Clarke awards - about a ship's AI who becomes trapped in a human body and her quest for revenge. Not by any means a definitive list, the hope is that it can help expand the conversation started by Nelson, Garétta, and the writers featured here. by Ann Leckie ( 4,137 ) 9.99 Ancillary Justice is Ann Leckie's stunning debut - the only novel to ever win the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. The below list contains, with these books in mind, a collection of novels that feature agender, bigender, or gender-fluid characters and narrators. (Reprinted on Transcriptase 21) 'Needle and Thread'. At the end of April, too, American audiences were finally able to access Anne Garétta’s Sphinx - wonderfully translated from the French by Emma Ramadan - a novel that uses no gender markers to refer to its protagonists. 20 (Reprinted in Science Fiction: The Best of the Year 2007. The last month alone has seen the publication and widespread critical acclaim of Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, a moving, multi-genre consideration of gender fluidity (among other themes).

But in the current moment, at least one promising development is certain: literary writing that challenges or refuses stable gender binaries is of increasing critical and aesthetic prominence. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet ( 2014) ( Wayfarers, book 1) Becky Chambers. Contemporary literature is an amorphous, expansive thing, and it isn’t always easy to pinpoint how or why it is changing or what it may become.

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