Books like 'Lofty Mountains: Eleven Stories of Cloudy Peaks, Airship Adventure, and Sapphic Experiences'

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  • A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

    A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 106 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent editionIt's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend.One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in...
  • Catalyst by Fletcher DeLancey

    Catalyst by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After disobeying orders and saving the planet of Alsea from invasion, Captain Ekatya Serrado returns home a hero and renegade, alongside Dr. Lhyn Rivers, now the foremost authority on a culture that fascinates and terrifies. They share a secret: they are tyrees, linked by an Alsean empathic bond that should be biologically impossible for two Gaians...
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    queer  science fiction  f-f  military  aliens  length-long
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  • Without a Front: The Producer's Challenge by Fletcher DeLancey

    Without a Front: The Producer's Challenge by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Alsea is fractured in the aftermath of war. So is its leader.Though devastated by a personal loss, Lancer Andira Tal must somehow stitch her world together and move it forward when all the rules have changed. Every decision is fraught with risk, and her enemies wait for her to stumble...
  • Uprising by Fletcher DeLancey

    Uprising by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A caste Prime with a personal grudge that may bring down the government. A captured soldier seeking peace with his former enemies. A rural landowner thrust into the highest levels of political power.As Alsea looks to the future, its foundations are cracked by the past...
    Categorized as:
    queer  science fiction  f-f  length-long
  • Alsea Rising: Gathering Storm by Fletcher DeLancey

    Alsea Rising: Gathering Storm by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.79 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    AN OLD ENEMY. A NEW THREAT.As Alsea’s space elevator nears completion, an unsettling rumor arrives: the Voloth are stirring once more.Lancer Andira Tal has been preparing for this since the Battle of Alsea, determined that her people will never again pay such a price. She will use every weapon at her disposal—including her own bondmate...
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    queer  science fiction  f-f  military  length-long
  • Alsea Rising: The Seventh Star by Fletcher DeLancey

    Alsea Rising: The Seventh Star by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Voloth have arrived.Their opening gambit upends months of planning. Their second assault leaves Alsea’s defenses scrambling. The third may end it all.While Captain Serrado and her forces desperately fight to prevent a catastrophe, Lancer Tal activates her secret weapon: the divine tyrees, led by Salomen Opah. But Salomen is no warrior, and a changing battle can unravel even the best of plans...
    Categorized as:
    queer  science fiction  f-f  military  length-long
  • Outcaste by Fletcher DeLancey

    Outcaste by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.77 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Rahel Sayana is desperate to escape the life her parents have planned for her. She runs away to the dangerous port city of Whitesun and becomes an outcaste: a person of no caste and few rights.From backbreaking labor on the docks to fighting off bullies, Rahel learns the lessons that propel her to the life of her dreams. Happiness does not last...
  • Resilience by Fletcher DeLancey

    Resilience by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.74 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As the first Alsean to serve aboard a Protectorate warship, Rahel Sayana thought her empathic sense would be an advantage. She never imagined it could be a weakness.Captain Ekatya Serrado has her hands full with a new empathic officer, an attempted murder, and a missing cargo ship. Finding the lost ship only adds to her problems: its crew lies dead amid signs of alien predators...
  • 残次品 [Can Ci Pin | Imperfections] by Priest

    残次品 [Can Ci Pin | Imperfections] by Priest

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    “这是最好的时代,也是最坏的时代。”——狄更斯《双城记》“我带着深藏骨血的仇恨与酝酿多年的阴谋,把自己变成一个死而复生的幽灵,沉入沼泽,沉入深渊,我想埋下腐烂的根系,长出见血封喉的荆棘,刺穿这个虚伪的文明。我到了淤泥深处……捡到了一颗星星。”It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.—— C. Dickens《A Tale of Two Cities》I took my hatred and plot for revenge with me down the mire, to the depths of the abyss, and returned as a ghost of the past...
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    queer  science fiction  m-m  dystopian  length-epic
  • 残次品 [Can Ci Pin | Imperfections] by Priest

    残次品 [Can Ci Pin | Imperfections] by Priest

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    “这是最好的时代,也是最坏的时代。”——狄更斯《双城记》“我带着深藏骨血的仇恨与酝酿多年的阴谋,把自己变成一个死而复生的幽灵,沉入沼泽,沉入深渊,我想埋下腐烂的根系,长出见血封喉的荆棘,刺穿这个虚伪的文明。我到了淤泥深处……捡到了一颗星星。”It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.—— C. Dickens《A Tale of Two Cities》I took my hatred and plot for revenge with me down the mire, to the depths of the abyss, and returned as a ghost of the past...
    Categorized as:
    queer  science fiction  m-m  dystopian  length-epic
  • Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer

    Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the final book of the Hugo Award-shortlisted Terra Ignota series.World Peace turns into global civil war.In the future, the leaders of Hive nations—nations without fixed location—clandestinely committed nefarious deeds in order to maintain an outward semblance of utopian stability...
  • Vellmar the Blade by Fletcher DeLancey

    Vellmar the Blade by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An elite warrior. A split-second decision that launches a legend.Lead Guard Fianna Vellmar is the daughter of a champion, raised from childhood to work hard and be the very best. When she is given the opportunity to compete at the highest level and earn her place among Alsea’s elite warriors, a stunning turn of events forces her to choose between life and glory, mercy and pride...
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    queer  science fiction  f-f  length-short
  • Far Enough by Fletcher DeLancey

    Far Enough by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Immediately after the uprising, Lhyn Rivers is called to account for her involvement in an event that shocked the world. Disturbed by her interview and missing her bondmate, she finds refuge at Hol-Opah.Salomen Opah is at loose ends, trapped on her holding with nothing to do and no distractions from unwanted memories...
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    queer  science fiction  f-f  length-novella
  • Warrior 3.0 by Natalie Debrabandere

    Warrior 3.0 by Natalie Debrabandere

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    CAN LOVE TRANSCEND TIME AND SPACE? Following victory on Earth, Commander Al’eesya Y Shar is once again fighting on behalf of the Confederation of Planets. The fierce, handsome soldier has put the past, and especially one particular human, behind her for good. Dr Kelsey Gray is a survivor. Although her own memories may be lost to her, her passion for saving lives is intact...
  • Timeless by Nicole Pyland

    Timeless by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Quinn has no idea why a short trip to a small town turned into her moving there and buying an antique shop, but after five years of waiting, her answer walks right through the shop’s door...
  • Fire's Mate by C.W. Gray

    Fire's Mate by C.W. Gray

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome back to Charybdis Station!Fire may be a deadly Crellic Element, but he much prefers napping and snacking to murdering armies. After centuries of being used as a weapon, he's finally able to live peacefully on Charybdis Station. While he's content to spend his days visiting his friends and raiding their homes for food, he longs for one more thing. A mate to call his own...
  • Constant by Lexi Ander

    Constant by Lexi Ander

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Can a Warlord and a Prince find love when the galaxy is on the brink of war?Chief Warlord Sohm'lan has a job he loves protecting the family who claims him as one of their own. He has known the loss of a mate and believed he would walk alone for the rest of his life… that is until Prince Mestor demanded more from him than duty...
  • Death's Mate by C.W. Gray

    Death's Mate by C.W. Gray

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Welcome to Charybdis Station!Dr. Verion Morrick is complicated. No, really. Not too long ago, Verion was simply a divorced research scientist on Frost Veil who wanted to reconnect with his estranged son. Now, a few years, one death and resurrection later, Verion is a new person -- both Death, the Crellic Element, and Verion Morrick. One being that helped protect the galaxy from an insidious evil...
  • Reduce! Reuse! Recycle! by T.J. Klune

    Reduce! Reuse! Recycle! by T.J. Klune

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 9 ratings
    An android who knows nothing besides his work in a factory, is given one final week to explore the world before he is forced to undergo mandatory reprogramming, in this bittersweet precursor to TJ Klune’s 'In the Lives of Puppets,' now available in trade...
  • Come to My Door by Lexa Luthor

    Come to My Door by Lexa Luthor

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Charlie always swore she'd go out with a bang! But it isn't her time, at least not in Kal's eyes. Questioning her survival, Charlie learns that the godly ruler brought her back from death. Charlie refuses to believe it, until she witnesses it for herself. Although Charlie isn't ready to face the truth behind Kal's actions, they continue their dangerous and secretive affair...
  • The Witches of Karres by James H. Schmitz

    The Witches of Karres by James H. Schmitz

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Captain Pausert thought his luck had finally turned-but he did not yet realize it was a turn for the worse. On second thought, make that a turn for the disastrous! Pausert thought he had made good with his battered starship, successfully selling off odd-ball cargoes no one else could sell...
  • Salvage Rights by Kelly Lucille

    Salvage Rights by Kelly Lucille

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A Distant Worlds Story Found on an abandoned salvage with no memory of who she is or how she ended up there, she becomes the salvage claim that powerful men will kill for. A truthsayer and a genetically tampered with Bruha, she has one chance to escape sexual slavery to a tyrant. ...His Brother. Lucan Warrung rules his pirate moon with an iron fist...
  • Apostles of Mercy by Lindsay Ellis

    Apostles of Mercy by Lindsay Ellis

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Apostles of Mercy is the new alternate history first contact novel from the instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal and LA Times bestselling Lindsay Ellis.First Contact has not been going well. The nations of Earth are rapidly militarizing against the arrival of the Superorganism, an alien civilization that promises to destroy humanity before it can develop into a real threat...
  • Lonely Shore: M/M Space Opera Second Chance Romance by Jenn Burke, Kelly Jensen

    Lonely Shore: M/M Space Opera Second Chance Romance by Jenn Burke, Kelly Jensen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    All they can do is live day to day…Felix Ingesson has returned to his duties as the Chaos’s engineer with Zander Anatolius, his ex-boyfriend-turned-broken-super-soldier, at his side. Hope means something again. But there’s nothing Felix can do to battle the alien poison flowing through Zander’s veins, or his imminent mental decline...
  • The Rebel's Mate by C.W. Gray

    The Rebel's Mate by C.W. Gray

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome back to Charybdis Station and the crew of the Blue Solace: (Seventh Book in the series) Finn Sterling is still adjusting to becoming the lieutenant of the blue fleet of Charybdis Station. As an orphan on Cardinal Hold, he never imagined he would have a position of authority as an adult and the trust his friends put in him makes failure impossible...
  • Beyond Reason by Lee McCormick

    Beyond Reason by Lee McCormick

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Sometimes the hardest thing is being the only one left alive. Axel Fetterman: The Cleaner Twenty-two years ago, my world ended. I was called to a scene to find the man I loved, cold and lifeless, on the ground. Every moment between now and then has been nothing more than existing between one breath and the next while dealing with the grief of losing the one person I couldn’t live without...
  • Rebellion by Hannah Walker

    Rebellion by Hannah Walker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ferido Einadi has worked at the heart of the Barin Alliance. As a Founding Senator, he’s supposed to be in a position to create the change the Alliance needs to improve life for all its citizens. Instead, he finds himself at odds with those in command, those who are desperate to control the Alliance and shape it to their own desires...
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    queer  military  m-m  science fiction  length-long
  • TruLove by Nicole Pyland

    TruLove by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In an ever-changing and complex world, it can be hard to find love. But there’s a new company called TruLove, and they offer people a chance to take a few tests and receive a list of the top ten people on the planet that they could be happy with. No more of this ‘one person in the world for each person...
  • The Harvest Young: Bound by Love by M.A. Church

    The Harvest Young: Bound by Love by M.A. Church

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Will history repeat itself?Years of peace are shattered with a devastating strike against the very heart of Tah’Nar, and war threatens once more.Prince Hamza Shou: Young to King Duran and King Consort Jolak. Grief stricken. Angry. Vengeful. Screams of the dying stalk his waking moments. Death surrounds him even as he plots...
  • Third Don by J.S. Fields

    Third Don by J.S. Fields

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    The planet wakes. Atalant is torn between two worlds. In uncharted space, head of a sentient planet, the new eld of Ardulum now leads the religion she once rejected. Emn is by her side but the Mmnnuggl war brewing in the Charted Systems, threatening her homeworld of Neek, cannot be ignored. Atalant must return to the planet that exiled her in order to lead the resistance...
  • Day of Wrath by Anna Butler

    Day of Wrath by Anna Butler

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    In less than a week, Bennet will finally return to the Shield Regiment, leaving behind the Gyrfalcon, his father, his friends… and Flynn. Promotion to Shield Major and being given command of a battle group despite the political fallout from Makepeace the year before is everything he thought he wanted. Everything he’s worked towards for the last three years. Except for leaving Flynn...
  • A Soldier First by Natalie Debrabandere

    A Soldier First by Natalie Debrabandere

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    New York – London – Paris – Los Angeles… ALL GONE.Of the eight billion people who lived on Earth in 2020, only two-and-a-half now remain. Commander Sky Y Shar has gone AWOL on her own military to lead the human Resistance, but they are seriously under-resourced and losing fast. She struggles with recurring nightmares and violent flashbacks...
  • Tis the Season for Tentacles by Chloe Archer

    Tis the Season for Tentacles by Chloe Archer

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    BLURB FORTHCOMINGTis the Season for Tentacles is part of the multi-author winter holiday M/M tentacle romance collaboration, Tinsel and Tentacles 2.0. All books are standalones but may be connected to some authors’ pre-existing worlds...
    Categorized as:
    queer  aliens  science fiction  m-m
  • Starship Mine by Peter Cawdron

    Starship Mine by Peter Cawdron

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    James Patterson is a gay accountant living in Keyes, Oklahoma—deep in the Bible Belt—the religious heartland of America...
  • Stitch by Eli Easton, Jamie Fessenden

    Stitch by Eli Easton, Jamie Fessenden

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Stitch is an anthology of 4 novellas by m/m romance authors, each with a Frankenstein/Creature theme. It is the first in a series of gothic m/m romance anthologies called gothika. The stories in this volume are: Made For Aaron by Sue Brown As a teenager, Aaron Fox was sent to an asylum by his parents because he was gay, leaving him emotionally fragile after the treatment...
  • Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson

    Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    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 She is an enforcer who keeps the peace in Ashtown, a rough, climate-ravaged desert town...
  • Hanger, Vol. 2 by Hirotaka Kisaragi

    Hanger, Vol. 2 by Hirotaka Kisaragi

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    In a futuristic Neo-Tokyo, crime is rising rapidly in the wake of a new generation of super-drugs capable of enhancing the user's physical and mental abilities. Hajime Tsukomo is a new recruit on a federal task force trained to go after these powered-up criminals...
  • The Walls of Westernfort by Jane Fletcher

    The Walls of Westernfort by Jane Fletcher

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    All Natasha Ionadis wants is to serve the Goddess as a Temple Guard, and she volunteers eagerly for a dangerous mission to infiltrate a band of renegade warriors and imprinters. But, once away from the temple, the issues are no longer so simple and she must revaluate her beliefs, especially in light of her growing attraction for one of the outlaws...
  • Makepeace by Anna Butler

    Makepeace by Anna Butler

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    **Second Place Winner 2016 Rainbow Awards: Best Gay Sci-fi//Futuristic. ** Returning to duty following his long recovery from the injuries he sustained during the events recounted in Heart Scarab, Shield Captain Bennet accepts a tour of duty in Fleet as flight captain on a dreadnought...
  • BLACK BLOOD by Hayate Kuku

    BLACK BLOOD by Hayate Kuku

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A Boys’ Love sci-fi manga that pushes the boundaries on the meaning of love.Ethan, a battle-weary cyborg soldier, retreats to a tranquil planet in search of peace. There, he meets Mikhail, a gentle botanist whose warm smile and delicate touch seem almost fragile. Ethan finds himself inexplicably drawn to Mikhail, experiencing a restless unease whenever they’re together...
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    queer  science fiction  m-m  length-short
  • Command Decision by Elizabeth Moon

    Command Decision by Elizabeth Moon

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    With the Vatta�s War series, award-winning author Elizabeth Moon has claimed a place alongside such preeminent writers of military science fiction as David Weber and Lois McMaster Bujold. Now Moon is back�and so is her butt-kicking, take-no-prisoners heroine, Kylara Vatta...
  • Queen of Chaos by Sabrina Chase

    Queen of Chaos by Sabrina Chase

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nobody mentioned notorious space pirates worried about housing issues, but Moire Cameron must plan for enemy attacks--with even more people to protect than her crew. Increasingly desperate as her options vanish and Toren closes in, can she refuse any alliance? Even with the enemy? The triumphal, action-packed conclusion to the Sequoyah trilogy...
  • Delphini: Damage Control by Hannah Walker, Kellie Dennis Book Cover By Design

    Delphini: Damage Control by Hannah Walker, Kellie Dennis Book Cover By Design

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Dax and Bell crash land on an unknown planet they only have one objective— find their friends and fellow Avanti. Of course Bell needs to heal up from his injuries first, then they have to work out where to go. Their biggest problem is— they hadn’t counted on the world they landed on being quite as large as it was...
  • Once Upon an Ocania by Hannah Walker

    Once Upon an Ocania by Hannah Walker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After their trip to Berinias is delayed, thoughts turn to both love and the future. Ocania, a day of love for mated pairs, gives the men a treasured day off. But with love in the air, all the Avanti seem to feel the pull, pushing some to go after those they want and try to fulfil their hearts desire...
  • Cam's Fortune by Odessa Lynne

    Cam's Fortune by Odessa Lynne

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Once every three years, humans become sexual prey to a species that has no control over the urge to mate because of a devastating attraction to human scent...
    Categorized as:
    queer  science fiction  m-m  aliens  length-medium
  • On Strike Against God by Joanna Russ

    On Strike Against God by Joanna Russ

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Joanna Russ's On Strike Against God is remarkable for its deft intertwining of many themes: not only the overt one of coming out, but many intricately (and inevitably) interlaced stories of alienation, a search for community and rebellion against how our society defines women...
    Categorized as:
    queer  humor  f-f  science fiction  length-novella
  • New World: Breathe with Me by Lily X.

    New World: Breathe with Me by Lily X.

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Time travel leads to lust—and love—in this fourth installment of Lily X's breathtaking New World series.Aster: When a client hands me a batch of gorgeous Old Earth antiques, my eyes linger on an odd, gilded mirror topped with a mysterious yellow stone. In all my years as a collector, I've never seen anything like it. And probably never will again...
  • New World: Safe with Me by Lily X.

    New World: Safe with Me by Lily X.

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A pilot from Old Earth crash lands in a whole New World—and falls for her dreamy medic—in Lily X’s sexy, fluffy sci-fi romance. Havi: Aww hell. I probably shouldn’t have “borrowed” a US military ship to flee impending disaster on Earth, but it’s not like we had a better option...
  • Titans by Erik Schubach

    Titans by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    The Valkyrie and the Asgard must contend with an adversary unlike any they have faced before.Kara comes up against an enemy she does not know how to confront. Her brute force fighting skills are useless against this new enemy, and she must match wits with the Titan leader in a battle of wills.Surprises abound and awkward alliances are formed...
  • The Barony Bet by Kai Butler

    The Barony Bet by Kai Butler

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    A wager he can’t lose... Lord Deva lives a charmed life. As the son and heir of one of the Empire’s wealthiest lords, Deva’s biggest problem is protecting his younger siblings from their father’s wrath. But when Deva’s actions place him on the verge of disinheritance, his only hope is an insurmountable task...
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