Recs if you like Woman on the Edge of Time...
Dig Your Toes into the Dirt: Solarpunk Futures
"We’re solarpunks because the only other options are denial or despair” - Adam Flynn Solarpunk is a genre of sci-fi that has emerged as a response to modern problems: climate change, technofascism, and rising individualism at the expense of community. Solarpunk is inherently optimistic and envisions the future I would want to live in.
books your pretentious friend has heard of
neopronouns books
main or side characters
pre-2000s queer sci-fi
older science fiction with lgbtq+ characters and/or authors and books that question gender and sexuality
girls just want to have rights
Feminine rage, female empowerment, emotional validation. Women supporting women. Men being men. Feminism. Feminist reads.
Imagining utopia that isn't just secretly dystopia
"It is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism"
But these books try anyway
Also see: Star Trek (TNG and DS9) but those aren't books
Magical Revolutionary Women
A woman's place is in the revolution. Featuring magical/gifted women who disobey the powers that be and rage against the machine.
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.
Weird and Unhinged Women 2.0
All sorts of stories about all sorts of women and girls.
This is a genre-agnostic mega-list of weird girl* fiction expanding on an original list by @yarnandbooks (no longer being updated). You can view the original list here: (link) /// As a nonbinary person, I take as broad a view as possible of the "girl" in "weird girl*", hence the asterisk.
Wide open for recommendations!
Soft books to help my seasonal depression
sunny settings, or books that feel sunny and offer escapism from the winter blues in an eclectic blend of genres.
Editing to add: okay some of these books are SAD, my dudes, just like my seasonal affective disorder. But at the same time, they are soft and kind and a safe place for the big sad, if that makes sense?
Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey Books
50 books that involve time travel or parallel universes
Book Riot's Top 100 SF/F Novels by Female Authors
Feminist dystopia
Underrated sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and spec fic
These are books I’ve read and enjoyed that I don’t see talked about much and think are criminally underrated! Most are under 5000 ratings on goodreads, with a few exceptions
Weird Girl Lit Classics
Books from before 2000 that fit the more modern genre/descriptor of "weird girl literature"
💜 yarnandbooks
Feminist Futures: 20th Century Feminist SF Novels
Sci-fi books from the 20th century that remagine gender or critique patriarchal ideas.
Sticking to novels written by non-male writers.
Since these are 20th century texts, they may present dated views.
Want a pre-2000s queer sci fi list? Check out the one made by @crowsolan
Gender fuckery in sci-fi
transhumanism, cyborg antics and general gender fuckery
