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Trans Scifi/Fantasy Stories

In honor of Transgender Awareness Week (this year November 13 - 19), here's a list of SFF standalone or first-in-a-series novels, comics, and short story collections that feature trans leads or are written by trans authors! #WCCLS #HillsboroLibrary

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  • A YA superhero origin story! Danny Tozer unexpectedly inherits the superpowers of the world's strongest hero and now must adjust to the world knowing she's trans while saving it from the supervillain who killed the original Dreadnought. #ownvoices…
    Book, 2017New York : Diversion Books, [2017] — YA DANIELS, A.
  • Captain Kel Cheris seeks to redeem herself by recapturing the Fortress of Scattered Needles, and enters into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the undead and murderous tactician Shuos Jedao to do so. Contains strong content. #ownvoices #series
    Book, 2016Oxford, UK : Solaris, 2016. — 813.6 23
  • A YA magical realism novel about two friends, one who grows roses from her hands and the other who is known for the moons he paints and hangs in trees, and the four witches who are hunting them down. #standalone
    Book, 2016New York : Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Griffin, 2016. — YA MCLEMORE Anna-Marie
  • Kai builds gods to order- creations that don't have independent thought, but who protect followers from other gods. When one of her creations dies, she seeks out the truth and discovers a terrible conspiracy. Technically, this is either book 3 or 5…
    Book, 2014New York : Tor, A Tom Doherty Associatees Book, 2014. — FSF GLADSTONE, Max
  • Published along with it's twin novella, The Red Threads of Fortune, this story follows Akeha and his twin sister Mokoya as they grow up in a world on the edge of rebellion. #ownvoices #series
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Tom Doherty Associates, 2017. — YANG, JY
  • In a world where slavery was never abolished, Aster grows up on a spaceship modeled after the antebellum South. When she becomes linked with the sovereign's untimely death, she fights back and civil war begins to brew. Be warned, this novel contains…
    Book, 2017Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2017] — SOLOMON, RIVERS
  • A story about love and familial ties, that follows Teodora DiSangro, the daughter of a mafia don, as she seeks to save her father's life, discovers the truth about herself, and falls in love with the genderfluid magic weilder Cielo. #ownvoices…
    Book, 2018New York : Viking Childrens Books, 2018.
  • Loosely connected to Elizabeth Bear's Steles of the Sky series, this epic fantasy series follows four characters, two carrying an important message through a land on the edge of war, and two fighting furiously to defend their thrones in a mounting…
    Book, 2017New York : Tom Doherty Associates, 2017. — FSF BEAR, E.
  • If you're looking for a softer story, this comic follows Frances, a brilliant young dressmaker, who becomes the designer for Sebastian, the prince of the realm, who is also secretly Lady Crystallia, the city's most iconic fashionista. It's a…
    Graphic Novel, 2018New York : First Second, 2018. — YA WANG, J.
  • A trans retelling of Peter Pan! Peter left Neverland to grow up, resigning himself to life as Wendy Darling, but when he returns for one last visit, the world he used to know so well has changed, and make-believe war games are now real, and what was…
    eBook, 2017[S.I.] : Less Than Three Press, LLC, 2017. — Overdrive
  • Meanwhile, Elsewhere

    Science Fiction and Fantasy From Transgender Writers

    A collection of scifi, fantasy, and horror fiction from twenty-five transgender writers. "The #1 post-reality generation device approved for home use! This manual will prepare you to travel from multiverse to multiverse. No experience is required."
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Topside Press, [2017]
  • Transcendent 3

    the Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction

    "From an intergalactic art heist to the everyday life of a trans woman through the lens of horror movies; non-binary parenting in the far future, to a unique method of traveling back to the past. Steampunk, ghosts, even deities, all can be found in…
    Book, 2018Amherst, Massachusetts : Lethe Press, 2018. — FSF STORIES TRANSCENDENT
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