But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. Try this series if you like your magic with a side of romance and want to see a more human side to all-powerful gods! Her major series include: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms How could I start this list with anyone other than the powerhouse SFF author that is N.K Jemisin? She’s one of my favourite authors, her worldbuilding is almost unparalleled in the genre. I’ve tried to keep the descriptions short and sweet otherwise this would have gotten completely out of control and everyone would still be reading next week when my next post comes. So, I hope you can find some new authors to support in the coming weeks, because there are so many amazing stories and world out there that aren’t written by a cishet racist white guy. This series also seems rather timely (completely a coincidence) after the absolute disaster of the Hugo Awards last weekend, where some old white men decided to be horrifically rude and racist, spending the whole evening praising racist old white dudes from years ago instead of pronouncing the names of the winners and nominees (aka their fucking job) correctly. So for the next 5 weeks, I will be posting a list every Thursday celebrating 5 different segments of the SFF community: adult fantasy, adult sci-fi, horror (combined adult + YA), YA fantasy, and YA sci-fi. So I decided now would be a great time to celebrate the lesser-heard voices in the community, namely from marginalised authors of colour, authors in the LGBTIQA+ community, or from disabled or neurodivergent authors. I’ve already pretty much given up reading books by cishet men, particularly in SFF where there is such a history of misogyny, racism, homophobia and abuse.
If you missed my July wrap-up post where I introduced this series, well, surprise! You may have heard of the mass abuse and harassment revelations in the SFF community over the past few months, from very well-known and very well protected cishet male authors.
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