#Time to orbit unknown

[a-queer-little-wombat]

I really need to lure more folks into treading TTOU just so they understand why I'm cackling over these.

Please enjoy some fun and possibly outdated memes for Time to Orbit: Unknown by @derinthescarletpescatarian

I want to say this is spoilers for up until chapter...75 or so? I can't put enough love for this story into just these 12 images and can't possibly capture everything happening because SO MUCH happens. Would highly recommend.

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Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 1

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Locked Tomb series (Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, Nona the Ninth, and others) by Tamsyn Muir

Endorsement from submitter #1: "An extremely fun, humorous romp! A heart-breaking, soul crushing catharsis inducing tragedy! A thoughtful piece on imperial structures and trauma. On queerness, Muir flawlessly and without announcement, cracks gender open like an egg and spills its disproven guts across the page. The Locked Tomb does it all also bones, bitch."

Endorsement from submitter #2: "Lesbian necromancers in space. So many fascinating, sort of fucked up sapphic relationships going on."

The Emperor needs necromancers.

The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.

Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.

Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won't set her free without a service.

Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. If Harrowhark succeeds she will become an immortal, all-powerful servant of the Resurrection, but no necromancer can ascend without their cavalier.

Without Gideon's sword, Harrow will fail, and the Ninth House will die. Of course, some things are better left dead.

Fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, humor, series, adult

The Javelin Program by Derin Edala (Time to Orbit: Unknown series)

When Dr Aspen Greaves signed up for the Javelin Program, humanity's first foray into colonising deep space, they expected to wake up to life in a thriving colony on a distant planet. Instead, they find themself five years away from their destination on a broken spaceship full of complex mysteries, dead astronauts, and a very unhelpful AI.

Aspen wasn't trained for any of this. But if they can't keep themselves alive, get the ship in working order, and find out what went wrong by unravelling a chain of mysteries leading all the way back to distant Earth, then neither Aspen nor the five thousand sleeping passengers in their care will ever see a planet again.

Science fiction, mystery, series, adult

[queerforscience]

Read this story about a normal and functional spaceship

Read this normal article about football

[atmosphere-of-the-marvelous]

Surely I will not regret starting this right before a 9-hour flight…right?

@derinthescarletpescatarian

[skrytch]

Okay so @derinthescarletpescatarian books arrived in the mail today and I'm wondering whether I should read the collection of short stories first to kind of dip a toe in and acclimate myself to to their writing or just jump speed first into the deep end with perfectly normal spaceship

*EDIT*

I finished the books

My live blog is here

[effira]

i read the first part of @derinthescarletpescatarian 's time to orbit: unknown over the course of the last week or so and i'm extremely normal

go read it idk

[kjell-e]

Reading the book about the very normal spaceship by @derinthescarletpescatarian and I have about 80 Chapters left but with every sentence I read the capslock of the words DERIN WHAT THE FUCK in my head get bigger and bigger and bigger and

[industrialangel]

Just got perfectly normal books about a perfectly normal spaceship, and this explains why i stayed up so late reading them online

[patheticbatman]

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[randomishnickname]

i love her so much😭

[hello-copter]

@derinthescarletpescatarian I got TTO:U for Christmas! I'm so excited to read it again.

[everydaygremlin]

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SEMIFINALS: Queer Fiction Free-for-All Book Bracket

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Endorsement from submitter: "That book was written in 1969 and yes, not everything hold up today, but for the time is very progressive"

A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants spend most of their time without a gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters.

Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.

Science fiction, classics, speculative fiction, anthropological science fiction, distant future, adult

Time to Orbit: Unknown series (The Javelin Program, The Antarctica Conspiracy) by Derin Edala

When Dr Aspen Greaves signed up for the Javelin Program, humanity's first foray into colonising deep space, they expected to wake up to life in a thriving colony on a distant planet. Instead, they find themself five years away from their destination on a broken spaceship full of complex mysteries, dead astronauts, and a very unhelpful AI.

Aspen wasn't trained for any of this. But if they can't keep themselves alive, get the ship in working order, and find out what went wrong by unravelling a chain of mysteries leading all the way back to distant Earth, then neither Aspen nor the five thousand sleeping passengers in their care will ever see a planet again.

Science fiction, mystery, series, adult

[chameleonsallinvermillion]

I've taken the advice of my tumblr dash and started reading Time To Orbit: Unknown and my absolute favourite thing about it? This book does not pussyfoot around about moral dilemmas. You've got to make a decision. There are no good options but you've still got to pick one. People will die whatever you do. You are clueless of the consequences and there's no moral high ground. Figure out what your values are and commit to it. So many stories are cowards and give you a "good" option, for good people to pick, and all the good people pick the good option, or pick no option, and things work out okay and it's not their fault. On the Courageous, it probably is your fault at least a little bit but you've got to choose anyway. The way this story handles guilt is fascinating to me. Tinera's push to get over it, move on, make the next choice. It's gutsy. I appreciate it.

[librarychair]

These have some real heft to them IRL. @derinthescarletpescatarian thanks for a normal xmas

[sunlitsorrows]

I AM CHEWING GLASS ABOUT DANDELION BESTIES I AM EATING DIRT