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Queer Speculative Fiction

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A free monthly newsletter of queer speculative fiction book releases. Check out our list of queer-owned bookstores worldwide. 👹 queerspeculativefiction.org

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Queer Speculative Fiction @queerspecfic.bsky.social · 5d ago

50 new queer speculative releases for August. A third Shadow of the Leviathan from Robert Jackson Bennett, T. Kingfisher back in the White Rat, Saara El-Arifi closing out Faebound. Free, monthly, researched by hand. www.queerspeculativefiction.org/dispatch-003...

Dispatch No. 3 · August 2026

August, and publishing has apparently agreed that the eleventh is the only day anyone needs.

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Queer Speculative Fiction @queerspecfic.bsky.social · 7d ago

I just backed this. Neon Hemlock's seventh novella series is close to its goal, and $100 gets you every ebook they publish this year. A year of queer books for roughly nine dollars a book. kickstarter.com/projects/davering/the-neon-hemlock-novella-series-volume-seven

The Neon Hemlock Novella Series | Volume Seven

Novellas and a short story collection from “the apex of queer speculative fiction publishing” —Publishers Weekly

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Queer Speculative Fiction @queerspecfic.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's International Nonbinary Day, and I am, as it happens, nonbinary. So here are five speculative novels that keep nonbinary characters at the heart of the story, some as sole narrator, some as the standout of a wider queer cast. Indie buy links below. A thread. 🧵

Queer Speculative Fiction @queerspecfic.bsky.social · 4w ago

A Pride and Disability Pride bundle: books by queer, disabled, and neurodivergent authors, fantasy and science fiction among them. Pay what you can. The title is "We Exist," which is both the premise and the whole argument. Open until July 11. itch.io/b/3669

We Exist Without Permission by S. E. Thomson and 25 others

We Exist Without Permission: 25 books for $25.00

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Queer Speculative Fiction @queerspecfic.bsky.social · last mo.

It's your last chance to get sixteen queer speculative books at whatever price you like, a cut going to Rainbow Railroad. Menopausal lesbian werewolves, transfeminine cyberpunk, a Wizard of Oz fever dream, from Catherine Lundoff and Melissa Scott. Closes today. storybundle.com/pride

StoryBundle

Pay what you like and get a bundle of awesome ebooks and more!

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Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · last mo.

✨🌟✨IT'S RELEASE MONTH!✨🌟✨ My debut sci-fi romance, The Stars Will Be Our Ocean, officially releases July 14th! If you like... 🏳️‍🌈 Queer space opera 😘 Slow-burn alien/human romance 🫂 Hurt/comfort and found family Then check out my purchasing and review links at lizzieblackwood.carrd.co

Coming July 14th
Her world is dying. His world cast him out. Together, they can change a galaxy.
The Stars Will Be Our Ocean by Lizzie Blackwood

Cover:
Book cover for The Stars Will Be Our Ocean:
The title texts floats among a starry background mingling with nebulous blue gasses with the author name “Lizzie Blackwood” at the bottom. Two figures float together at the center, holding hands as though dancing and smiling at each other. The figure on the left is a sharklike humanoid with a finlike crest off the back of his head wearing complex but form-fitting armor. The figure on the right is a human woman with pale skin and short black hair wearing a back jacket, shirt, pants, and boots.

For fans of Mass Effect, A Memory Called Empire, and The Shape of Water comes a story of love between outcasts caught in the mire of intergalactic politics.

First contact with the vast spacefaring empire of the Reshketh seemed like a miraculous boon for Humanity, trapped on a dying Earth. But in pursuit of an alliance, something has gone terribly wrong, and it’s up to cultural advisor Jenna Kalandra to figure out why before it’s too late. The only problems are that she has no information, no connections, and her own Ambassador hates her just for existing.

Jenna isn’t one to give up easily, but she’ll need the help of a mischievous AI, an inventive Human tech, her no-nonsense ex-girlfriend, and one charmingly unprofessional Reshketh security guard named Tarek to survive her Ambassador’s wrath. Can these misfits find a way to save the alliance (and themselves) before prejudice dooms Humanity? And can Jenna’s friendship with the roguish Reshketh become something deeper when no one knows who to trust?

Queer Speculative Fiction @queerspecfic.bsky.social · last mo.

36 new queer speculative releases for July are up. A Nebula-winning cozy dragon (John Wiswell), August Clarke's follow-up to the Lambda-winning Metal from Heaven, and enough vampires to justify the garlic. Free and monthly. www.queerspeculativefiction.org/dispatch-002...

Dispatch No. 2 · July 2026

Dispatched 30 June 2026 · 36 new releases for July July, and the rainbow bunting is already down. The publishers who rediscovered the word "queer" four weeks ago have moved on to back-to-school. ...

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Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social · 2mo ago

THE TIME HAS COME ✨ Anathema is OPEN to submissions from June 20th—July 20th! We’re looking for speculative works by queer creators of color. Send us your best, your weirdest, & your queerest work! We are proud to be paying a professional SFWA rate. 🎉 So excited to see what you have to offer! 💜

Anathema: Spec from the Margins is now OPEN for submissions from June 20th to July 20th! We’re looking for speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art by queer creators of color! We pay a professional SFWA rate! Check the link in bio for submission guidelines!

Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's Juneteenth! It's Pride Month! It's a great day to buy queer books by Black authors! Share links to your favorites/most anticipated (or your own works, if you're an author) and go pick up something new! I'll start: Right now you can preorder This Mortal Coil by @mythjae.bsky.social:

This mortal Coil paperback — Bonedust Press

This Mortal Coil, a paperback illustrated novella

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Queer Speculative Fiction @queerspecfic.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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.

The River Has Roots

Check out The River Has Roots - 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. The…

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Queer Speculative Fiction @queerspecfic.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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. 🧵

Queer Speculative Fiction

A monthly catalogue of new releases & queer-owned bookshops

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Queer Speculative Fiction @queerspecfic.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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. www.queerspeculativefiction.org/dispatch-001...

Dispatch No. 1 · June 2026

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. Fif...

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