Recs if you like Venus Plus X...
pre-2000s queer sci-fi
older science fiction with lgbtq+ characters and/or authors and books that question gender and sexuality
But WAIT. There’s hope. ✨FICTION✨
Straight from the Solarpunk Manifesto, “We are solarpunks because the only other options are denial or despair.”
What if there’s more to our future? What if we were optimistic?
Below are the fiction books that have made it to O.E. Tearmann’s Open List of Positive and Hopeful Futures
I’ll make another list for the nonfiction and for the anthologies. Feel free to suggest any recs!
fully automated luxury gay space communism
gays in space (or I guess sometimes dealing with space shit on earth), with a tending toward optimistic futures. this list will continue to grow and change over time. this list includes trans folks, queercore, and graphic novels.
if a book is part of a series, I'm only listing the first book just so the list doesn't get overrun.
Anglophone Science Fiction by Decade: The 1960s
Science fiction books in english published between 1960 and 1969 (going by when it was published as a book, generally).
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