coolcurrybooks: cooldreammoon:coolcurrybooks:Queer SFF books by POC authors. Edit –
coolcurrybooks: cooldreammoon: coolcurrybooks: Queer SFF books by POC authors. Edit – apparently transphobes, aphobes and the like have found this post. So official note: transphobes and other gate-keeping, exclusionist bigots are NOT WELCOME. This post is Not for You. Are there any books in this genre about asexual protagonists? Or aromantic? @cooldreammoonI made this post back in… 2017 maybe? You can practically carbon date it from the version of the lesbian flag I used. At the time while I knew of ace and aro authors of color with short story deals or upcoming books or in one case a non-queer book published, none fit for this list. Thankfully, some of those upcoming books have now been published and some of the short story authors got book deals!A post I did almost a year ago on queer SFF by authors of color includes Beneath the Citadel by Destiny Soria (YA with an ace MC) and an anthology of queer Native SFF with a story by Darcie Little Badger, an aro ace Lipan Apache woman. The story itself isn’t aro or ace, but her upcoming novel Elatsoe is (watch for it in September 2020!)Since then, there’s also more asexual and aromantic spectrum science fiction and fantasy by authors of color!Alechia Dow’s The Sound of Stars is a post-alien invasion book with an ownvoices demisexual black heroine. Since making both lists, I have learned about Michelle Kan, an aro ace writer whose YA superhero series, No More Heroes, contains many a-spec characters and protagonists. She’s also got a queerplatonic Chinese fairy tale retelling, Come Drink with Me.C.B. Lee’s third book in her Sidekick Squad series focuses on Emma, a girl questioning where she is on both the aro and ace spectrums. Justina Ireland’s sequel to Dread Nation, adds the POV of Katherine, an aro ace black girl. It’s an alternate history zombies, and I loved it to pieces!I know Tara Sim wrote the protagonist of her book Scavenge the Stars as demisexual. I haven’t read the book myself so I can’t say how much that comes through!For ownvoices aro rep, I highly recommend Laura Pohl’s The Last 8, a YA novel focusing on a bi aro Latina girl who is one of the few to survive the alien invasion. There’s probably more indie books I’m missing, but these are a good place to start for aro and ace SFF by authors of color! -- source link