#Alex White

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Balmacaan by Michael Kors.

Photographed by Cameron McCool. Styled by Alex White. Modelled by Tess Breeden.

Elle September 2024

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Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Adult Fiction: July-December 2024

Peregrine Seas by R.C. Ballad (July 1st) Prince Peregrine couldn’t be happier to be kidnapped by pirates. Peregrine wasn’t cut out for the restrictive life of a nobleman – he’s hungry for adventure, prone to duelling, and his family refuse to believe he’s any kind of man at all. Despite his royal origins, he has more in common with the outcasts and rebels aboard the Cygnus that anyone onshore. He…

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Anya Taylor-Joy, photographed by Zoey Grossman and styled by Alex White for ELLE US May 2021

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Read this month: August 2024

So many enjoyable books:

Honami Shirono - I want to be a Wall Vol. 03

Emma Jacobsen - Die Glücksbäckerei am Meer (eARC)

Marie Kondo - The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up

T. Kingfisher - Jackalope Wives and other Stories

Alex White - Star Trek DS9: Revenant (German eARC)

Heather Fawcett - A Galaxy of Whales

Rainbow Rowell - Slow Dance

I finally felt like reading physical books again - though I did not make a huge dent in my "books to read in 2024" as I mostly read all the great new books I got this month. My average time to finish a book skyrocketed, because I actually started Jackalope Wives on January 1st and only finished it in August (I am not looking forward to the month I finally finish The Fellowship of the Rings - I started that one in Febuary and am only about halfway through).

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Imaan Hammam for Elle US August 2023 Photographer Chris Colls Fashion Editor/Stylist Alex White Makeup Artist Frank B Hair Stylist Hos Hounkpatin Manicurist Maki Sakamoto Set Designer Maria Weinhoff Newest Cool

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Imaan Hammam for Elle Magazine August 2023

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One of the things I dislike the most in far future science fiction is when the author cites artists, figures and events from our modern times or older.

It takes me out and suspends my disbelief because how you be telling me that in hundreds, thousands, TENS OF THOUSANDS of years into the future NOTHING happened? There were no great musicians, painters, poets, politicians writers etc that came up and would become cultural touch stones? That bitches are still glazing Caesar in the year 15,000 AD? Come on now!

And to be fair there is a cornel of realism to that, even now we talk about art & events that happened centuries ago. And even millennia ago with the likes of Aristotle...but are we talking about stuff from 10,000 BC?? The neolithic? Okay yes we don't have proper records of that time but the ice age to now is the same measure of time as from now to the time some of these far future sci-fi novels. Outside of specific niche fields of study ain't nobody talking about Gr'og the cave painter.

It's an issue I'm having with the Sun Eater books, and I guess that's the unfortunate rub of Dune's heavy inspiration(just bc Frank Herbert got away with it in the 60s when the genre was newish and the standards lower doesn't mean you can copy it into the 21st Century). It's 20k years in the future why are you talking about Plato and the like?. Why isn't Hadrian quoting the poetry of his time period? Why isn't he talking about the great generals of 17,000AD?

So it was extremely refreshing to read August Kitko and the mechas from space, and the characters talked about invented music & artists of their time period. Or the older art they referenced would be from 3 centuries ago... which would still be 300 years into our future!. It adds texture and history to world, culture does not stagnate for 600 years it grows and changes.

I'm not saying never reference modern things/our classics but don't ONLY do that make up things for the future if you can come up with gene spliced slug buses you can make up a famous poet that'll be popular in 19,000AD.

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Irina Shayk x Elle Magazine

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Interview with Alex White, author of Star Trek DS9: Revenant

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Trish Goff

"Saturday Night Sunday Morning" The Face, November 1994

Photographed By Craig McDean

Stylist: Alex White

Hair: Eugene Souleiman

Make-up: Pat McGrath

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Anok Yai, wearing Mugler

Photographed by Mario Sorrenti, styled by Alex White

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Fave Five: Queer Adult Space Opera Series, Part I

The Farian War by K.B. Wagers Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell The Salvagers and The Starmetal Symphony by Alex White The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis Teixcalaan by Arkady Martine

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Sora Choi, photographed by Sharif Hamza and styled by Alex White for ELLE US March 2023

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Alright as we draw near the end of the transrightsreadathon I thought I would post some recomendations of books by authors who are trans. I'm a huge fan of sff series so here are the first books in 4 series that really worked for me. They are exciting, romantic, brutal and thoughtful by turns. Each one has a wonderful sense of the world they exist in and the characters that inhabit those worlds and they play with tropes and themes in ways that I found interesting. Many of these have trans characters as well, but not all of them. Most of these authors have other books outside of these series that are also wonderful (you might see some of them in the other reclists that I am going to post). And these are just a handful of examples, there are so many fabulous books by and about people who are trans.

What are some of your favorite series by trans authors? Are there any I should give a try?

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

Witchmark by C.L. Polk

A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White

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I started reading Revenant by Alex White while on a trip last weekend. I'm about half of the way through and enjoying it. It's an interesting sci-fi thriller that focuses on Jadzia Dax and the past hosts of the Dax symbiont and explores Trill culture. I've always found the concept of the Trill fascinating, so it's great to delve more into this topic.

I think this is Alex White's first Star Trek novel, I hope they write more in future.