Happy Friday, shipmates! It’s Alex, and I’ve got some more new releases for you and a couple science fiction books with MLM/gay characters in them. I hope you have a lovely last weekend of Pride Month! (It’s Denver’s Pride Parade this weekend, so you know where I’ll be.) Stay safe out there, space pirates, and I’ll see you on Tuesday!
Let’s make the world a better place, together. Here’s somewhere to start: NDN Collective and Jane’s Due Process.
Queer Culture Stickers by YasPetitPoulet
I cannot resist these adorable stickers that are a delightful pun for Pride! Culture, get it? You can’t stop us, we’re going to grow. $6
New Releases
The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi
The red-blooded rule the empire, their power defined by their blood. Sylah was once told she would spark the revolution against their tyranny while she grew up in the resistance. But when she meets Anoor, the disappointing daughter of the most powerful ruler of that empire, the spark between them will ignite more than change–and might immolate them both.
Juniper & Thorn by Ava Reid
In a city that’s changing from one run by magic to one run by industry, Malinchen and her sisters live with their xenophobic wizard father and act like a tourist trap as the last true witches. The girls sneak out at night to explore the city and enjoy its thrills, until Marlinchen meets a ballet dancer who captures her heart. But her love is complicated by her tyrannical father–and the monsters that stalk the city’s streets.
For a more comprehensive list of new releases, check out our New Books newsletter.
Riot Recommendations
As we’re drawing to the close of Pride Month, we’re going MLM for the last two newsletters. Today, it’s some science fiction with MLM/gay characters–we’ll get some fantasy on Tuesday.
The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
A spaceship captain who visits a planet every fifteen years–but for her only a few months pass due to time dilation–discovers a young boy in the wreckage of another ship. An ancient scientist who has lived a thousand years because of cryogenic sleep discovers his mysterious ability, which will change the course of space travel forever.
I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi
When aliens show up and let the people of Earth know that they have seven days before the kill switch will be hit and all life will be destroyed, three teenagers try to figure out how to put their affairs in order. And in so doing, their lives will collide in unexpected and important ways.
See you, space pirates. If you’d like to know more about my secret plans to dominate the seas and skies, you can catch me over at my personal site.