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Themes labels used: identity, conformity, conversion therapy, queer repression, self-acceptance, resistance, hope, trauma, gaslighting, gender roles, sexuality, state violence, surveillance, climate disaster, white supremacy, racism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, belonging, choice, community, indoctrination, assimililation, truth vs lies

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The Once and Future Me

Melissa Pace · 2025

An amnesiac woman in a 1950s psychiatric hospital must decide if she’s mentally ill—or a time traveler sent to save humanity.

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Themes labels: identity · memory · sanity · madness · gaslighting · patriarchy · misogyny · female autonomy · women's oppression · medical abuse · institutional abuse · power and control · agency · truth and illusion · trauma · survival · feminism · survivors guilt · ableism · pandemic fear · public health · fate · selfhood

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Upright Women Wanted

Sarah Gailey · 2020 · Sand in the Gears

A runaway queer teen stows away with covert librarian spies in a dystopian Wild West and discovers her place in the fight.

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Themes labels: queer identity · self-acceptance · internalized homophobia · resistance · fascism · censorship · patriarchy · community · belonging · solidarity · marginality · freedom · hope · survival · identity policing · propaganda · otherness · coming out · gender norms · political oppression

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A Circle of Stars

Craig Montgomery · 2023 · The Stardust Duology

A queer teen is abducted to a lunar city where astrology fuels magic, politics, and a dangerous chosen-one role.

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Themes labels: belonging · identity · self-acceptance · queer acceptance · oppression · privilege · classism · segregation · rebellion · political corruption · social injustice · choice · home · trauma · religious trauma · power structures · community · acceptance · truth · self-discovery

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Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder – A Young Adult Sci Fi Anthology of LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction

Saundra Mitchell · 2022 · Queer Anthologies

Seventeen queer YA sci-fi stories imagine future worlds of love, struggle, survival, and identity across the galaxy.

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Themes labels: identity · gender affirmation · queer futures · representation · prejudice · coming out · transition · dysphoria · classism · racism · homophobia · transphobia · climate crisis · grief · closure · hope · love · acceptance · survival · community · future of queer youth · bigotry in institutions · government control · choice · selfhood

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A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers

Victor LaValle, Charlie Jane Anders, A. Merc Rustad, Lizz Huerta, Maria Dahvana Headley, Malka Ann Older, Sam J. Miller, Tananarive Due, Ashok K. Banker, Omar El Akkad, Daniel José Older, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Justina Ireland, Violet Allen, Gabby Rivera, Tobias S. Buckell, Hugh Howey, Jamie Ford, G. Willow Wilson, N.K. Jemisin, Charles Yu, Kai Cheng Thom, Daniel H. Wilson, Catherynne M. Valente, Seanan McGuire, Alice Sola Kim · 2019

A diverse anthology imagines near-future Americas shaped by resistance, oppression, and hard-won hope.

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Themes labels: resistance · oppression · marginalization · representation · freedom · justice · equity · love · hope · fear · surveillance · climate change · racism · xenophobia · sexism · homophobia · queer erasure · government control · corporate power · migration · body autonomy · reproductive rights · slavery · community building · empathy · revolution · identity · history and mythology