I'm trying very hard this year to read as few white men as possible. In the past this has been difficult as my favourite genre is speculative fiction.
Any recommendations from fantasy, sci-fi, horror, dystopia written by not cus, straight, white men would be great.
Any recommendations from fantasy, sci-fi, horror, dystopia written by not cus, straight, white men would be great.
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Anyway, my point is Lois McMaster Bujold is awesome. Her Vorkosian and Chalion series are her two best works.
Vajra Chandrasekera
Ursula K. Le Guin
Becky Chambers
Yoon Ha Lee
Ann Leckie
Stina Leicht
Tamsyn Muir
Vandana Singh
Martha Wells
by Helen Oyeyemi
A Phoenix First Must Burn
by Patrice Caldwell
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
by Marlon James
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology by Shane Hawk
To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1) by Moniquill Blackgoose
(My favorite of hers is Mishap's Heroes.)
Becky Chambers, P. Djèlí Clark, Vajra Chandrasekera, Lois McMaster Bujold, Connie Willis, and Marie Brennan.
Went with a mix of recent and classic authors. I've run a SFF book club for 15+ years, happy to give as many recs as you like 😀
Arcady Martine’s “A Memory Called Empire” is an excellent space opera
And Becky Chambers’ “A Psalm for the Wild-Built” is amazing
I recommend NK Jemisin, Yoon Ha Lee, Tamsyn Muir, Ursula K LeGuin (if you haven't gotten to her yet), Ann Leckie, Martha Wells, Octavia Butler, Daniel Older, and Stephen Graham Jones to start
T.L. Huchu, Edinburgh Nights series
Ausma Zehanat Khan, Khorasan Archives series
Cherie Dimaline, (start with) The Marrow Thieves
@rati.bsky.social
@mollyostertag.bsky.social
@gingerhaze.bsky.social
@maggietokudahall.bsky.social
https://nebulas.sfwa.org/awards-by-year/
https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/
https://locusmag.com/2024/06/2024-locus-awards-winners/
Nisi Shawl’s Everfair https://www.npr.org/2016/09/07/490101943/everfair-looks-into-steampunks-dark-heart
Chris Moriarty’s Spin Series
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/117224/spin-state-by-chris-moriarty/
Charles Yu
Yoon Ha Lee
Ken Liu
Ted Chiang
Zen Cho
Ta-Nehesi Coates
P Dejeli Clark
Nnedi Okorafor
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Steerswoman series by Rosemary Kirstein
None of those are exactly new authors, but they're all women who made careers of SFF.
on top of those:
* Metal from Heaven by August Clarke
* The Siege of Burning Grass by @premeemohamed.com
* The Wings Upon Her Back by @samtasticbooks.com
* all of the Singing Hills Cycle by @nghivo.bsky.social
C. L. POLK
N. K. JEMISIN
T. KINGFISHER
AANNALEE NEWITZ
PREMEE MOHAMED
SILVIA MORENO-GARCIA
CHARLIE JANE ANDERS
KELLY BARNHILL
XIRAN JAY ZHAO
YANGSZE CHOO
MARTHA WELLS
KATHERINE ADDISON
ANNE MCCAFFREY
KATHERINE ARDEN
ELIZABETH LIM
RAQUEL VASQUEZ GILLILAND
CHERIE PRIEST
AMAL EL-MOHTAR
MADELINE MILLER
AXIE OH
SUNYI DEAN
ERIN MORGENSTERN
SANGU MANDANNA
ELIZABETH MOON
Genevieve Cogman doesnt get recommended enough.
City Boy
Spirit World
Poison Ivy: Thorns
https://a.co/d/4Eh3cf2
Becky Chambers
Discovered it as a rec here recently!
https://bookwyrm.social/list/2753/s/diverse-sff-i-cant-recommend-enough
I think I’ve seen all of my other recommendations already listed. Oh, maybe also The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell.
Also if you do audiobooks she reads her own and a bunch of others books. I’d listen to her read the phone book…
I have read a lot of the people mentioned but a lot I have also never heard of.
Thank you to everyone who has added to the list. My TBR is going to be so long and full of joy!
Also not found yet, to add to the other excellent suggestions:
Susanna Clarke, Juliet E McKenna, Jodi Taylor, Sarah Painter, Frances Hardinge, CT Rwizi.
Murderbot, ofc, by @marthawells.com
Everything by @nkjemisin.bsky.social
Everything by Ursula K. Le Guin, who is dead, and doesn't appear to have found a compatible social networking service in the après-vie
@nnedi.bsky.social never misses.
Cherie Priest
LaTanya McQueen
Arkady Martine
Becky Chambers
Octavia Butler
Patrica McKillip
Diana Wynne Jones
Robin Hobb
The others I have read.
Thank you.
It’s impossible to give useful reccs unless you narrow it down a little.
Trope? Setting? Vibe? Subgenre? Anything???
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao, A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine, A Psalm For the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
Is a favorite and I'm just starting to read the future by her as well.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, not sci fi (at all) but her stuff is great for a short ride or waiting at a bus stop etc. Poetry feels like fantasy to me.
https://bookshop.org/wishlists/3a98e12bd7733f9b2cefe81756f13fbe92b6ffb3
Gail Carriger
Lynn Gala
The Handmaid’s Tale and
The Testaments by
Margret Atwood
Annalee Newitz, Charlie Jane Anders, Rivers Solomon, Ryka Aoki, Micaiah Johnson, Seanan McGuire, Mary Robinette Kowal, Malka Older, Karen Lord, Amal El-Mohtar, Rebecca Roanhorse, Becky Chambers...
I see NK Jemisin is already mentioned, & Le Guin
Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements edited by Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown.