Book Releases: Science Fiction (January to June 2023)

New year, new LGBT books! Hopefully the rules of our releases posts are clear, but just to reiterate: we have 8 of those posts, for genres listed below, and we update each one every month with new books coming out (that we know about). Every post covers half a year.

In this one, you can browse the science fiction books from January to June of 2023!

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JANUARY

I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marisa Crane (sapphic mc)
The Keeper’s Six by Kate Elliott (side m/nb relationship)
The Traveler’s Gift by K.D. Holloman (m/m relationship)
Child of the Crystal Planet by Ennis Rook Bashe (f/nb relationship)
The Infinite by Ada Hoffmann (autistic sapphic mc)
Hamlet, Prince of Robots by M. Darusha Wehm (m/m relationship)
Rosemary by Nat Burns (f/f relationship)
Hero Complex by Jesse J. Thoma (f/f relationship)
Another Dimension Of Us by Mike Albo (m/m relationship)
Swift the Storm, Fierce the Flame by Meg Long (side sapphic characters)
Over The Moon by S.E. Anderson (f/f relationship)
Broken Valley by Owen Lach (gay mc)
Motor Crush, Volume 3 by Brenden Fletcher (f/f relationship)

FEBRUARY

Are You Happy Now by Hanna Jameson (achillean mcs)
Station Six by S.J. Klapecki (nonbinary mc, lgbt cast)
Sterling Karat Gold by Isabel Waidner (nonbinary mc; reprint)
Safe With Me by Lily X (f/f relationship)
Frontier by Grace Curtis (f/f relationship)
World Running Down by Al Hess (trans mc, gay mc, m/m relationship)
Too Dangerous to Keep by Skye Kilaen (f/f relationship)
We the Parasites by A. V. Marraccini (lgbt characters)
Meru by S. B. Divya (f/nb relationship)
Mech Cute by Van D. Vicious (f/f relationship)
A Transcendental Habit by James Callan (gay mc)
Rockstar & Softboy Go to Space by Sina Grace (achillean mcs)
Project Nought by Chelsey Furedi (gay mcs, m/m relationship, nonbinary mc, sapphic mc, nonbinary & sapphic side characters)
Youth, Season 2: Badlands by Curt Pires, Alex Diotto, Dee Cunniffe & Micah Myers (m/m relationship)
Izzy at the End of the World by K.A. Reynolds (bi mc)
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes (sapphic mc)

MARCH

Furious Heaven by Kate Elliott (bi mc, lesbian mc, f/f relationship)
The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older (f/f relationship)
Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo (f/f relationship)
Flux by Jinwoo Chong (biracial Korean American bi mc, m/m & m/f relationships)
In the Lives of Puppets by T. J. Klune (m/m relationship)
Loki’s Ring by Stina Leicht (nonbinary mcs)
Unusual Minds by Tracie Hollis (f/f relationship)
Life is Strange: Steph’s Story by Rosiee Thor (lesbian mc)
Seeds for the Swarm by Sim Kern (lgbt characters)
Made of Stars by Jenna Voris (gay mc)
Strictly No Heroics by B. L. Radley (fat lesbian mc with PTSD, bi li, f/f relationship)
City of Secrets by Alex London (nonbinary characters)
Walking Practice by Dolki Min, trans. by Victoria Caudle (genderfluid mc)
Proud Pink Sky by Redfern Jon Barrett (m/m relationship)

APRIL

Outside the Lines by Melissa Sky (f/f relationship)
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh (lesbian mc, gay & nonbinary characters) tw radicalisation, homophobia, misogyny, rape, sexual assault
The Thick and the Lean by Chana Porter (bi mc)
The Way of the Cicadas by Audrey Henley (bi mcs)
Seeing Sean by Patrick Doyle (m/m relationship)
One or Several Deserts by Carter St. Hogan (lgbt cast)
If I See You Again Tomorrow by Robbie Couch (m/m relationship)
Harley Quinn: Ravenous by Rachael Allen (bi mc)
Against The Stars by Christopher Hartland (m/m relationship)
Promises Stronger Than Darkness by Charlie Jane Anders (bi/pan mc, Black Brazilian trans female bi/pan mc, nonbinary characters)
Grace Needs Space! by Benjamin A. Wilgus & Rii Abrego (sapphic parents)
The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown (Black sapphic mc)
Descendant Machine by Gareth L. Powell (f/f relationship)
Starseer by Katya Hernández (m/m relationship)
Lords of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky (sapphic mc)

MAY

Bang Bang Bodhisattva by Aubrey Wood (trans mc)
Lost Places by Sarah Pinsker (sapphic characters)
Uranians by Theodore McCombs (gay mcs)
The Lion and the Dahlia by Gabriel Hargrave (m/m relationship)
The Blighted Stars by Megan O’Keefe (bi trans mc, m/f relationship)
Confessions of a Former Teen Superhero by Keith Hartman (gay mc)
City of Vicious Night by Claire Winn (bi mcs, f/f relationship)
Dual Memory by Sue Burke (achillean mc)
Space Hysteria by Ava Lock (f/f relationship)

JUNE

The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon (m/m relationship)
Homeland by Kristin Keppler & Allisa Bahney (f/f relationship)
The Infinite Miles by Hannah Fergesen (pan mcs)
The Ghosts of Trappist by K. B. Wagers (pan mc, bi mc, nonbinary mc)
Translation State by Ann Leckie (nonbinary mcs, achillean mc, m/nb relationship, f/nb side relationship)
Junker Seven by Olive J. Kelley (nonbinary mc, trans li)
My Heart is Human by Reese Hogan (trans mc)
Cosmoknights: Book Two by Hannah Templer (sapphic mc, f/f side relationship, trans side character)
Runners by Justin Hale (lgbt cast)
Girls Ashore by Vesna Kurilić (f/f relationship)
Aether by Molly J. Bragg (sapphic trans mc, f/f relationship)
The Long Game by Ann Leckie (nonbinary mc)

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