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This is a list for works of science fiction that feature transgender and intersex characters. For this list, "transgender" should be taken at its broadest interpretation, including: transgender, transsexual, ftm, mtf, genderqueer, agender, androgyne, hijra, two spirit, kathoey, muxe, and other identities.
Please limit texts to science fiction and speculative fiction.
Please limit texts to science fiction and speculative fiction.
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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4.10 avg rating — 213,591 ratings
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Eric Olafson : Space Pirate (Eric Olafson Series)
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Vanessa Ravencroft (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 140 ratings
score: 800,
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8 people voted
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A Civil Campaign (Vorkosigan Saga, #12)
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Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)
4.41 avg rating — 20,145 ratings
score: 678,
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Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction
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3.41 avg rating — 348 ratings
score: 559,
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6 people voted
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Imago (Xenogenesis, #3)
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4.20 avg rating — 23,989 ratings
score: 460,
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Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 61,662 ratings
score: 388,
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4 people voted
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Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)
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4.19 avg rating — 27,898 ratings
score: 382,
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4 people voted
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An Unkindness of Ghosts
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Rivers Solomon (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 21,360 ratings
score: 381,
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The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 392 ratings
score: 368,
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Static
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L.A. Witt (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 1,447 ratings
score: 300,
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3 people voted
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Once & Future (Once & Future, #1)
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3.55 avg rating — 10,576 ratings
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Full Fathom Five (Craft Sequence, #3)
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Max Gladstone (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 5,060 ratings
score: 297,
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3 people voted
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Mirror Dance (Vorkosigan Saga, #8)
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Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 23,084 ratings
score: 295,
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Lips Like Ice
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Peggy Barnett (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 582 ratings
score: 295,
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3 people voted
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After School Nightmare, Volume 1
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3.84 avg rating — 3,139 ratings
score: 294,
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3 people voted
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All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
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Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 348,644 ratings
score: 294,
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3 people voted
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Dreadnought (Nemesis, #1)
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April Daniels (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 9,158 ratings
score: 290,
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Aye, and Gomorrah
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3.98 avg rating — 1,054 ratings
score: 281,
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The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2 (The James Tiptree Award Anthology series)
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3.89 avg rating — 88 ratings
score: 280,
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3 people voted
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Wraeththu (Wraeththu #1-3)
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3.94 avg rating — 2,685 ratings
score: 276,
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3 people voted
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The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire (Wraeththu, #3)
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4.28 avg rating — 762 ratings
score: 270,
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3 people voted
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Xenogenesis: Dawn / Adulthood Rites / Imago (Xenogenesis, #1-3)
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4.37 avg rating — 21,678 ratings
score: 267,
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3 people voted
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The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3: Subversive Stories about Sex and Gender (The James Tiptree Award Anthology series)
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3.98 avg rating — 96 ratings
score: 266,
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3 people voted
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Commitment Hour (League of Peoples, #2)
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James Alan Gardner (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 653 ratings
score: 256,
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3 people voted
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The Bone Palace (The Necromancer Chronicles, #2)
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Amanda Downum (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 1,261 ratings
score: 199,
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2 people voted
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Potato Surprise (Brimstone #1)
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Angel Martinez (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 282 ratings
score: 199,
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2 people voted
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Silver (Humanotica, #1)
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Darcy Abriel (Goodreads Author)
3.17 avg rating — 47 ratings
score: 198,
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Saga, Volume 1
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4.16 avg rating — 356,961 ratings
score: 198,
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2 people voted
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To Be Taught, If Fortunate
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Becky Chambers (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 54,370 ratings
score: 198,
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2 people voted
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Lythande
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3.72 avg rating — 2,306 ratings
score: 196,
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2 people voted
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Beauty Queens
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Libba Bray (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 55,149 ratings
score: 196,
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2 people voted
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The Broken Forest
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Megan Derr (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 196 ratings
score: 196,
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2 people voted
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Triton
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3.70 avg rating — 2,301 ratings
score: 195,
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2 people voted
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Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers
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Cat Fitzpatrick (Editor)
3.99 avg rating — 463 ratings
score: 195,
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2 people voted
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Winter’s Orbit
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Everina Maxwell (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 26,866 ratings
score: 193,
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2 people voted
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The Man Who Folded Himself
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David Gerrold (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 6,754 ratings
score: 192,
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Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction
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Grace L. Dillon (Editor)
3.81 avg rating — 474 ratings
score: 190,
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2 people voted
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Venus Plus X
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3.71 avg rating — 2,089 ratings
score: 190,
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Not Your Villain (Sidekick Squad, #2)
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C.B. Lee (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 2,720 ratings
score: 190,
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2 people voted
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Collected
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Solar Harris (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
score: 188,
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2 people voted
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Kim & Kim, Vol. 1
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3.60 avg rating — 739 ratings
score: 188,
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Halfway Human
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4.02 avg rating — 684 ratings
score: 177,
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2 people voted
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I Will Fear No Evil
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3.66 avg rating — 12,477 ratings
score: 176,
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Steel Beach
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3.97 avg rating — 3,354 ratings
score: 175,
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The Bewitchments of Love and Hate (Wraeththu, #2)
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4.24 avg rating — 849 ratings
score: 174,
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Future Histories
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Giselle Renarde (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings
score: 172,
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The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit (Wraeththu, #1)
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3.88 avg rating — 1,474 ratings
score: 168,
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Hinori's Journey
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Victoria Zagar (Goodreads Author)
3.13 avg rating — 126 ratings
score: 167,
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2 people voted
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Prosperity (Prosperity, #1)
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Alexis Hall (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 763 ratings
score: 166,
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2 people voted
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Primed
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G.P. Francis (Goodreads Author)
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 100,
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Revived
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Cat Patrick (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 9,476 ratings
score: 100,
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Coronation Necklace (Outlander Leander: Vol.2)
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Eisah (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 100,
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The Courier's New Bicycle
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3.63 avg rating — 144 ratings
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The Smoke Ring (The State, #3)
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3.78 avg rating — 3,710 ratings
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Liberty Awash
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J.W. Bruns (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 100,
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Europa's Crossing
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Henry Hallan (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Perihelion (Queenships, #1)
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Tami Veldura (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Innocent Minds
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Christina Engela (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 100,
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Tiger & Bunny, Vol. 1
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3.77 avg rating — 574 ratings
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Sous la colline
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3.72 avg rating — 29 ratings
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I'm Sorry This Isn't Porn and Other Apologies
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Verity Ritchie (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 100,
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The Jellyfish Device
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William Marshall (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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First Angels (Digitesque #2)
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Guerric Haché (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Replicas (Galactic Association of Intelligent life Book 2)
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4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Zenobia July
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Lisa Bunker (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 1,403 ratings
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Dominion of Blades (Dominion of Blades, #1)
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Matt Dinniman (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 3,259 ratings
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Ice Song
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Kirsten Imani Kasai (Goodreads Author)
3.44 avg rating — 196 ratings
score: 99,
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Ilario: The Lion's Eye (First History #1)
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3.48 avg rating — 324 ratings
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Loderunner
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Christina Engela (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Reincarnated Prince
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Danny Macks (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings
score: 99,
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A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)
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Becky Chambers (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 86,066 ratings
score: 99,
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Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)
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Everina Maxwell (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 9,201 ratings
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Body Jacker Jaz (Earth Scout, #1)
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Matthew Thompson (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Extra (Ordinary) People
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3.74 avg rating — 252 ratings
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Space Vacation
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Christina Engela (Goodreads Author)
3.32 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Set This House in Order
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Matt Ruff (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 6,127 ratings
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Time Turns (Out of Time, #4)
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C.B. Lewis (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
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4.32 avg rating — 6,094 ratings
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The Butterfly and the Flame
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3.36 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Knights of Sidonia 1 (Knights of Sidonia #1)
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3.70 avg rating — 1,789 ratings
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Dead Man's Hammer
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Christina Engela (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Sissy Planet
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Crystal Veeyant (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Quantum Teens Are Go Volume 1 (Quantum Teens Are Go, #1)
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3.71 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel
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Julian K. Jarboe (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 1,192 ratings
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Red Spider, White Web
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4.17 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories
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4.07 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Knights of Sidonia 2
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3.84 avg rating — 887 ratings
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Alters, Vol. 1
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3.69 avg rating — 232 ratings
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Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072
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M.E. O'Brien (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 1,639 ratings
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Knights of Sidonia #3
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3.92 avg rating — 752 ratings
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All City
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3.66 avg rating — 376 ratings
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Knights of Sidonia #4
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Knights of Sidonia #5
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Across a Field of Starlight
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All You Zombies
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4.07 avg rating — 7,190 ratings
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Knights of Sidonia #6
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Future Feeling
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3.53 avg rating — 1,055 ratings
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Knights of Sidonia #7
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4.09 avg rating — 495 ratings
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O Human Star, Volume Three
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4.74 avg rating — 263 ratings
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