Labeled a deserter years ago, Jal is on a space station hoping to join a crew for a ride home, but he ends up on the ship of the man who used to be his closest friend. Things are tense between them, but the crew has bigger problems when they answer a distress call and learn about something that will cause mass death if they don't stop...
Posts with Tag: Space / Other Planets
As much as I love lesser-known hidden gem kinda books, I do read popular books too, and sometimes hyped books are in fact worth the hype. So I am very glad I read these! They're all fantastic, and some of them are among my absolute favorites. So if you haven't read them yet, but you like queer books and books set in outer space, consider giving these a...
Space Haven is a complex management-style game set in space. Mine asteroids, make trades, salvage derelict spaceships, fight aliens and pirates, build your spaceship, and make sure your crew has all the supplies and living conditions they need to survive the harshness of...
Outer space is, well, scary, if I'm being honest. But also cool! In fiction, at least. So I have compiled a list of books that are set in space and on other planets and also gay. (A term I am using broadly, since these are mostly m/m, but there is one about a nonbinary character.) About half are romance-centric, the other half have some romance but it's small or not the only focus. But I enjoyed...
A crew is out in deep space on a mission to find the source of an alien signal, and on board, in a sealed compartment, is their navigator and ship designer, a vampire. When things on the ship start getting very weird, Captain Freeman decides the vampire might provide the answers and help they...
✨ One of my faves! ✨ I Was a Teenage Exocolonist is a complex, character-focused visual novel + RPG + deck builder about growing up on planet far from Earth. Choose activities and jobs, make friends, find romance, explore the wild, befriend alien lifeforms, and make decisions that will affect your life and that of everyone in the...
On their mission to track down Skadi, Dali and Rion end up in a new but related mess when they encounter a sentient AI lifeform who takes over Rion's body. But, despite some disagreements, the AI has similar goals and may prove an ally when things turn even...
Now part of a special team, Dali has been going on missions, hoping it will one day bring them closer to finding who was responsible for their partners' deaths. But then they get assigned to negotatiate with Shontavians, an alien species created for violence, and it may be their most dangerous and interesting mission...
Dali has been on bereavement leave from work, but when other third gender changelings start disappearing, they get recruited by a secret organization to help save the missing people by going undercover on an alien ship. The mission is risky, but Dali has found a reason to live again and is determined to save...
Elijah has spent his whole life on a small space colony and wants to explore the galaxy, so he stows away on a visiting ship and makes a deal with the captain: he'll help around the ship and sleep with the captain in exchange for staying. But the longer he stays, the stronger his feelings get, and he doesn't know if the captain feels the...