Queer SF - March 2027
March 5, 2027
Godbutcher — Ben Alderson
Genre: Romantasy, mythology
Rep: M/M
GODS SHALL FALL. FATE WILL RULE.
In the world of Aetherion, everyone has heard whispers of the Godbutcher. To Mortals, he is a legend. To the powerful Exalteds, he is a myth. But to the immortal Celestials, he is something far worse: their finality.
His name is Mavros Ravenglass.
Hidden for years on an island ignored by the gods, Mavros has spent his life in the shadows after his mother fled there with him as a child, desperate to protect their secrets. But when a visiting dignitary is murdered inside Irton Manor, suspicion falls on Mavros and his family, forcing him to flee the only home he has ever known to protect them.
His escape sends him across the ocean and directly into enemy territory: a glittering city ruled by the Exalted, the powerful children of the gods. Disguised as a mortal, Mavros is forced into The Ascension Crucible, a brutal competition of deadly trials, political game play, and divine meddling, where only the strongest survive.
For Mavros, winning means vengeance against the Celestials who destroyed his life.
But survival becomes far more complicated when he is bound to two dangerous allies: Zyran Ouranous, his enigmatic and infuriatingly handsome Exalted sponsor, and Odith, the cursed Celestial of Death. As betrayal, forbidden magic, and ancient prophecies tighten around them, Mavros discovers that Fate may be the one enemy even the Godbutcher cannot kill.
This dark epic, Greek mythology-inspired fantasy, enemies-to-lovers romance, and slow-burn MM romantasy, GODBUTCHER is the first book in an action-packed fantasy romance saga filled with deadly tournaments, gods, false-heroes and monsters, political intrigue, fated mates, and morally grey heroes.
Link: Goodreads
March 16, 2027
These Savage Stars — Kameron Hurley
Genre: Grimdark space opera
Rep: Lesbian
Series: Companion novel to The Stars Are Legion
Killing Eve meets Die Hard in a fast-paced, all-female suicide mission that leaves the lives of two whole planets in the balance in the latest novel by the Hugo Award–winning author of The Stars are Legion.
Kameron Hurley returns with a companion novel to The Stars Are Legion with this tale of revenge set in a decaying worldship that is set to crash into a planet in forty-one hours. A former spy, Reyka—left planetside in retirement—is asked to return to the decaying worldship Satvi to confront a terrorist that has kidnapped her Lord’s daughter.
Racing against time, Reyka is uniquely suited for this rescue/suicide mission, as she’s killed this terrorist once before—her wife.
Link: Goodreads
Heartsgrove — Allison Saft
Genre: Romantasy
Rep: M/M
Series: Standalone in established universe
In this queer folkloric romance from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Dark and Drowning Tide, set in that same world, a world-weary botanist must untangle three mysteries before his time runs out—a plagued grove, a dying dryad prince, and the curse slowly eating his body alive.
In the wake of a disastrous scientific expedition, life has gone on for all the surviving members—save for one. Ludwig von Meyer, renowned botanist and victim of a deadly curse, is slowly turning into a tree.
His body grows more alien by the day, and then there’s the matter of the blackouts, which have him waking inside an eerie, blighted grove.
Then, one night, he awakes on the doorstep of the grove’s keeper, a mysterious dryad prince named Alois, who offers a pact. Alois can lift Ludwig’s curse, on one condition: Ludwig must rid the sacred grove of its blight.
With the bargain sealed, Ludwig has only a handful of weeks to solve the mystery of the grove before his curse makes him a permanent part of it... and before the handsome dryad who increasingly owns Ludwig’s heart perishes along with his trees.
Link: Goodreads
March 23, 2026
The Fall of Elvenesse — Kai Ashante Wilson
Genre: Epic fantasy
Rep: Queer
Award-winning author Kai Ashante Wilson returns with a bold new vision of fantasy. The Fall of Elvenesse transforms the genre of Tolkien in the image of N. K. Jemisin, Marlon James, and Simon Jimenez.
Elves have ruined the world.
From their high mountain, the cruel knights of Elvenesse range out to conquer. They pillage, they enslave, they wreak genocide. Always the Elves have taken, never considered when the bill for their crimes will come due.
That time has come. The fury of the world has awoken. The victims will have their vengeance.
A divine scourge of fire sweeps across the land toward Elvenesse, and the last free people of the Nations flee before it. As the mountains char, rivers boil, and savannas burn, the Free Nations rely on the muscle and magic of their strong and runt freaks. But as their one remaining Saint assumes his power, he receives a prophecy: the Nations’ only path to survival runs through Elvenesse. Only by navigating the Elven labyrinth can he win his people’s lives.
Link: Goodreads