#genly ai

[kailysander]

The Left Hand of Darkness

[art-of-pluton]

"Like the end and the way"

I think about The Left Hand of Darkness literally every day since I first read it in july

[agoddamneddelight]

the outer space guys are rotating in my brain !!! 🪐 🌎🚀

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SEMIFINALS: Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants spend most of their time without a gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters.

Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.

Science fiction, classics, speculative fiction, anthropological science fiction, distant future, adult

Imperial Radch series (Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword, Ancillary Mercy, Provenance, Translation State, and other stories) by Ann Leckie

Endorsement from submitter: "Breq/Justice of Toren is a ship AI and doesn't have a gender. The Radchaai language only has one pronoun for people, so (almost) everyone in the empire is she/her, to the point that they're infamous for failing to correctly guess which pronoun to use with outsiders."

On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.

Once, she was the Justice of Toren - a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy.

Now, an act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with one fragile human body, unanswered questions, and a burning desire for vengeance.

Science fiction, space opera, far future, series, adult

[ringneckedpheasant]

[strangers in a strange land, wanderers in a vast and unknowable universe]

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Genly Ai/Therem Harth rem ir Estraven- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Shesheshen/Homily- Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

Simon Torquill/Patrick Lorden/Dianda Lorden- October Daye Series by Seanan McGuire

Theo Flowerday/Kit Fairfield- The Pairing by Casey McQuiston

[archamion]

I can’t stop thinking about them

[asparklethatisblue]

Eyelashes frozen shut, thawed with a kiss.

A while back @aurpiment made a comment about Genly and Estraven based on The Kiss, as a concept. And? Fellas, I had to

[hermitmoss]

Illustrations by David Lupton from the Folio Society edition of The Left Hand of Darkness.

[eveningalchemist]

Best possible example, honestly.

[that-wizard]

you telling me the coolest person in the universe is non-binary? goddamn

[ashadowonsnow]

On the Gobrin Ice

[heyitsrink]

I am infected by Ai's pure pleasure in our achievement. Looked at soberly it is as bad as ever, up here.

[agoddamneddelight]

Genly and Estraven and their journey across the Gobrin ice

I also made a book poster for tlhod with this drawing under the cut :)

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Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 3

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Murderbot Diaries series (All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy, Network Effect, Fugitive Telemetry, System Collapse, and other stories) by Martha Wells

Endorsement from submitter: "Asexual and agender main character. In later books side characters are revealed to be in poly relationship."

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."

In a corporate-dominated space-faring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. For their own safety, exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.

On a distant planet, a team of scientists is conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid--a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, Murderbot wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is, but when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and Murderbot to get to the truth.

Science fiction, novella, series, adult

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants spend most of their time without a gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters.

Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.

Science fiction, classics, speculative fiction, anthropological science fiction, distant future, adult

[bespok3n]

genly “i don’t understand politics” ai and therem harth “unfortunately i understand politics very much so let’s run away together” estraven