18 books like Some Desperate Glory

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Persephone Station Stina Leicht · 2021 · ★ 4.4 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Persephone Station, a seemingly backwater planet that has largely been ignored by the United Republic of Worlds becomes the focus for the Serrao-Orlov Corporation as the planet has a few secrets the corporation tenaciously wants to exploit. Rosie—owner of Monk’s Bar, in the corporate town of West Brynner—caters to wannabe criminals and rich Earther tourists, of a sort, at the front bar.… Shares Space, Lesbian, Queer, LGBT
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Ocean's Echo Everina Maxwell · 2022 · ★ 4.5 · 473p · ≈ 15h · Moderate When Tennal—a rich socialite, inveterate flirt, and walking disaster—is caught using his telepathic powers for illegal activities, the military decides to bind his mind to someone with coercive powers strong enough to control him. Enter Lieutenant Surit, the child of a disgraced general. Out of a desperate need to restore a pension to his other parent, Lieutenant Surit agrees to be bound to… Shares Queer, Adult, Space opera, Science Fiction
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Space Oddity Catherynne M. Valente · 2024 · ★ 4.0 · 344p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Space, Queer, Adult, Space opera with this book.
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The Obake Code Makana Yamamoto · 2026 · ★ 4.0 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate After the heist of a lifetime, Malia has it all: a loft apartment aboard the massive Kepler Station, expensive clothes, and a dev credit in her favorite video game. She’s also bored as hell. Three years after retiring her mantle as the Obake, the most infamous hacker in the quadrant—and arguably the galaxy—Malia hasn’t taken well to civilian life. So what’s the harm in rigging a few cybernetic… Shares Space, Lesbian, Queer, Adult
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Every Star a Song Jay Posey · 2021 · ★ 4.2 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Far in the future, human beings have seeded themselves amongst the stars. Since decoding the language of the universe 8,000 years ago, they have reached the very edges of their known galaxy and built a near-utopia across thousands of worlds, united and ruled by a powerful organization known as the Ascendance. The peaceful stability of their society relies solely on their use of this Deep Language… Shares Space opera, Science Fiction, Fantasy
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Every Sky a Grave Jay Posey · 2020 · ★ 3.7 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate *HER WORD IS HER WEAPON.* Mankind has spread out and conquered the galaxy by mastering the fundamental language of the universe. With the right training, the right application of words, truth itself can be rearranged. Language is literally power. Peace reigns now. Order reigns. For if a planet deviates too far from what the authorities plan, an agent is sent out to correct that. To… Shares Space, Adult, Space opera, Science Fiction
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Tarnished Are the Stars Rosiee Thor · 2019 · ★ 4.5 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A secret beats inside Anna Thatcher's chest: an illegal clockwork heart. Anna works cog by cog -- donning the moniker Technician -- to supply black market medical technology to the sick and injured, against the Commissioner's tyrannical laws. Nathaniel Fremont, the Commissioner's son, has never had to fear the law. Determined to earn his father's respect, Nathaniel sets out to capture the… Shares Lesbian, Queer, LGBT, Science Fiction
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Firebreak Nicole Kornher-Stace · 2021 · ★ 3.9 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Like everyone else she knows, Mallory is an orphan of the corporate war. As a child, she lost her parents, her home, and her entire building in an airstrike. As an adult, she lives in a cramped hotel room with eight other people, all of them working multiple jobs to try to afford water and make ends meet. And the job she’s best at is streaming a popular VR war game. The best part of the game… Shares Queer, LGBT, Adult, Science Fiction
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Nuestra parte de noche Mariana Enríquez · 2019 · ★ 4.2 · 598p · ≈ 19h · Moderate Un padre y un hijo atraviesan Argentina por carretera, desde Buenos Aires hacia las cataratas de Iguazú, en la frontera norte con Brasil. Son los años de la junta militar, hay controles de soldados armados y tensión en el ambiente. El hijo se llama Gaspar y el padre trata de protegerlo del destino que le ha sido asignado. La madre murió en circunstancias poco claras, en un accidente que acaso no… Shares Queer, LGBT, Adult, Fantasy
Into the Drowning Deep
Into the Drowning Deep Mira Grant · 2017 · ★ 3.9 · 440p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Seven years ago, the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a “mockumentary” bringing to life ancient sea creatures of legend. It was lost at sea with all hands. Some have called it a hoax; others have called it a maritime tragedy. Now, a new crew has been assembled. But this time they’re not out to entertain. Some seek to validate their life’s work. Some seek the greatest… Shares Queer, LGBT, Adult, Science Fiction
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Silver Under Nightfall Rin Chupeco · 2022 · ★ 4.5 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Remy Pendergast is many things: the only son of the Duke of Valenbonne (though his father might wish otherwise), an elite bounty hunter of rogue vampires, and an outcast among his fellow Reapers. His mother was the subject of gossip even before she eloped with a vampire, giving rise to the rumors that Remy is half-vampire himself. Though the kingdom of Aluria barely tolerates him, Remy’s father… Shares Queer, LGBT, Adult, Fantasy
Next Time Will Be Our Turn
Next Time Will Be Our Turn Jesse Q Sutanto · 2025 · ★ 4.0 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Izzy Chen is dreading her family’s annual Chinese New Year celebration, where they all come together at a Michelin-starred restaurant to flaunt their status and successes in hopes to one up each other. So when her seventy-three-year-old glamorous and formidable grandmother walks in with a stunning woman on her arm and kisses her in front of everyone, it shakes Izzy to her core. She’d always… Shares Lesbian, Queer, LGBT, Adult
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The Lamb Lucy Rose · 2025 · ★ 4.0 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Young Margot lives in the woods with Mama. Margot only knows what Mama's taught her, and sometimes, Mama's cannibalistic urges get the better of her. Together, they take in lost hikers - "strays" as Mama calls them - and make meals of them. But one day, a beautiful, disrupting, and maybe just as dangerous woman enters their hideaway, giving way to what could be another fatal shift. Shares Lesbian, Queer, LGBT, Adult
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
The Three Lives of Cate Kay Kate Fagan · 2025 · ★ 4.0 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Who is Cate Kay? **Cate Kay** is the most famous author on the planet. But it's just a name. Somehow, despite her bestselling novels and the record-breaking film franchise, the writer has remained completely anonymous. **Anne Marie Callahan** is the name nobody knows. Only the people she left behind. And Annie knows there's no one there anymore who could connect the dots between the girl… Shares Queer, LGBT, Adult
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Xeelee Stephen Baxter · 2017 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Half a million years in the future, on a dead, war-ravaged world at the centre of the Galaxy, there is a mile-high statue of Michael Poole. Poole, born on Earth in the fourth millennium, was one of mankind's most influential heroes. He was not a warrior, not an emperor. He was an engineer, a builder of wormhole transit systems. But Poole's work would ultimately lead to a vast and destructive… Shares Space opera, Science Fiction
Cover of Die strahlende Kuppel / Götterdämmerung
Die strahlende Kuppel / Götterdämmerung Karl-Herbert Scheer · 1969 · 190p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Translation of two volumes of the German science fiction series Perry Rhodan which began publication in 1961. It is a space opera, dealing with several themes of science fiction. Shares Space opera, Science Fiction
Cover of Up Jim River
Up Jim River Michael Flynn · 2010 **Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Award-winning SF writer Michael Flynn returns to space opera with *Up Jim River*.** There is a river on Dangchao Waypoint, a small world out beyond Die Bold. It is a longish river as such things go, with a multitude of bayous and rapids and waterfalls, and it runs through many a strange and hostile country. Going up it, you can lose… Shares Space opera, Science Fiction
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I Dare Sharon Lee · 2002 · ★ 4.9 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Shares Space opera, Science Fiction with this book.

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