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Alastair Reynolds' On The Steel Breeze has a nice way of pulling off one of the more difficult character tricks for science fiction: A character that does not conform to 21st century binary gender.

Travertine is always referred to with Keri Hulm's gender neutral personal pronouns ve, ver, etc - Greg Egan also uses this version in referring to AIs. Which reminds me that I need to read Diaspora. It' Read more of this blog post »

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	Fading Light: An Anthology of the Monstrous by Tim Marquitz (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mark Lawrence (Goodreads Author), William Meikle (Goodreads Author) 4.10 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Corrupts Absolutely?: Dark Metahuman Fiction by Lincoln Crisler (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Peter Clines (Goodreads Author), Jeff Strand (Goodreads Author) 3.72 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twice Upon A Time: Fairytale, Folklore, & Myth. Reimagined & Remastered. by Joshua Allen Mercier (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Bo Balder (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), A.J. Bauers (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.04 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paramourtal: Volume Two by Kevin Hosey (Editor, Contributor), K. Stoddard Hayes (Editor), Nicole Dethmers (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Was a Teenage Metahuman by Nicholas Ahlhelm (Goodreads Author), Caine Dorr (Goodreads Author), Travis Hiltz (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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