Recommendation lists focusing on sci-fi and spec fic tropes

Alright, here’s some common tropes in queer sci-fi and spec fic stories. These lists more than any others are proportioned by my interest in them, so please suggest any additions you think of!

Aliens (or non-humans from somewhere other than Earth. Because once we’re in space we’re the aliens.) 🛸

• Adaptation series by Malinda Lo
• The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
• The Stars Change by Mary Anne Mohanraj
• The Caphenon by Fletcher DeLancey

In Space ✨

• The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
• The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley
• Hullmetal Girls by Emily Skrutskie
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
• Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi
• Barbary Station by R. E. Stearns
• The Star Host by F. T. Lukens
• Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston
• 27 Hours by Tristina Wright
• Ardulum: First Don by J.S. Fields

AI

• The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
• The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow
• Barbary Station by R. E. Stearns
• Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston
• The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden

Superheroes

• Dreadnought by April Daniels
• Not Your Sidekick by C. B. Lee
• Hero by Perry Moore
• Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey

Timey-wimey

• In the Present Tense by Carrie Pack

Something’s evil

• The Lights by Carrie Pack