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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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Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity

Lee Mandelo · 2025

A queer-and-trans speculative anthology imagines futures of resistance, desire, survival, and uneasy hope.

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Themes labels: queer resistance · trans identity · community · hope and survival · joy and grief · oppression · fascism · governmental repression · surveillance · representation · self-definition · embodiment · transition · sexuality · desire · intimacy · care · mutual aid · future-making · belonging · visibility · loss · religion and queerness · body autonomy · climate collapse · memory

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The Big Lie

Julie Mayhew · 2015

In Nazi-run modern England, a model teen’s loyalty is tested by her rebellious best friend and her own forbidden feelings.

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Themes labels: loyalty · love · belief · propaganda · indoctrination · brainwashing · conformity · rebellion · resistance · freedom · choice · morality · sexuality · coming out · feminism · sexism · oppression · fear · truth · self-preservation · identity · government control · state violence · censorship · abuse of power · exclusion · discrimination · anti-authoritarian

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In Universes

Emet North · 2024

A queer cosmology researcher falls through parallel lives, chasing love, meaning, and the self they might have been.

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Themes labels: queer identity · gender fluidity · sexuality · regret · grief · loss · trauma · healing · hope · belonging · self-acceptance · meaning-making · fate versus choice · agency · responsibility · alternate lives · love · loneliness · mental health · forgiveness · memory · nature versus nurture · bodily autonomy · class · classism · alienation · the past · authenticity

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Trees, Vol. 1: In Shadow

Warren Ellis · 2015 · Trees (Collected Editions)

A global ensemble of lives shifts in the silent shadow of giant alien structures that changed Earth without explaining why.

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Themes labels: alienation · identity · self-discovery · survival · politics · power · freedom · community · acceptance · gender · sexuality · transphobia · homophobia · xenophobia · fascism · war · violence · human nature · social change · class tension · moral ambiguity · normalization of crisis · humanity · mistrust · fear

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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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The First Sister

Linden A. Lewis · 2020 · The First Sister Trilogy

A voiceless priestess and a disgraced soldier get pulled into opposing sides of a solar-system war, with love and betrayal at stake.

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Themes labels: bodily autonomy · identity · voice · loyalty · love · justice · rebellion · oppression · colonialism · racism · classism · war · religion · gender identity · sexuality · trauma · PTSD · mental illness · sexism · rape culture · freedom · selfhood · agency · resistance · morality

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Soft Science

Franny Choi · 2019

A poetry collection uses cyborgs and Turing tests to probe queer Asian American identity, language, and survival.

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Themes labels: identity · consciousness · gender · femininity · queerness · technology · agency · loneliness · alienation · othering · language · humanity · dehumanization · violence · survival · racism · xenophobia · immigration · objectification · desire · intimacy · tenderness · performative identity · self-definition · body politics · sexuality · consciousness tests

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The Girl in the Road

Monica Byrne · 2014

Two women in different times and places flee violence toward Ethiopia, linked by a forbidden sea bridge and hidden truths.

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Themes labels: trauma · violence against women · patriarchy · colonization · exploitation · power shift · self-discovery · identity · memory · repression · religion · spirituality · sexuality · gender identity · mental illness · sanity · colonialism · resource extraction · climate change · globalism · feminism · pilgrimage · love and betrayal · class oppression · slavery · freedom · displacement

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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.

Why this is here

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

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Dead Happy

Josh Silver · 2024 · HappyHead

A gay teen is pushed into a deadlier island phase of a manipulative wellness experiment, where survival means staying authentic.

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Themes labels: mental health · therapy · brainwashing · conformity · identity · self-acceptance · queer identity · love vs manipulation · resilience · authenticity · agency · trauma · bullying · shame · acceptance · social pressure · eugenics

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