Summary The Emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit. Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as necromantic skeletons. The result is a […]

Summary Scorpia Kaiser has always stood in Corvus’s shadow until the day her older brother abandons their family to participate in a profitless war. However, becoming the heir to her mother’s smuggling operation is not an easy transition for the always rebellious, usually reckless, and occasionally drunk pilot of the Fortuna, an aging cargo ship […]

This post is part of my diverse reads feature, where I list all the diverse books I’ve read in a given month. October was another epic month for diverse scifi and I found a few new favorites that I already want to reread.

Welcome to my new feature where I want to share lists of diverse (adult) science fiction books and stories about different topics / based on different factors. This is only the first of many ideas that I have for such lists, so be prepared to see a lot more of these.   Only just having […]

Summary Rosalyn Devar is on the run from her famous family, the bioengineering job she’s come to hate, and her messed-up life. She’s run all the way to outer space, where she’s taken a position as a “space janitor,” cleaning up ill-fated research expeditions. But no matter how far she goes, Rosalyn can’t escape herself. […]

I still see many people on social media thinking there aren’t a lot of diverse books in adult SFF, that there aren’t many/no books by women, and especially by minority voices in SF. That’s not true though. They just don’t fall into your lap, they aren’t as talked about as YA books are. (I’m not […]

Summary Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story. Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math. Roger and Dodger aren’t exactly human, though they don’t […]

Summary: Magpie Lewis started writing in her yellow notebook the day her family self-destructed. That was the night Eryn, Magpie’s sister, skipped town and left her to fend for herself. That was the night of Brandon Phipp’s party. Now, Magpie is called a slut whenever she walks down the hallways of her high school, her […]