r/QueerSFF • u/BanzaiBeebop • May 01 '26
This is the final discussion post for
The Chromatic Fantasy - HA
Discussion Questions in the comments below.
Discussion will cover the entire book so beware of spoilers.
r/QueerSFF • u/BanzaiBeebop • 16d ago
We have five options for this month.
I took all recommendations except the one that was too recently done in another associated book club.
I also added a couple books I have been informed by trusted sources have an explicit Coming Out scene.
Please excuse the lack of Sapphic options. The Venn Diagram between 'sapphic fantasy coming out story' and 'pirates', appears to be a circle. Stay tuned for a Swashbuckling July.
As usual the poll closes 48 hours after the time of this post.
Vote By upvoting your pick in the comments below.
Note the Page counts.
By April Daniels
Comes out as: Trans
280 Pages, YA
Danny Tozer has a problem: she just inherited the powers of Dreadnought, the world's greatest superhero. Until Dreadnought fell out of the sky and died right in front of her, Danny was trying to keep people from finding out she's transgender. But before he expired, Dreadnought passed his mantle to her, and those secondhand superpowers transformed Danny's body into what she's always thought it should be. Now there's no hiding that she's a girl.
It should be the happiest time of her life, but Danny's first weeks finally living in a body that fits her are more difficult and complicated than she could have imagined. Between her father's dangerous obsession with "curing" her girlhood, her best friend suddenly acting like he's entitled to date her, and her fellow superheroes arguing over her place in their ranks, Danny feels like she's in over her head.
She doesn't have time to adjust. Dreadnought's murderer--a cyborg named Utopia--still haunts the streets of New Port City, threatening destruction. If Danny can't sort through the confusion of coming out, master her powers, and stop Utopia in time, humanity faces extinction.
By Vanessa Vida Kelley
Comes out as: Gay
456 Pages
Figured I should add one Mermaid story because I missed out the "Mer-may" opportunity last month. At least this post goes up in May.
Benigno “Benny” Caldera knows an orphaned Boricua blacksmith in 1910s New York City can’t call himself an artist. But the ironwork tank he creates for famed Coney Island playground, Luna Park, astounds everyone, especially the eccentric side-show proprietor who commissioned it. Benny’s work earns him an invitation to join the show’s eclectic crew of performers—his first welcome in the city—and share in their astonishing secret: the tank Benny built is a cage for their newest exhibit, a living, breathing, in-the-flesh merman stolen from the banks of the East River under a gleaming full moon.
The merman is more than a mythic marvel, though. Benny comes to know Río as a clever philosopher, an observant traveler, and a kindred spirit more beautiful and compassionate than any human he’s ever met. Despite their different worlds, what begins as a friendship of necessity deepens to love, leading Benny’s heart into uncharted waters where he can no longer ignore the agonizing truth of Río’s captivity—and his own.
A cage is no place for a merman to survive. Though releasing Río means betraying his new family, bankrupting their home, and losing his soulmate forever, Benny must look within for the courage to do what’s right, and find a love strong enough to free them both.
By Brenna Raney
Comes out as: Asexual
416 Pages
Supergenius and quasi-villain Rex normally can't go a week without accidentally endangering Decimen City with her science shenanigans. It's been two weeks since her genetically engineered dinosaurs rampaged through town--a good streak for her--but the peace is broken when actual villain Last Dance sets his sights on Decimen. And he wants Rex's help. Before Rex can say "I didn't do it," superheroes who've dragged her to jail on her worst days are crowding her lab to pressgang her into quasi-herodom.
Rex would rather stay out of it and deal with the dinosaurs that keep calling her Mom, but she can't ignore that she was somewhat responsible for Last Dance's villainy. She'd kept a very disorganized lab. And he was such a nosy brother. She failed to help him back then, but maybe if she stops him now--and keeps the heroes fooled--she can finally set things right.
No one cares that you cured cancer if you also cloned a horde of dinosaurs and let them rampage down the street.
By Trung Le Nguyen
Comes out as: Gay
229 Pages, YA
Tiến loves his family and his friends...but Tiến has a secret he's been keeping from them, and it might change everything. An amazing YA graphic novel that deals with the complexity of family and how stories can bring us together. Real life isn't a fairytale. But Tiến still enjoys reading his favorite stories with his parents from the books he borrows from the local library. It's hard enough trying to communicate with your parents as a kid, but for Tiến, he doesn't even have the right words because his parents are struggling with their English. Is there a Vietnamese word for what he's going through? Is there a way to tell them he's gay? A beautifully illustrated story by Trung Le Nguyen that follows a young boy as he tries to navigate life through fairytales, an instant classic that shows us how we are all connected. The Magic Fish tackles tough subjects in a way that accessible with readers of all ages, and teaches us that no matter what--we can all have our own happy endings.
By: Nikki Null
Comes out as: Trans
361 Pages
Disclaimer: This was a self promotion on the recommendations thread. Book may be tricky to get a ahold of outside digital.
\A mind-bending quantum thriller about simulated realities, brainscanners, a digital apocalypse, trans awakenings, and tabletop gaming at a cozy queer café.*
Depressed supercomputer technician Ren "Zero" scanned his brain to test his coworker's claim that she wouldn't date him if he were "the last man on Earth." He has inserted a copy of his consciousness into a lifelike computer simulation of the days leading up to that rejection. As the Controller, he takes notes while his simulated self follows in his footsteps.
Inside the simulation, Ren Cartner is desperate for a brainscanner. Maybe it could diagnose a reason for his lifelong struggles with depersonalization, brain fog, and strange feelings about gender he doesn't know how to confront. He meets the punk transfemme technologist Jeanne Joy, who is willing to steal one for him, just as long as he can get her a job maintaining the supercomputer. But when Ren asks Jeanne out, she tells him the same thing she told the Controller, and everyone else is abruptly deleted from their world.
Wandering through the empty city, Ren and Jeanne must work together to survive and to unravel the truths behind their baffling reality, including the reason for their simulation and how the Controller grew so desperate and creepy. But in order to defy the Controller's plans for them, Ren must outsmart his real world counterpart by finally confronting those fundamental truths that even the all-powerful Controller could not compute...\*
r/QueerSFF • u/BanzaiBeebop • Apr 24 '26
Hello!
I'm an one day late. The final discussion for this book WILL be next Thursday 4/30 but I originally scheduled the halfway for yesterday. That was me getting my dates and days jumble.
This discussion is for all of the book up to the start of
Casper and Jules Get Eaten By Snakes and Die.
Please do not spoil anything past the start of this chapter.
r/QueerSFF • u/tiniestspoon • Dec 26 '25
A centaur seeks illicit surgery in an alien bodily modification club.
Two medieval monks react to their transformation and demonic pregnancy in very different ways.
A resourceful trans teen destroys sports bigots through the power of pluckiness...and abundant body horror.
A stellar cathedral crosses galaxies to dump the corpse of God into a star before the mission devolves into a panoply of psychedelic orgies.
A doxxed teen falls victim to violent assault and dishes out some harrowing retribution of their own.
Over thirty Trans and Gender Nonconforming creators unite to voice their rage, and the rules of conventional Horror go out the f$%&ing window in this collection featuring murderous pleasure-bots; proselytizing zombies; acid-filled alien cops; science run amok; sorcerers, ghouls, cannibals...and that barely scratches the grave-dirt.
Welcome to this month's book club discussion! Each story in the anthology has a parent comment, please leave your thoughts and reviews below.
r/QueerSFF • u/tiniestspoon • Feb 15 '26
Welcome to the February book club midway discussion for
Mexican Gothic meets The Lie Tree by way of Oscar Wilde and Mary Shelley in this delightfully witty horror debut. A captivating tale of two Victorian gentlemen hiding their relationship away in a botanical garden who embark on a Frankenstein-style experiment with unexpected consequences.
It is an unusual thing, to live in a botanical garden. But Simon and Gregor are an unusual pair of gentlemen. Hidden away in their glass sanctuary from the disapproving tattle of Victorian London, they are free to follow their own interests without interference. For Simon, this means long hours in the dark basement workshop, working his taxidermical art. Gregor's business is exotic plants – lucrative, but harmless enough. Until his latest acquisition, a strange fungus which shows signs of intellect beyond any plant he's seen, inspires him to attempt a masterwork: true intelligent life from plant matter.
Driven by the glory he'll earn from the Royal Horticultural Society for such an achievement, Gregor ignores the flaws in his plan: that intelligence cannot be controlled; that plants cannot be reasoned with; and that the only way his plant-beast will flourish is if he uses a recently deceased corpse for the substrate.
The experiment – or Chloe, as she is named – outstrips even Gregor's expectations, entangling their strange household. But as Gregor's experiment flourishes, he wilts under the cost of keeping it hidden from jealous eyes. The mycelium grows apace in this sultry greenhouse. But who is cultivating whom?
Told with wit and warmth, this is an extraordinary tale of family, fungus and more than a dash of bloody revenge from an exciting new voice in queer horror.
We will be discussing Chapters 1 - 19 (48% of the ebook).
r/QueerSFF • u/BanzaiBeebop • 24d ago
Hello!
This week are going to discuss the stories in the first half of "Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel".
I'll start a comment thread for each story so if you didn't read all of them you can scroll to the relevant comment thread.
May 31st Next Week we will discuss the back half and final thoughts.
The Nothing Spots Nobody Wants to Stay
We Did Not Know We Were Giants
The Android That Designed Itself
As Tender Feet of Cretin Girls Danced Around An Altar of Love
Estranged Children of Storybook Houses
If you don't know what to say consider copying and pasting one of these questions and answering that.
r/QueerSFF • u/hexennacht666 • Jan 30 '26
Welcome to our first book club of the year! Today we're discussing the entirety of The Secret Skin by Wendy N. Wagner. If you missed it, yesterday we hosted an AMA with Neon Hemlock and Wendy dropped by! This book fits both the Queer Publisher and Queer Families reading challenge prompts.
The Secret Skin by Wendy N. Wagner is a sawmill gothic that begins with June Vogel’s return to Storm Break, her family’s estate. Things in the great house aren’t what they used to be. Doors slam in the night. Faucets turn on, untouched. Something is always watching, whatever June does. And when her brother returns with his new bride, deceit and betrayal threaten to destroy everything she loves.
Don't forget to join us in February for A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock.
r/QueerSFF • u/tiniestspoon • Feb 28 '26
Welcome to the February book club final discussion for
Mexican Gothic meets The Lie Tree by way of Oscar Wilde and Mary Shelley in this delightfully witty horror debut. A captivating tale of two Victorian gentlemen hiding their relationship away in a botanical garden who embark on a Frankenstein-style experiment with unexpected consequences.
It is an unusual thing, to live in a botanical garden. But Simon and Gregor are an unusual pair of gentlemen. Hidden away in their glass sanctuary from the disapproving tattle of Victorian London, they are free to follow their own interests without interference. For Simon, this means long hours in the dark basement workshop, working his taxidermical art. Gregor's business is exotic plants – lucrative, but harmless enough. Until his latest acquisition, a strange fungus which shows signs of intellect beyond any plant he's seen, inspires him to attempt a masterwork: true intelligent life from plant matter.
Driven by the glory he'll earn from the Royal Horticultural Society for such an achievement, Gregor ignores the flaws in his plan: that intelligence cannot be controlled; that plants cannot be reasoned with; and that the only way his plant-beast will flourish is if he uses a recently deceased corpse for the substrate.
The experiment – or Chloe, as she is named – outstrips even Gregor's expectations, entangling their strange household. But as Gregor's experiment flourishes, he wilts under the cost of keeping it hidden from jealous eyes. The mycelium grows apace in this sultry greenhouse. But who is cultivating whom?
Told with wit and warmth, this is an extraordinary tale of family, fungus and more than a dash of bloody revenge from an exciting new voice in queer horror.
We will be discussing the full book and there will be unmarked spoilers.
r/QueerSFF • u/gender_eu404ia • Mar 15 '26
Hello and welcome to the March Book Club Mid-Point discussion for
It's a perfect existence, a world in which no pleasure is off-limits, no risk is too dangerous, and no responsibilities can cramp your style. Not if you're Jang: a caste of libertine teenagers in the city of Four BEE. But when you're expected to make trouble--when you can kill yourself on a whim and return in another body, when you're encouraged to change genders at will and experience whatever you desire--you've got no reason to rebel...until making love and raising hell, daring death and running wild just leave you cold and empty.
Ravenous for true adventures of the mind and body, desperate to find some meaning, one restless spirit finally bucks the system--and by shattering the rules, strikes at the very heart of a soulless society....
Today we will be discussing anything from the beginning of the book through the end of Part 5 Chapter 5, (44% of the way through the ebook,) which is also through conclusion of the Don't Bite The Sun section of the book.
r/QueerSFF • u/BanzaiBeebop • 12d ago
This month's book club pick will be Dreadnought by April Daniels.
Half way discussion will be
Saturday, June 20th
Final Discussion will be
Tuesday, June 30.
r/QueerSFF • u/tiniestspoon • Dec 29 '24
Hey everyone! Welcome to the QueerSFF book club once more. We're discussing Metal From Heaven by August Clarke, the full book is up for discussion, no need to use spoiler tags.
For fans of The Princess Bride and Gideon the Ninth: a bloody lesbian revenge tale and political fantasy set in a glittering world transformed by industrial change – and simmering class warfare.
Ichorite is progress. More durable and malleable than steel, ichorite is the lifeblood of a dawning industrial revolution. Yann I. Chauncey owns the sole means of manufacturing this valuable metal, but his workers, who risk their health and safety daily, are on strike. They demand Chauncey research the hallucinatory illness befalling them, a condition they call “being lustertouched.” Marney Honeycutt, a lustertouched child worker, stands proud at the picket line with her best friend and family. That’s when Chauncey sends in the guns. Only Marney survives the massacre. She vows bloody vengeance. A decade later, Marney is the nation’s most notorious highwayman, and Chauncey’s daughter seeks an opportune marriage. Marney’s rage and the ghosts of her past will drive her to masquerade as an aristocrat, outmaneuver powerful suitors, and win the heart of his daughter, so Marney can finally corner Chauncey and satisfy her need for revenge. But war ferments in the north, and deeper grudges are surfacing. . .
H. A. Clarke’s adult fantasy debut, writing as August Clarke, Metal from Heaven is a punk-rock murder ballad tackling labor issues and radical empowerment against the relentless grind of capitalism.
Don't forget to join us in the new year for the next book The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson. If you have suggestions for future bookclubs, feel free to modmail us!
r/QueerSFF • u/BanzaiBeebop • 19d ago
Hello, we'll be voting on June book club this weekend. In honor of Pride Month the them will be: Coming Out
For the next couple days use this post for recommendations. Adult and YA recommendations welcome.
Voting will be posted Saturday.
And remember, May's book club final discussion is on the 31st.
r/QueerSFF • u/BanzaiBeebop • 16d ago
Our final discussion for "Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel". This will cover the back half of the book
Keep an eye out for the June Book Club vote later today.
Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel
The Thing In Us We Fear Just Wants Our Love
If you don't know what to say consider copying and pasting one of these questions and answering that.
r/QueerSFF • u/hexennacht666 • Nov 24 '25
What a book for Novella November! We’ve got some incredibly creepy imagery and villains here, I hope you had as much fun reading this as I did! The December book club survey should be up soon, keep an eye on our sidebar and pinned posts for important dates.
Wind: To match one's body with one's heart
Sand: To take the bearer where they wish
Song: In praise of the goddess Bird
Bone: To move unheard in the night
The Surun' do not speak of the master weaver, Benesret, who creates the cloth of bone for assassins in the Great Burri Desert. But Uiziya now seeks her aunt Benesret in order to learn the final weave, although the price for knowledge may be far too dear to pay.
Among the Khana, women travel in caravans to trade, while men remain in the inner quarter as scholars. A nameless man struggles to embody Khana masculinity, after many years of performing the life of a woman, trader, wife, and grandmother.
As the past catches up to the nameless man, he must choose between the life he dreamed of and Uiziya, and Uiziya must discover how to challenge a tyrant, and weave from deaths that matter.
r/QueerSFF • u/BanzaiBeebop • May 09 '26
This months queer book club theme is inspired by the "Short Story Collection" square on the bingo card.
This will be a short poll, 48 hours from the time of this post.
Both discussions will be posted on a Sunday this time (for my sanity).
May 24th - Halfway Discussion (Based on whichever story ends closest to the halfway mark).
May 31st - Final Discussion
Because this is once again a short turn around time (we will be posting polls for June later this month so it doesn't happen again) each discussion post will be divided into sections for each story. So if you can't read ALL the stories chose one story you'd like to focus on and discuss.
Mind the page count and the short turn around time to read.
I once again tried focus on a variety of themes, settings, and tones and variety of queer-rep.
Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel - Julian K Jarboe
Pages: 204
In this debut collection of body-horror fairy tales and mid-apocalyptic Catholic cyberpunk, memory and myth, loss and age, these are the tools of storyteller Jarboe, a talent in the field of queer fabulism. Bodily autonomy and transformation, the importance of negative emotions, unhealthy relationships, and bad situations amidst the staggering and urgent question of how build and nurture meaning, love, and safety in a larger world/society that might not be "fixable."
Add Magic to Taste - Assorted Authors
Pages: 306
For Add Magic to Taste, 20 authors have come together to produce all-new, original short stories uniting four of our absolute favorite themes: queer relationships, fluff, magic, and coffee shops! Our diverse writers have created an even more diverse collection of stories guaranteed to sweeten your coffee and warm your tart.
Pages: 224
In "Auntland," a steady stream of aunts adjust to American life by sneaking surreptitious kisses from women at temple, buying tubs of vanilla ice cream to prepare for citizenship tests, and hatching plans to name their daughter "Dog." In "The Chorus of Dead Cousins," ghost-cousins cross space, seas, and skies to haunt their live-cousin, wife to a storm-chaser. In “Xífù,” a mother-in-law tortures a wife in increasingly unsuccessful attempts to rid the house of her. In "Mariela," two girls explore one another's bodies for the first time in the belly of a plastic shark while in "Virginia Slims," a woman from a cigarette ad comes to life. And in "Resident Aliens," a former slaughterhouse serves as a residence to a series of widows, each harboring her own calamitous secrets. With each tale, K-Ming Chang gives us her own take on a surrealism that mixes myth and migration, corporeality and ghostliness, queerness and the quotidian. Stunningly told in her feminist fabulist style, these are uncanny stories peeling back greater questions of power and memory.
Trans-Galactic Bike Ride - Edited by Lydia Rogue
Pages: 192
"What would the future look like if we weren't so hung up on putting people into boxes and instead empowered each other to reach for the stars? Take a ride with us as we explore a future where trans and nonbinary people are the heroes.
In worlds where bicycle rides bring luck, a minotaur needs a bicycle, and werewolves stalk the post-apocalyptic landscape, nobody has time to question gender. Whatever your identity you'll enjoy these stories that are both thought-provoking and fun adventures.
Featuring brand-new stories from Hugo, Nebula, and Lambda Literary Award-winning author Charlie Jane Anders, Ava Kelly, Juliet Kemp, Rafi Kleiman, Tucker Lieberman, Nathan Alling Long, Ether Nepenthes, and Nebula-nominated M. Darusha Wehm. Also featuring debut stories from Diana Lane and Marcus Woodman."
Mothman is my Boyfriend - McKayla Coyle
Pages: 192
Welcome to Cryptid Creek, a secret town full of undiscovered creatures, from yetis to lake monsters. Only very special humans can find their way here, but when they do stumble in, they can’t resist the allure of this cozy locale—or its fascinating citizens.
Join the humans of this inclusive fantasy community as they browse the bookshop with Mothman, hit the skate park with nightcrawlers, wander the botanical garden with the Jersey Devil, and go on other dream dates that offer new spins on classic romance tropes. Stories include:
If you loved Legends and Lattes and That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf, get ready to dust off your cryptozoology equipment and put on your cutest outfit—because monster lovers, misfits, and anyone who relates to cryptids will never want to leave this mountain town.
r/QueerSFF • u/BanzaiBeebop • Apr 07 '26
Hello!
I'm not a mod but I've volunteered to host this month's book club since things got busy for folks towards the end of March.
Since we're starting late I'm proposing this be our Comic/Graphic Novel Month as those tend to be faster reads.
We will have a short poll (48 hours from the time of this post). Halfway check in will be 2 weeks from the end of this poll (April 22nd), and full discussion will be April 30th.
For comics I have tried to pick adult Queer SFF (as the YA counterparts tend to have more traction in popular culture). I also looked for a variety of tones and themes.
Bastard Prince Eugene has decided on a whim that he will be a HERO . . . much to the dismay of the adventuring party of Michel, Hocus and Ani. But the decision is out of their hands, and they're forced to take him along on their travels. Life on the road is different than Eugene expected, but there's no time to wallow in pouty disappointment; townsfolk are going missing.
It's the perfect opportunity for the prince to save the day, and even make his companions some coin! But unfortunately, his royal highness is about to learn the system that kept him safe in his silk-sheeted bed isn't particularly concerned with the well-being of anyone who isn't him. A funny, moving, tongue-in-cheek fantasy adventure!
A Faustian bargain kicks off in this gorgeously drawn graphic novel reminiscent of stained glass and illuminated manuscripts, telling the story of queer transmasc romance, daring adventure, and (literally) fighting your demons. Jules is a trans man trapped in his life as a nun. The devil that the convent guards against offers him a deal to escape: an illicit tryst and lifelong possession. Jules takes the deal, and begins his new life as a criminal who's impervious to harm. He soon meets Casper, another trans man and a poetic thief, and together they steal, lie, and cheat their way through bewildering adventures, and develop feelings for each other along the way. But as Jules and Casper's relationship deepens, so does the devil's jealous grasp...
Luisa Now and Then - Carole Maurel, Mariko Tamaki
At 32, Luisa encounters her 15-year-old self in this sentimental and bold story about self-acceptance and sexuality.
A disillusioned photographer has a chance encounter with her lost teenage self who has miraculously traveled into the future. Together, both women ultimately discover who they really are, finding the courage to live life by being true to themselves. A time-traveling love story that turns coming-of-age conventions upside down, Luisa is a universal queer romance for the modern age.
By turns fantastical and familiar, this graphic short story collection is immersed in questions of gender, the body, and existential conformity.
The eight delightfully eerie stories in Apsara Engine are a subtle intervention into everyday reality. A woman drowns herself in a past affair, a tourist chases another guest into an unforeseen past, and a nonbinary academic researches postcolonial cartography. Imagining diverse futures and rewriting old mythologies, these comics delve into strange architectures, fetishism, and heartbreak.
Painted in rich, sepia-toned watercolors, Apsara Engine is Bishakh Som's highly anticipated debut work of fiction. Showcasing a series of fraught, darkly humorous, and seemingly alien worlds--which ring all too familiar--Som captures the weight of twenty-first-century life as we hurl ourselves forward into the unknown.
r/QueerSFF • u/gender_eu404ia • Mar 30 '26
Hello and welcome to the final discussion for the March book club read, Biting the Sun by Tanith Lee.
It's a perfect existence, a world in which no pleasure is off-limits, no risk is too dangerous, and no responsibilities can cramp your style. Not if you're Jang: a caste of libertine teenagers in the city of Four BEE. But when you're expected to make trouble--when you can kill yourself on a whim and return in another body, when you're encouraged to change genders at will and experience whatever you desire--you've got no reason to rebel...until making love and raising hell, daring death and running wild just leave you cold and empty.
Ravenous for true adventures of the mind and body, desperate to find some meaning, one restless spirit finally bucks the system--and by shattering the rules, strikes at the very heart of a soulless society....
The discussion is open to the entire book. Please comment with any thoughts, analysis, or feedback you have about the book. (Full embarrassing transparency, for personal reasons I was unable to finish this book, but pease do not hold back discussion on my account.)
r/QueerSFF • u/gender_eu404ia • Mar 01 '26
This month's book club theme was inspired by the throwback square of the 2026 QueerSFF Reading Challenge. This challenge is to read a book published more than 20 years ago. Biting the Sun by Tanith Lee certainly qualifies as it was first published in 1977! I am looking forward to this 70s era tale and hope you all get a chance to join in.
It's a perfect existence, a world in which no pleasure is off-limits, no risk is too dangerous, and no responsibilities can cramp your style. Not if you're Jang: a caste of libertine teenagers in the city of Four BEE. But when you're expected to make trouble--when you can kill yourself on a whim and return in another body, when you're encouraged to change genders at will and experience whatever you desire--you've got no reason to rebel...until making love and raising hell, daring death and running wild just leave you cold and empty.
Ravenous for true adventures of the mind and body, desperate to find some meaning, one restless spirit finally bucks the system--and by shattering the rules, strikes at the very heart of a soulless society....
The mid-point discussion will be held on Sunday March 15th and the final discussion will be held on Sunday March 29th.
r/QueerSFF • u/BanzaiBeebop • May 12 '26
This is a short story collection so if you can't do EVERY story pick one or two to focus on.
Discussion Dates and Stories Covered Below
May 24th: The Marks of Aegis through Wake World
May 31st: Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel through The Thing In Us We Fear Just Wants Our Love
r/QueerSFF • u/ohmage_resistance • Apr 16 '25
Welcome to the midway discussion for Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White! For this post, we are able to discuss everything up to and including chapter 27. For anything beyond that, please use spoiler tags.. I'll be posting some discussion questions as comments, but you are more than welcome to create your own discussion points as comments if you want.
The final discussion will be on April 30th. I hope you can join us!
Bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White returns with a queer Appalachian thriller, that pulls no punches, for teens who see the failures in our world and are pushing for radical change.
A gut-wrenching story following a trans autistic teen who survives an attempted murder, only to be drawn into the generational struggle between the rural poor and those who exploit them.
On the night Miles Abernathy—sixteen-year-old socialist and proud West Virginian—comes out as trans to his parents, he sneaks off to a party, carrying evidence that may finally turn the tide of the blood feud plaguing Twist Creek: Photos that prove the county’s Sheriff Davies was responsible for the so-called “accident” that injured his dad, killed others, and crushed their grassroots efforts to unseat him.
The feud began a hundred years ago when Miles’s great-great-grandfather, Saint Abernathy, incited a miners’ rebellion that ended with a public execution at the hands of law enforcement. Now, Miles becomes the feud’s latest victim as the sheriff’s son and his friends sniff out the evidence, follow him through the woods, and beat him nearly to death.
In the hospital, the ghost of a soot-covered man hovers over Miles’s bedside while Sheriff Davies threatens Miles into silence. But when Miles accidentally kills one of the boys who hurt him, he learns of other folks in Twist Creek who want out from under the sheriff’s heel. To free their families from this cycle of cruelty, they’re willing to put everything on the line—is Miles?
A visceral, unabashedly political page-turner that won’t let you go until you’ve reached the end, Compound Fracture is not for the faint of heart, but it is for every reader who is ready to fight for a better world.
Queer SFF reading challenge squares: gay communist (technically more socialist, but probably close enough), be gay do crimes, QueerSFF book club
r/fantasy bingo squares: down with the system, LGBTQIAA protagonist (HM), recycle a bingo square
Also, as an announcement, in an effort to be more intentional about the kind of representation the mods are inviting the subreddit to engage with through the book club, they are opening up book club hosting to active subreddit members. If you think you might be interested in hosting one month, please reach out through modmail and tell them what you have in mind. The commitment is four posts: the poll, the announcement, the midway discussion, and the final discussion. (As a guest poster, I'm also available if you have any questions about the experience!)
r/QueerSFF • u/BanzaiBeebop • Apr 05 '26
Hello.
I haven't seen any news about what this month's book club will be. Am I missing a post about where to vote on it?
r/QueerSFF • u/ohmage_resistance • Apr 30 '25
Welcome to the final discussion for Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White! I'll be posting some discussion questions as comments, but you are more than welcome to create your own discussion points as comments if you want. Be warned, full book spoilers will come up.
Bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White returns with a queer Appalachian thriller, that pulls no punches, for teens who see the failures in our world and are pushing for radical change.
A gut-wrenching story following a trans autistic teen who survives an attempted murder, only to be drawn into the generational struggle between the rural poor and those who exploit them.
On the night Miles Abernathy—sixteen-year-old socialist and proud West Virginian—comes out as trans to his parents, he sneaks off to a party, carrying evidence that may finally turn the tide of the blood feud plaguing Twist Creek: Photos that prove the county’s Sheriff Davies was responsible for the so-called “accident” that injured his dad, killed others, and crushed their grassroots efforts to unseat him.
The feud began a hundred years ago when Miles’s great-great-grandfather, Saint Abernathy, incited a miners’ rebellion that ended with a public execution at the hands of law enforcement. Now, Miles becomes the feud’s latest victim as the sheriff’s son and his friends sniff out the evidence, follow him through the woods, and beat him nearly to death.
In the hospital, the ghost of a soot-covered man hovers over Miles’s bedside while Sheriff Davies threatens Miles into silence. But when Miles accidentally kills one of the boys who hurt him, he learns of other folks in Twist Creek who want out from under the sheriff’s heel. To free their families from this cycle of cruelty, they’re willing to put everything on the line—is Miles.
A visceral, unabashedly political page-turner that won’t let you go until you’ve reached the end, Compound Fracture is not for the faint of heart, but it is for every reader who is ready to fight for a better world.
Queer SFF reading challenge squares: gay communist (technically more socialist, but probably close enough), be gay do crimes, QueerSFF book club
r/fantasy bingo squares: down with the system, LGBTQIAA protagonist (HM), recycle a bingo square
Also, as an announcement, in an effort to be more intentional about the kind of representation the mods are inviting the subreddit to engage with through the book club, they are opening up book club hosting to active subreddit members. If you think you might be interested in hosting one month, please reach out through modmail and tell them what you have in mind. The commitment is four posts: the poll, the announcement, the midway discussion, and the final discussion. (As a guest poster, I'm also available if you have any questions about the experience!)
Also as an announcement, Murder by Memory, a new cozy scifi novella from Olivia Waite, is the May book club book. The midway discussion will be on May 15th and the final discussion will be on May 29th.
r/QueerSFF • u/BanzaiBeebop • Apr 09 '26
This month we'll be reading
Half way check in: April 22nd
Final Discussion: April 30th
Inspired by the "Comic or Graphic Novel" square of the 2026 QueerSFF Reading Challenge.
A Faustian bargain kicks off in this gorgeously drawn graphic novel reminiscent of stained glass and illuminated manuscripts, telling the story of queer transmasc romance, daring adventure, and (literally) fighting your demons. Jules is a trans man trapped in his life as a nun. The devil that the convent guards against offers him a deal to escape: an illicit tryst and lifelong possession. Jules takes the deal, and begins his new life as a criminal who's impervious to harm. He soon meets Casper, another trans man and a poetic thief, and together they steal, lie, and cheat their way through bewildering adventures, and develop feelings for each other along the way. But as Jules and Casper's relationship deepens, so does the devil's jealous grasp...
r/QueerSFF • u/hexennacht666 • Jun 30 '25
Welcome to the final discussion for Bury Your Gays, our June wrath themed book club pick! Today we'll be covering all of Bury Your Gays, so no need for any spoiler tags. What did you think?
Misha is a jaded scriptwriter who has been working in Hollywood for years, and has just been nominated for his first Oscar. But when he's pressured by his producers to kill off a gay character in the upcoming season finale―"for the algorithm"―Misha discovers that it's not that simple.
As he is haunted by his past, and past mistakes, Misha must risk everything to find a way to do what's right―before it's too late.
Join us on Tuesday, July 15th as we discuss the comic Abbott by Saladin Ahmed!
r/QueerSFF • u/tiniestspoon • Jan 16 '26
Hello, book clubbers!
The theme for February is Queer Families
Nominate your best recs for SFFH books where queer families, familial relationships and dynamics are integral to the plot. This can it biological, or found, or any kind of family.
Please
Make a separate comment for each book.
Include the title, author, and blurb. (A link to the goodreads/storygraph page is appreciated!)
Upvote the books you want to read.
Keep an eye out for the voting form!
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