Welcome to Litsy!

First snow at my new house! Happily it‘s less than an inch and the roads are fine so far.

This is a thought provoking novella of speculative fiction, set just a bit in the future. Every American gets a Universal Basic Income once a year, on the title date. Told from 4 women‘s POVs, each with a very different life circumstance. I think it‘s one of the best TOR novellas I‘ve read.

Check content warnings if needed.

Incredible. In this novel, we are plunged into a world in which all the white people in America are gone and the ones who are left - focus on the black and biracial MCs- have the opportunity to center themselves and in a new world and examine their identity, their heritage and generational trauma and what this new future could bring. I‘ll be thinking about this for a long time and I hope the rest of the book group feels the same!

"I am a huge fan of science fiction!"
- Foreword, LeVar Burton

"When Galactics arrived at JFK they often reeked of ammonia, sulfur, and something else Tavi could never quite put a finger on."
- The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex, Tobias S. Buckell

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

I saw this post on Instagram about being nostalgic and wrote a #haiku about it.

#haikuhive

"When a world leader advocates for the creation of a militaristic Space Force to exercise "dominance" in the heavens, we are moving further than ever from Gene Roddenberry's United Federation of Planets."

- LeVar Burton

Next up, a SciFi short story anthology edited by a non-binary person of colour, with a foreword by LeVar Burton 🖖😊, and written by people of colour. 🖤🤎🩷🤍🩵❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
#BookmarkMatching 🔖👽

Takes a lot to get a so-so out of me but when you put a famous person in a fictional book it hits wrong… unless that person was a jerk-face in real life and still not right but I‘m sure this is a good read for others … I just want my fiction- fiction and not with real world characters 👀 unless it‘s not fiction… like an autobiographical or true crime 👀 sorry… not sorry really but sorry

Months ago I filled out a questionnaire in the New York Times that would pick out a perfect book for me and this is the one I got. It‘s a short story collection, interconnected in odd ways, telling a futuristic story about mankind, AI, cloning and survival. I really liked the way the stories tied together at the end, hopeful and thought-provoking.

This was interesting. And entertaining.

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A world where you choose your own gender, and the magic of slackcraft can be learned and used to manipulate the elements. Interesting queer fantasy!

I enjoyed the first two more than the second two books, but they were low picks nevertheless.

Why did this end on a cliff hanger?? Does anyone know if more in this series are going to be published?

#queerbc @PuddleJumper
#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero