Recs if you like The Outside...
break glass in case of autism diagnosis
a collection of autistic coded characters in fiction [ recommendations welcome! ]
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Autism Rep by Autistic Authors | Adult Books
Adult books written by autistic authors that include autistic characters, usually as the protagonists of the story. You know they'll get the representation right!
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Speculative Women in STEM
Scifi/Fantasy/Speculative fiction featuring women in STEM* careers (*the M can stand for magic if the worldbuilding presents magic like a STEM field)
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Mental Health and Neurodiversity in Adult SFF
Sci fi, fantasy, and science fantasy books featuring protagonists who are dealing with mental health issues, and/or are neurodiverse in some way - maybe on the autism spectrum, or having ADHD, schizophrenia, OCD, synesthesia, bipolar disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, etc. Suggestions very welcome!
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Queer Science Fiction
this is my favorite niche. all of my favorite books are this. if you like gays and sci fi you might find some new favorites too (constantly updating as I find more btw)
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Sapphic Science Fiction
Books I saved from my TikTok feed that were labelled as Science Fiction!
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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.
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But you don’t look autistic
Middle grade, YA and Adult fictional books with canon autistic main characters
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Autistic-Coded Sapphic Reads
Sapphic books (of all genres) with autistic or autistic-coded characters.
Feel free to comment any that aren’t on the list. 🧡🤍🩷
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queer books with autism rep!!!
queer fiction books with prominent autistic characters!!!! (all cannon, in text, or confirmed by author)
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autistic rep
canon and coded autistic characters
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Incredible Sci Fi You've Probably Never Heard Of
Do you feel like you've read everything there is to read? Or get annoyed that the same books are on all the rec lists? Well, here are some more obscure masterpieces!
Some of the covers are terrible - especially among the older or self-pubbed books; there's a few YA in here; and some that are science fantasy rather than 'pure' sci fi. But trust me: they're all EXCELLENT. (And if you already love a bunch of these, let's be friends!)
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Imaginative Worlds
These are books I've read that have settings that feel wild and beautiful and wholly original.
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Queer Space Opera
Sci-fi & queer. And with spaceships, too!
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Autistic Book Party-Books
Speculative fiction books with autistic characters, or by openly autistic identifying authors, as put together by Ada Hoffmann from 2011 to 2023 - plus Hoffmann herself, who's also autistic. For books I couldn't find, see comments! If you can add books to GR to add them here, you're welcome to do so (and tell me so I add them to this list)!
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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
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Relationships With AI (not all romantic)
Books focused on human/AI relationships whether that be romantic, parental, friendly, or otherwise
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2019 Queer Adult Sci-Fi & Fantasy
All the queer SFF that was trad published in 2019, according to the list made by K.A. Doore [ https://kadoore.com/2019/11/20/2019-queer-adult-sci-fi-fantasy-gift-guide/ ]
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sapphic sci-fi
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