read sci-fi’ comments so here’s a rec list for the people convinced all science fiction is bad and misogynistic (with something for everyone, hopefully!):
(also, btw, the book links are to the Storygraph, which includes content warnings for each one!)
- smth funny and lighthearted about a security robot who’d rather watch TV then do its job? all systems red by martha wells (first novella in the The Murderbot Diaries series, 6 books, ongoing)
- a complex, intricate political space opera following a warship AI who’s lost (almost) everything? ancillary justice by ann leckie (first in the Imperial Radch trilogy) (fun fact! bc of space linguistics reasons, all characters in this series are referred to with she/her pronouns, making gender a non-factor - it’s really cool!)
- a dark story about travelling between parallel universes and a woman who is dead in almost every single one? the space between worlds by micaiah johnson (standalone) (SO good, i don’t get to recommend it often enough!!!)
- a story about grief and letting go, and a unique take on alien invasion? the seep by chana porter (standalone novella)
- hey, how abt some dystopian YA, for old times sake? specifically, one with sapphics and sick mechas? try gearbreakers by zoe hana mikuta (first in duology)
- or, if you’d prefer something a bit less angsty, YA about a ragtag group of teens and a space heist? the disasters by m. k. england (standalone)
- alternate history steampunk that blurs the line btwn science fiction and fantasy? the black god’s drums by p. djeli clark (standalone, novella)
- a dark gone girl-esque thriller about clones? the echo wife by sarah gailey (standalone)
- poetic sapphic romance and time travel? this is how you lose the time war by max gladstone and amal el-mohtar (standalone)
- a hopeful utopian future and a human-robot friendship? a psalm for the wild-built by becky chambers (novella, first out of two) (this author’s got a whole bunch of hopepunk sci-fi novels in general, if that’s smth you’re looking for!)
- africanfuturism, coming-of-age, and cool jellyfish aliens? binti by nnedi okorafor (novella, first in trilogy)
- spicy lesbian cyborgs? and shall machines surrender my benjanun sriduangkaew (novella, first in the Machine Mandate series, 6 books)
- cosmic horror with an autistic scientist, cyborg angels and AI gods? the outside by ada hoffmann (first in trilogy, 2 books are out)
- also, if you’re a fan of Janelle Monáe, may i draw your attention to the fact that they’ve recently come out with a Dirty Computer short story collection, each story co-written with a diff writer?
this list is long enough, but have some more authors (who are not cis men) also worth checking out: rivers solomon, yoon ha lee, charlie jane anders, aliette de bodard, xiran jay zhao, mary robinette kowal, corinne duyvis
and finally, not all older/classic scifi is written by crusty old white guys who hate women!!! some iconic authors i’d particularly recommend looking into are ursula k. le guin, octavia e. butler, samuel r. delany and vonda n. mcintyre 🥰
Also!
- The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon
- Teixcalaan Duology by Arkady Martine
- Broken Earth series by N.K. Jemisin
- Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles
- Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
- Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brunyah
- One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
- The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North
- The End of the Day by Claire North
Also!
- Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
- Cyber Mage by Saad Z. Hossain
- How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
- The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton
- Severance by Ling Ma
- Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis
- The Peripheral by William Gibson
- Finna by Nino Cipri
- The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
- Point B by Drew Magary
- The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
- Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore
- Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller
- An Absolutely Remarkable Thing and A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green
- Noor by Nnedi Okorafor
- The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir
Another rec: Frontier by Grace Curtis. A standalone sci-fi novel with a lesbian MC and an incredibly unique and fun narration style!
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And now, back again after 18 years, the new adventures of Galaxy Quest!
love recommending wolf 359 to people to watch them descend into awe and despair the further they get into the podcast
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The Boy and the Heron (君たちはどう生きるか)
— 2023, dir. Hayao Miyazaki
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i just bawled my eyes out over this fucking book. girl wtf was that. GIRL.
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They actually make physical media for a much larger percentage of movies than they ever did in the past. Often with a lot more care than any small release was treated in the early dvd days. Its just if you only watch streaming stuff or the big new recent box office hits you won't see that. It is so ridiculously easy to get physical media for movies that even 5 years ago you couldn't even find. Like yes Netflix is a stingy bastard but so many things are available on disc WITH special features than ever before
And here is where you can get them! (mostly American)
And specific labels:
- Kino Lorber
- Criterion
- Arrow Films (UK based)
- Shout Factory
- Eureka (UK based)
- Vinegar Syndrome
- Synapse
- Warner Archive
- Indicator/Powerhouse (UK based)
- Severin
- Second Sight (UK based)
- Umbrella (Australia based)
And many of these have sales several times a year so if you're patient you don't need to buy full price for any of it.
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"You need to get out of Georgia, Merab. You got no future here. Do you understand?" And Then We Danced (2019), dir. Levan Akin
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different language editions of All Systems Red
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FULL SEASON TRAILER: Second Star to the Left
A queer sci-fi podcast about loneliness, wonder, and connection in space.
Written by E. Jade Lomax (ink-splotch/dirgewithoutmusic) and Aysha Farah / Directed and Edited by Rachel Kellum
Starring Ishani Kanetkar and Jorin Baas
Our ten episode show premieres February 20th!
Listen to our FULL trailer here:
Trailer transcript below cut:
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🍉 Queer Palestinian Books for Pride Month 🏳️🌈
🍉 Want to add a bit more diversity to your TBR? Consider reading one of these queer books by Palestinian authors for Pride Month!
🏳️🌈 Fiction 🍉 The Skin and Its Girl - Sarah Cypher 🍉 You Exist Too Much - Zaina Arafat 🍉 Belladonna - Anbara Salam 🍉 A Map of Home - Randa Jarrar 🍉 Muneera and the Moon - 🍉 Guapa - Saleem Haddad 🍉 The Ordeal of Being Known - Malia Rose 🍉 The Philistine - Leila Marshy 🍉 Hazardous Spirits - Anbara Salam 🍉 From Whole Cloth - Sonia Sulaiman
🏳️🌈 Graphic Novels 🍉 Mis(h)adra - Iasmin Omar Ata 🍉 Where Black Stars Rise - Nadia Shammas & Marie Enger 🍉 Confetti Realms - Nadia Shammas 🍉 Nayra and the Djinn - Iasmin Omar Ata 🍉 My Mama's Magic - Amina Awad 🍉 Squire - Nadia Shammas & Sara Alfageeh
🏳️🌈 Non-Fiction/Memoirs 🍉 Are You This? Or Are You This? - Madian Al Jazerah 🍉 Love is an Ex-Country - Randa Jarrar 🍉 This Arab is Queer - (ed) Elias Jahshan 🍉 Decolonial Queering in Palestine - Walaa Alqaisiya 🍉 Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique - Sa'ed Atshan 🍉 Between Banat - Mejdulene Bernard Shomali
🏳️🌈 Poetry 🍉 To All the Yellow Flowers - Raya Tuffaha 🍉 The Specimen's Apology - George Abraham & Leila Abdelrazaq 🍉 Birthright - George Abraham 🍉 The Twenty-Ninth Year - Hala Alyan 🍉 Blood Orange - Yaffa AS 🍉 Who is Owed Springtime - Rasha Abdulhadi 🍉 Shell Houses - Rasha Abdulhadi 🍉 Halal If You Hear Me - (ed) Fatimah Asghar & Safia Elhillo
🍉 None of us are free until all of us are free. 🏳️🌈
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Saint Levant - Deira feat. MC Abdul (Mattias Russo-Larsson, Palestine, 2024)
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Thai editions of All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, and Exit Strategy
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"We had been looking for success in record deals and stadium shows, but I guess we already had it, because we had each other. And because, We Are Lady Parts."
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We had been looking for success in record deals and stadium shows, but I guess we already had it, because we had each other. WE ARE LADY PARTS S2 (2024) directed by Nida Manzoor
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@zoethebitch, Nahas is one of the artists that appears in 2.06 and makes Saira teary-eyed.
They also featured this Afghan songwriter,
Elaha Soroor, further recontextualizing the "I won't mention the w—" scene in the previous episode.
Soroor was one of the first female artists to publicly perform after the fall of Taliban (2001).
A forthright advocate for women's emancipation, she fled the country when her life was in danger.
On the show, we hear her singing a jazzy rendition of "Jama Narenji," a folk song of separation from Herat. The orange color of the title (and video clip) is a symbol of revolution and resistance.
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different language editions of All Systems Red