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Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 2
Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune (The Cerulean Chronicles)
Endorsements from submitter: "Utterly delightful book about found family and queerness and building community and questioning authority."
A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret.
Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages.
When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel to Marsyas Island Orphanage, where six dangerous children reside: a gnome, a sprite, a wyvern, an unidentifiable green blob, a were-Pomeranian, and the Antichrist. Linus must set aside his fears and determine whether or not they’re likely to bring about the end of days.
But the children aren’t the only secret the island keeps. Their caretaker is the charming and enigmatic Arthur Parnassus, who will do anything to keep his wards safe. As Arthur and Linus grow closer, long-held secrets are exposed, and Linus must make a choice: destroy a home or watch the world burn.
An enchanting story, masterfully told, The House in the Cerulean Sea is about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place—and realizing that family is yours.
Fantasy, romance, series, adult
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (The Space Between Worlds series)
Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there’s just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying—from disease, turf wars, or vendettas they couldn’t outrun. Cara’s life has been cut short on 372 worlds in total.
On this Earth, however, Cara has survived. Identified as an outlier and therefore a perfect candidate for multiverse travel, Cara is plucked from the dirt of the wastelands. Now she has a nice apartment on the lower levels of the wealthy and walled-off Wiley City. She works—and shamelessly flirts—with her enticing yet aloof handler, Dell, as the two women collect off-world data for the Eldridge Institute. She even occasionally leaves the city to visit her family in the wastes, though she struggles to feel at home in either place. So long as she can keep her head down and avoid trouble, Cara is on a sure path to citizenship and security.
But trouble finds Cara when one of her eight remaining doppelgängers dies under mysterious circumstances, plunging her into a new world with an old secret. What she discovers will connect her past and her future in ways she could have never imagined—and reveal her own role in a plot that endangers not just her world, but the entire multiverse.
Science fiction, multiverse, politics, mystery, series, adult
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My UK Tour
Hope to see some of you in Bath, London or Glasgow! I’m so excited to be appearing with so many cool people.
#Toppings bath#book tour#samantha shannon#tasha suri#kylie lee baker#micaiah johnson#Worldcon#bookblr#sarah rees brennan
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finally started the space between worlds thinking it was a fun scifi book but the dedication hit me like a truck
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Oh my god has everyone seen the cover + blurb reveal for Micaiah Johnson's new book Those Beyond the Wall, set in The Space Between Worlds universe!!
Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a series of sudden and inexplicable deaths in a searing sci-fi thriller from the Compton Crook Award–winning author of The Space Between Worlds. Scales is the best at what she does: She is an enforcer who keeps the peace in Ashtown, a rough, climate-ravaged desert town. But that fragile peace is fractured when a woman is mangled and killed within Ash’s borders, right in front of Scales’s eyes. Even more incomprehensible is that there was seemingly no murderer. When more mutilated bodies start to turn up, both in Ashtown and in the wealthier, walled-off Wiley City, Scales is tasked with finding the cause—and putting an end to it. She teams up with a frustratingly by-the-books partner and a brusque-but-brilliant scientist in order to uncover the truth, delving into both worlds to track down the invisible killer. But what they find points to something bigger and more corrupt than they could’ve ever foreseen—and it could spell doom for the entire world.
#The Space Between Worlds#Those Beyond the Wall#Micaiah Johnson#cover reveal#'set in the space between worlds universe' which one#also. looking at this cover and looking at my TSBW fanart.....haha
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The Space Between Worlds has a sequel called Those Beyond the Wall in case the first book was being too subtle and wow, is it powerful.
Representation of every kind, sci fi done right, a fully fleshed out world with real antiheroes who are hotter than hell. I loved the first one and cannot believe the second is just as good.
Micaiah Johnson, the writer that you are:
“…rage is a sister to hope alone. We rage because we do believe things can be better, by fire if necessary.”
#micaiah johnson#those beyond the wall#the space between worlds#yes some familiar faces pop up too#and it is everything you hoped for#I would thank Mr Scales for punching me at this point#mr scales#Cara/Dell#Dell Ikari
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I don’t think I’ve ever been called out by a book harder than when the crime gang ruling the lawless ghetto outside the sci-if utopic fascist city wore all spiked black leather and I thought wow their fits go so hard and in the later chapters it was shown that dressing like the gangs that run the lawless ghetto is in fact a major fashion aesthetic amongst the rich in the said city 💀
#and the impoverished op was disgusted by it….. I’m sorry I showed my middle class ass#the space between the worlds#Micaiah Johnson#it’s gr8
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“…he’s done letting me hide which is fine because I’m done hiding too. I won the war against the other world so I’m happy to lose the battle against wanting to touch him. Against letting myself be loved by someone who dares to talk to god.”
“Those Beyond the Wall”
-Micaiah Johnson
#speculative fiction#dystopian fiction#thoughtful#mindfulmoments#inspiring quotes#self love#journal thoughts#a journey to love#black fiction#black fic writer#journal#self positivity#black queer history#love quotes#love quote life quotes#love quote tumblr#micaiah johnson#thosebeyondthewall#unicornthoughts
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If there’s such a thing as a utopian dystopia, it’s the universe of Micaiah Johnson’s new novel, which imagines what it would take to bring about a more equitable society — as seen through the lens of a bleak world inspired by our own.
Thank you @penguinrandomhouse for the free book.
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Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 1
Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (The Space Between Worlds series)
Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there’s just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying—from disease, turf wars, or vendettas they couldn’t outrun. Cara’s life has been cut short on 372 worlds in total.
On this Earth, however, Cara has survived. Identified as an outlier and therefore a perfect candidate for multiverse travel, Cara is plucked from the dirt of the wastelands. Now she has a nice apartment on the lower levels of the wealthy and walled-off Wiley City. She works—and shamelessly flirts—with her enticing yet aloof handler, Dell, as the two women collect off-world data for the Eldridge Institute. She even occasionally leaves the city to visit her family in the wastes, though she struggles to feel at home in either place. So long as she can keep her head down and avoid trouble, Cara is on a sure path to citizenship and security.
But trouble finds Cara when one of her eight remaining doppelgängers dies under mysterious circumstances, plunging her into a new world with an old secret. What she discovers will connect her past and her future in ways she could have never imagined—and reveal her own role in a plot that endangers not just her world, but the entire multiverse.
Science fiction, multiverse, politics, mystery, series, adult
The Adventure Zone Graphic Novels series (Vol 1: Here There Be Gerblins, Vol 2: Murder on the Rockport Limited!, Vol 3: Petals to the Metal, Vol 4: The Crystal Kingdom, Vol 5: The Eleventh Hour, Vol 6: The Suffering Game) by Clint McElroy, Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy (Illustrated by Carey Pietsch)
Endorsement from submitter: "One of main characters is in gay relationship with Death"
Welcome to the Adventure Zone!
SEE! The illustrated exploits of three lovable dummies set loose in a classic fantasy adventure!
READ! Their journey from small-time bodyguards to world-class artifact hunters!
MARVEL! At the sheer metafictional chutzpah of a graphic novel based on a story created in a podcast where three dudes and their dad play a tabletop role playing game in real time!
Join Taako the elf wizard, Merle the dwarf cleric, and Magnus the human warrior for an adventure they are poorly equipped to handle AT BEST, guided ("guided") by their snarky DM, in a graphic novel that, like the smash-hit podcast it's based on, will tickle your funny bone, tug your heartstrings, and probably pants you if you give it half a chance.
With endearingly off-kilter storytelling from master goofballs Clint McElroy and the McElroy brothers, and vivid, adorable art by Carey Pietsch, The Adventure Zone: Here There be Gerblins is the comics equivalent of role-playing in your friend's basement at 2am, eating Cheetos and laughing your ass off as she rolls critical failure after critical failure.
Graphic novel, fantasy, humor, adventure, series, adult
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Rage is dirty fuel,
but it burns hotter
than grief ever could.
-Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds
#writing#aesthetic#rose#burning rose#rose on fire#book quote#literary quotes#literary#book#literary quotations#literary quote#book quotes#book quotations#the space between#the space between worlds#micaiah johnson#author quote#aesthetic quotes#aesthetic quote#rage#anger#rage post#grief#grief/mourning#aesthetics for my blog#follow for follow#this quote really stayed with me#lingering thoughts#rose aesthetic#author of color
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*Spoilers* for The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
Just finished this book which overcame all expectations I had for it! I bought it in a bundle with a few other sci-fi books and the text it's advertised with doesn't tell you shit!
It's about a lesbian, former sex-worker, interdimensional space traveler of colour from the ghetto who takes over the life of one of her (dead) selfs in another universe and eventually takes down the cartel-like mega-corporation she works for.
This book has it all, there are issues of pay gap, skin colour, work exploitation, political decisions (and the lack thereof), religious groups (not the fanatic kind) and atheists, (somewhat) found family
Also there are non-binary people. They don't explain this as a concept though, they just are. (Personally I love this. No big explanations on anything. People exist, get over it.)
The story also deals with various traumatic experiences including drug abuse, (violent) death of loved ones, domestic and emotional abuse (in the characters past). If you are sensitive to those topics this book might not be for you.
Addition I wanted to share: I read the translation. In my first language all nouns which describe a person can be male or female (as in actor/actress but for like everything) and for groups containing at least one male the masculine plural will be used. But in this book they use the feminine plural for all groups that don't include males only. Way to go!
#the space between worlds#book#micaiah johnson#spoilers#queer representation#homosexual#lesbian#non-binary#book review#read this book if you can#i loved it!#feminism
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2024 Book #149
Title: The Space Between Worlds Author: Micaiah Johnson Genre: Scifi, Dystopian, LGBTQIA+ Series: The Space Between Worlds, Book 1
Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there's just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying--from disease, turf wars, or vendettas they couldn't outrun. Cara's life has been cut short on 372 worlds in total. On this dystopian Earth, however, Cara has survived. Identified as an outlier and therefore a perfect candidate for multiverse travel, Cara is plucked from the dirt of the wastelands. Now what once made her marginalized has finally become an unexpected source of power. She has a nice apartment on the lower levels of the wealthy and walled-off Wiley City. She works--and shamelessly flirts--with her enticing yet aloof handler, Dell, as the two women collect off-world data for the Eldridge Institute. She even occasionally leaves the city to visit her family in the wastes, though she struggles to feel at home in either place. So long as she can keep her head down and avoid trouble, Cara is on a sure path to citizenship and security. But trouble finds Cara when one of her eight remaining doppelg ngers dies under mysterious circumstances, plunging her into a new world with an old secret. What she discovers will connect her past and her future in ways she could have never imagined--and reveal her own role in a plot that endangers not just her world but the entire multiverse.
Rating: 4.75 ⭐
Quick thoughts: loved this, excellent complex and nuanced characters, critiques on classism☑️ racism☑️ capitalism☑️, engaging plot, and of course sapphics my beloved ❤️🧡🤍🩷
#The Space Between Worlds#Micaiah Johnson#2024 reads#bri's adventures in literature#my one complaint was that i just wanted more of this world and this was a standalone#but whoops my bee actually there is a sequel#which i somehow already had on hold at the library bc i wanted to read it despite not even knowing it was a second book#to be fair this can very much be read as a standalone#this was a debut and it was so good omg
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The Space Between Worlds Summary:
Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there’s just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying—from disease, turf wars, or vendettas they couldn’t outrun. Cara’s life has been cut short on 372 worlds in total. On this Earth, however, Cara has survived. Identified as an outlier and therefore a perfect candidate for multiverse travel, Cara is plucked from the dirt of the wastelands. Now she has a nice apartment on the lower levels of the wealthy and walled-off Wiley City. She works—and shamelessly flirts—with her enticing yet aloof handler, Dell, as the two women collect off-world data for the Eldridge Institute. She even occasionally leaves the city to visit her family in the wastes, though she struggles to feel at home in either place. So long as she can keep her head down and avoid trouble, Cara is on a sure path to citizenship and security. But trouble finds Cara when one of her eight remaining doppelgängers dies under mysterious circumstances, plunging her into a new world with an old secret. What she discovers will connect her past and her future in ways she could have never imagined—and reveal her own role in a plot that endangers not just her world, but the entire multiverse.
Camp Damascus Summary:
Camp Damascus is the world’s most effective gay conversion camp. Nestled in the Montana wilderness, parents send their children from around the world to experience the program’s 100% success rate.
But, this story isn’t about that. This story is about Rose Darling, a God-fearing young lady who can’t stop puking up flies. It’s about her parents who ignore her visions of an eerie woman with sagging, pale skin who watches from the woods. It’s about the desires deep inside Rose that don’t seem to make any sense, and her waking nightmares that are beginning to feel more like memories. And maybe, just maybe, it’s a little bit about Camp Damascus after all.
#the space between worlds#micaiah johnson#camp damascus#chuck tingle#lgbt books#lgbt literature#queer books#queer literature#lgbtqia#poll#bookblr#booklr#books#literature#queer lit
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The Space Between Worlds makes me angry - I should've liked this book. I wanted to like this book.
I mean, the premise is great, worldbuilding shows promise, themes it tries to tackle are worth tackling, characters could be interesting... Then it all falls apart because of poor pacing. The protagonist says she shouldn't do something, then immediately does it for no apparent reason. Subplots are started and minor characters get introduced, never to be returned to. You get to the halfway point and feel like you've reached the end, and are starting a completely different (and slightly better) book. A romance is tacked on. The ending fails to resolve some pretty major points but makes sure to reassure you the protagonist will get her happy ending anyway. Just, aaaaagh.
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