Friday, December 30, 2022

Unbeknownst To Me…

The library book that I borrowed is by a trans author! The book was the Nebula Award Nominee for Middle Grade and Young Adult (Andre Norton Award) (2021), Locus Award for Best Young Adult Novel (2022), Lodestar Award Nominee (2022)

She is the second author who I found out was trans. One I know of from real life she wrote a blog on Connecticut politics and is a Science Fiction author.

Her book “Victories Greater Than Death” 

Tina never worries about being ‘ordinary’—she doesn’t have to, since she’s known practically forever that she’s not just Tina Mains, average teenager and beloved daughter. She’s also the keeper of an interplanetary rescue beacon, and one day soon, it’s going to activate, and then her dreams of saving all the worlds and adventuring among the stars will finally be possible. Tina’s legacy, after all, is intergalactic—she is the hidden clone of a famed alien hero, left on Earth disguised as a human to give the universe another chance to defeat a terrible evil.

But when the beacon activates, it turns out that Tina’s destiny isn’t quite what she expected. Things are far more dangerous than she ever assumed. Luckily, Tina is surrounded by a crew she can trust, and her best friend Rachael, and she is still determined to save all the worlds. But first she’ll have to save herself.

Tor Books said,

For everyone who is or was a queer kid dreaming of a destiny in the stars, a place more welcoming and wondrous than here—this book is for you. 

In award-winning SFF writer Charlie Jane Anders’ YA debut, Tina Mains has always been destined for Victories Greater Than Death. Though she’s spent her seventeen years living like a fairly average white girl earthling, she’s actually a secret clone of the late Captain Argentian, a celebrated alien hero. She’s been living in wait for the sparkling beacon in her chest to call upon her to join the Royal Fleet and save the worlds.

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Victories Greater Than Death is a rollicking, joyous love letter to QTPOC nerds, especially those of us with anxiety, and who are figuring out how to feel at home in our own bodies. At last, at last, we get to have fun space adventures too. This is space opera at its brightest and most hopeful, even as it wrests with terrifyingly believable villains. 

There are many trans authors including: Kate Bornstein, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Julia Serano, Susan Stryker and non-binary Leslie Feinberg, and over 40 authors are listed on the web. There are also a number of trans SiFi and Fantasy authors including: RykaA Aoki, Susan Jane Bigelow, and S. Qiouyi Lu.

So that is what I was doing all week, listening to “Victories Greater Than Death” so I can get the second book in series before the new month because you are limited in the number of books you can take out from the library each month.

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