And my favourite novellas. Wolves, fungi, shadows, tentacles and medical magic #QueerSFF2023

For more satisfying romances, I absolutely adored The Red Scholar’s Wake with it’s marriage of convenience plot, but these are all great. Sci-fi, fantasy, sci-fi, fantasy, sci-fi. #QueerSFF2023

And the epic sapphic second books, these are all books I was very much looking forward to that did not disappoint and would all also fit in my top five. #QueerSFF2023

Since I never followed up with my favorites, here's the five I enjoyed the most this year: #QueerSFF2023

And here's my round up post with everything from the thread. 49 Queer Female Speculative Fiction Books read in 2023. https://aquila1nz.dreamwidth.org/39765.html Thanks you to those who replied, I think it'll be the last time I try posting it like this. #QueerSFF2023

How To Get A Date With An Evil Queen by Marie Cardno 👑 Sian and Trillin get trapped in a fairytale world that is determined to force them into very particular archetypes. Novella.
https://www.librarything.com/work/29495799/
#QueerSFF2023 #NZFiction #FairytaleReimagining

Saint Death's Daughter by CS Cooney 💀 Lainey is a necromancer with an allergy to violence, raised outside society by an undead servant and her grandfather's ravening ghost. f/nb
https://www.librarything.com/work/26860973/
#QueerSFF2023 #Necromancy

These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs 🪐 Choni survived the harsh Kindom schooling, Jun ran from the slaughter of her family to become a virtuoso hacker, both lives were shaped by murderous Esek and the teasing shadow that was once Six, descendant of a traitor.
https://www.librarything.com/work/29555559/
#QueerSFF2023

Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs 📚 🩸 Joanna is trapped in the family home protecting a secret library of magical books, while her sister Esther, fleeing endlessly, hopes she can stay another season with her girlfriend in Antarctica until she recognises the signs that someone is casting spells.
https://www.librarything.com/work/29117107/
#QueerSFF2023 #MagicBooks

A Fire Born of Exile By Aliette de Bodard 🎏 Mysterious scholar Quỳnh returns to get revenge but then she meets Hoà, an old friend's sister, and Minh, the daughter of her nemeses, and her plans are undone by her compassion. Another Xuya universe story. https://www.librarything.com/work/book/253458925
#QueerSFF2023 #MindShips

She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran 👻 A ghost story about a Vietnamese-American teen spending a summer helping her estranged father renovate a colonial mansion and the local girl who helps her.
https://www.librarything.com/work/28282249/
#QueerSFF2023 #GhostStories

Sweet & Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley 🧙‍♀️ 🤷‍♀️ Two teens, one an exiled witch and one who has always hidden her magic, are forced to work together when a magical plague threatens.
https://www.librarything.com/work/24621678/
#QueerSFF2023 #Witches #YoungAdult

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh 🛰️ Raised on a secret space station as a perfectly engineered soldier intent on vengeance for the destruction of Earth, Kyr is the most committed of her agemates, until she is selected for the nursery instead of a fighting cohort on graduation, and her view of her world starts to unravel.
https://www.librarything.com/work/26911573/
#QueerSFF2023

He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan 🌊 The sequel to She Who Became The Sun is just as queer and just as epic, as Zhu fights multiple factions for the role of Emperor.
https://www.librarything.com/work/29468771/
#QueerSFF2023 #Genderqueer

Sister Maiden Monster by Lucy A. Snyder 🐙 In this pandemic-initiated horror the before is heterosexual fantasy and the after reveals the characters as lesbian, bisexual, asexual and trans even as it drops into eldritch apocalypse. All the trigger warnings.
https://www.librarything.com/work/28589925/
#QueerSFF2023 #Horror

The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa 🍵 After her lover is killed Enitan heads into the heart of the Empire to recue her sibling - and finds herself working with the new Empress.
https://www.librarything.com/work/29343478/
#QueerSFF2023 #LesbianFiction

Misrule by Heather Walter 🧚 This sequel to Malice is set 100 years later, as Alyce rules a Dark Court in the former Briar land while Aurora still sleeps.
https://www.librarything.com/work/27380154/
#QueerSFF2023 #YoungAdult #FairytaleReimagining

The First Bright Thing by J R Dawson 🎪 In an alternate history where magic sparks have altered the mid 20th century, three women take a young sister and brother into their circus.
https://www.librarything.com/work/28727116/
#QueerSFF2023

Emergent Properties by Aimee Ogden 🌑 A major part of groundbreaking AI Scorn's backstory is that zir two mothers have had a very acrimonious separation. Novella.
https://www.librarything.com/work/29097939/
#QueerSFF2023

Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang 🌠 Misery is a reluctant messiah in the space religon they have grown up repudiating.
https://www.librarything.com/work/27624657/
#QueerSFF2023