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scholar-of-yemdresh · 4 months

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Dear God it's pure agony being a fan of media that has a (near) nonexistent fandom😢. Like the tags are empty no fanart, no analysis, no memes I'm lucky if I see a gifset edit...Hell indescribable.

Please people I'm dying here, I'm writhing and crying. So like peep those tags pick up any that interest you and join me so their fandoms aren't empty and Inactive 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

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abookisafriend · 7 months

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august kitko and the mechas from space, by alex white: three and three quarters mobile suits

i probably wouldn't have bought this novel unprompted, but my local bookstore clerk gave me a free scratch-and-dent copy, so i got to read something outside my usual sphere. i didn't know that mecha space opera was a novel genre -- i thought the visual domain of anime and film had a lock on mecha stories -- but white shows off what the graphics card of the imagination can do in this combat-heavy smackdown novel. what sets the novel apart is the queer characters -- written by a nonbinary author -- and the surprisingly soft and thoughtful way that the novel deals with trauma and intimacy. body horror/invasion is a thing.

i have a hard time ranking this book when it is mostly a fun romp through the magical land of violence, but simultaneously a subtle exploration of queer love and intimacy. it's in that space between pulp and top-shelf gems. so,

three and three quarters mobile suits

#august kitko and the mechas from space #august kitko #starmetal symphony #alex white #science fiction #book review #book reviews #review #reviews #queer lit #scifi #ai #a.i.#mechas #mechas from space

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oddblonde21 · 1 year

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Read a book experiencing a category 7 autism event and there's NO Fandom for it

#please please someone talk to me about the starmetal symphony

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lgbtqreads · 1 year

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Fave Five: Queer Adult Space Opera Series, Part I

The Farian War by K.B. Wagers Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell The Salvagers and The Starmetal Symphony by Alex White The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis Teixcalaan by Arkady Martine

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#Alex White #Arkady Martine #K.B. Wagers #Linden A. Lewis #Sci-Fi #Space Opera #Teixcalaan #The First Sister #The Salvagers

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goldenageofwireless · 1 month

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when is ardent violet and the infinite eye gonna come out ........ starmetal symphony pls i need u...........

#rahhhh #please. my emotional support book #🎸

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maplehazelnut · 1 year

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I declare it the Giant Robot Spring!! This is going to be the theme I try to incorporate in the stories I read/watch for the next couple months and I'm! So! Excited!!!

We started watching the Witch of Mercury and I found the first book in the Starmetal Symphony series at my library that I'm gonna start soon.

AND I just learned today that pacific rim has an animated show on Netflix??? Like a recent one??!! How the HELL did I not notice that?? So it looks like I will be very busy with the Giant Robots this season.

#wink wonk cackle #i wont be surprised if i figure out how to embroider a giant robot

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abookisafriend · 8 months

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august kitko and the mechas from space, by alex white: three and three quarters mobile suits

i promised i would review this next and it's already time for a friday multi-media review, so

i probably wouldn't have bought this novel unprompted, but my local bookstore clerk gave me a free scratch-and-dent copy, so i got to read something outside my usual sphere. i didn't know that mecha space opera was a novel genre -- i thought the visual domain of anime and film had a lock on mecha stories -- but white shows off what the graphics card of the imagination can do in this combat-heavy smackdown novel. what sets the novel apart is the queer characters -- written by a nonbinary author -- and the surprisingly soft and thoughtful way that the novel deals with trauma and intimacy. body horror/invasion is a thing.

i have a hard time ranking this book when it is mostly a fun romp through the magical land of violence, but simultaneously a subtle exploration of queer love and intimacy. it's in that space between pulp and top-shelf gems. so,

three and three quarters mobile suits

#august kitko and the mechas from space #starmetal symphony #alex white #science fiction #book review #book reviews #review #reviews #queer lit #scifi #ai #a.i.#artificial intelligence #mechas #mechas from space

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scholar-of-yemdresh · 6 days

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One of the things I dislike the most in far future science fiction is when the author cites artists, figures and events from our modern times or older.

It takes me out and suspends my disbelief because how you be telling me that in hundreds, thousands, TENS OF THOUSANDS of years into the future NOTHING happened? There were no great musicians, painters, poets, politicians writers etc that came up and would become cultural touch stones? That bitches are still glazing Caesar in the year 15,000 AD? Come on now!

And to be fair there is a cornel of realism to that, even now we talk about art & events that happened centuries ago. And even millennia ago with the likes of Aristotle...but are we talking about stuff from 10,000 BC?? The neolithic? Okay yes we don't have proper records of that time but the ice age to now is the same measure of time as from now to the time some of these far future sci-fi novels. Outside of specific niche fields of study ain't nobody talking about Gr'og the cave painter.

It's an issue I'm having with the Sun Eater books, and I guess that's the unfortunate rub of Dune's heavy inspiration(just bc Frank Herbert got away with it in the 60s when the genre was newish and the standards lower doesn't mean you can copy it into the 21st Century). It's 20k years in the future why are you talking about Plato and the like?. Why isn't Hadrian quoting the poetry of his time period? Why isn't he talking about the great generals of 17,000AD?

So it was extremely refreshing to read August Kitko and the mechas from space, and the characters talked about invented music & artists of their time period. Or the older art they referenced would be from 3 centuries ago... which would still be 300 years into our future!. It adds texture and history to world, culture does not stagnate for 600 years it grows and changes.

I'm not saying never reference modern things/our classics but don't ONLY do that make up things for the future if you can come up with gene spliced slug buses you can make up a famous poet that'll be popular in 19,000AD.

#science fiction #sci fi #books #booklr #adult scifi #sun eater #christopher ruocchio #empire of silence #august kitko and the mechas from space #the starmetal symphony #alex white #Lore from yem'dresh #thoughts on things

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scholar-of-yemdresh · 2 months

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This Post.

I'm finally doing it! A list of Adult (20s+) Nonbinary/Genderqueer/Transneutral and Trans men rep in SFF books(no romantasy). This will only be limited to main or major characters.

I've not read everything on this list, so some information could be inaccurate or missing e.g I might not know that a character is actually a POC or 40s+. I will also advise to check content warnings because some of the books listed here can get pretty gnarly.

Will occasional be updated

Keys: 🏳️‍⚧️=Trans Author,✊🏾= Author of Colour,🌈=POC,🧓🏾=40s+, ♂️= Trans man , ⚧️= Nonbinary,🎨=Comic

Claude from The Chatelaine by Kat Heartfield ♂️

Tarquin Mercator from The Devoured Worlds by Megan E. o'keefe ♂️

Yari from Master of Poisons by Andrea Hairston ⚧️🧓🏾🌈✊🏾

Sol Katz from Dead Collections by Issac Fellman 🏳️‍⚧️♂️🧓🏾

Rosie from Persephone Station by Stina Leicht ⚧️🧓🏾

Rafe from Viscera by Gabrielle Squailia🏳️‍⚧️♂️

John Wyndham from The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall 🏳️‍⚧️♂️

Casey Ravel from the Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings ♂️🌈✊🏾

Ardent Violet from The Starmetal Symphony by Alex White🏳️‍⚧️⚧️

Gyen Jebi from Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee ⚧️🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾🌈

Shock Pao from Shock Pao by Ren Warom ♂️

Firuz-e Jafari(+ others) from the Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia 🌈✊🏾🏳️‍⚧️⚧️

Iktan from Between Earth and Sky by Rebecca Roanhorse ⚧️🌈✊🏾

Chih from the Singing Hills Cycle by Nghi Vo ⚧️✊🏾🌈

Brennus from Wolf Among the Wild Hunt by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor ⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Dex from Monk & Robot by Becky Chambers 🌈(?)⚧️

Anima from In The Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu ⚧️🌈✊🏾🏳️‍⚧️

Eolo from The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie ♂️

Ridley from No Gods,No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull 🌈✊🏾♂️

Enae & Qven from Translation State by Ann Leckie⚧️🌈🧓🏾

Penfield R. Henderson, Aiden Chase, Blithe + others from Future Feeling by Joss Lake 🏳️‍⚧️♂️

Ilan from The Faithful Dark by Cate Baumer♂️

Various from The Tensorate by Neon Yang 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾🌈⚧️♂️

Alex Easton from What Moves the Dead by T.Kingfisher⚧️

Edie from Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🌈✊🏾

Nameless Man from The Four Profound Weaves by R.B. Lemberg🌈🏳️‍⚧️♂️

Arén from A Promise Broken by S.L. Dove Cooper♂️

Erígra Lilún from The Unbalancing by R.B. Lemberg 🏳️‍⚧️⚧️

Claire|Claude from Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault ⚧️

Dianthus from The Fate of by J.E. Lynn ⚧️

Asa from The Forgotten Lyric by Carolina Cruz⚧️🌈

Sal Hernandez from It Took Luke by Mark Bouchard & Bayleigh Underwood 🎨⚧️🌈🏳️‍⚧️

MCs from Time Will Devour His Children by Otava Heikkila🎨🏳️‍⚧️♂️🧓🏾🌈

Jonah from Dominion of Blades by Matt Dinniman♂️

Tet Sang from The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho♂️or⚧️🌈✊🏾

Marcus from Lesser Known Monsters by Rory Michaelson♂️🌈

Scorn from Emergent Properties⚧️

Misery Nomaki from The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang✊🏾🏳️‍⚧️🌈⚧️

Taigan from The Worldbreaker Saga by Kameron Hurley⚧️🌈

Leiander from The Stones Stay Silent by Danny Ride♂️🏳️‍⚧️

The Plauge Doctor from The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw⚧️🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾

Aleph Null from Test by Christopher Sebela & Jen Hickman🎨⚧️

Joel Lodowick from My Heart Is Human by Reese Hogan🏳️‍⚧️♂️

Jules from Finna by Nino Cipri 🌈⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Dax from Shatter Minds by L.R Lam🌈♂️

Scout from The Last Gifts of the Universe by Riley August⚧️

#books #adult fantasy #adult science fiction #trans #trans men #nonbinary #transmasc #transmaculine #transneutral #trans men of color #nonbinary poc #trans representation #queer representation #adult fiction #adult books #booklr #book recs #Lgb #lgbtq

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