The City of Devi by Manil Suri: brilliant, brilliant book about a straight, bi, and gay, and Hindu and Muslim, people cooperating to survive in post-apocalyptic Mumbai.
The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson: YA about a post-apocalyptic matriarchal society in Brazil; lots of robots & queer characters, though the focus is on a m/f relationship in which at least one character is bi and poly
The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo: young Chinese girl in 19th c Malaysia has supernatural adventures in a well-constructed version of the Chinese afterlife
If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan: YA novel about the f/f romance btw two teens in Iran, with a lot about the relationship between the gay, lesbians, and trans communities there (not sf)
The Frangipani Hotel by Violet Kupersmith: really good ghost stories set in Vietnam, with a strong sense of female empowerment
Books by white people that you might also like:
My Real Children by Jo Walton: sf about a woman who flashes btw 2 realities--one where her life is ruled by compulsory heterosexuality, one where she has a happy f/f relationship. I think there's some brief non-con, though.
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray: Hilarious YA sf about a plane of teen beauty contestants who crash on a desert island and discover their inner feminists. The few survivors include girls who are trans, bi, lesbian, black, South Asian, and deaf. No robots, but f/f romance.
Books other people have recommended:
Malinda Lo: I would start with her sf duology Adaptation & Inheritance, but make sure you read them both together, especially if you're looking for f/f romance; it's basically one book split in half for marketing.
I think you would love the Graceling trilogy, which is smart and feminist, but very non-diverse. But I would start with Graceling. Fire, the middle book, definitely has major non-con elements. Bitterblue is a smart & non-explicit look at how people heal from non-con.
I also recommend the TV show Sleepy Hollow!
Ancillary Justice was on last year's Tiptree long list, so here's the rest of it: http://tiptree.org/2013-james-tiptree-award
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The City of Devi by Manil Suri: brilliant, brilliant book about a straight, bi, and gay, and Hindu and Muslim, people cooperating to survive in post-apocalyptic Mumbai.
The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson: YA about a post-apocalyptic matriarchal society in Brazil; lots of robots & queer characters, though the focus is on a m/f relationship in which at least one character is bi and poly
The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo: young Chinese girl in 19th c Malaysia has supernatural adventures in a well-constructed version of the Chinese afterlife
If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan: YA novel about the f/f romance btw two teens in Iran, with a lot about the relationship between the gay, lesbians, and trans communities there (not sf)
The Frangipani Hotel by Violet Kupersmith: really good ghost stories set in Vietnam, with a strong sense of female empowerment
Books by white people that you might also like:
My Real Children by Jo Walton: sf about a woman who flashes btw 2 realities--one where her life is ruled by compulsory heterosexuality, one where she has a happy f/f relationship. I think there's some brief non-con, though.
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray: Hilarious YA sf about a plane of teen beauty contestants who crash on a desert island and discover their inner feminists. The few survivors include girls who are trans, bi, lesbian, black, South Asian, and deaf. No robots, but f/f romance.
Books other people have recommended:
Malinda Lo: I would start with her sf duology Adaptation & Inheritance, but make sure you read them both together, especially if you're looking for f/f romance; it's basically one book split in half for marketing.
I think you would love the Graceling trilogy, which is smart and feminist, but very non-diverse. But I would start with Graceling. Fire, the middle book, definitely has major non-con elements. Bitterblue is a smart & non-explicit look at how people heal from non-con.
I also recommend the TV show Sleepy Hollow!
Ancillary Justice was on last year's Tiptree long list, so here's the rest of it:
http://tiptree.org/2013-james-tiptree-award