The 10 Best Sci-Fi Books With Trans and Non-Binary Characters

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The 10 Best Sci-Fi Books With Trans and Non-Binary Characters

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Cover art for three trans/enby sci-fi books

The future is genderfluid. Then again, so was the past. Considering trans people have been historically documented for millennia, and have existed for as long as human beings have been around, it only makes sense that we’d be conquering the stars one day. As a genre that is fundamentally about transcending the perceived limits of the human experience, sci-fi pairs with trans thought better than peanut butter and chocolate (sorry, jelly). If you’re looking for 10 of the best sci-fi books with trans and non-binary characters, you’ve landed on the right literary planet.

A Psalm For The Wild Built

The cover for A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
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Becky Chambers’ A Psalm For The Wild Build is a solarpunk novel, one that radically embraces optimism, open-mindedness, and a harmonious existence between the technological and natural world. This is the exact balance that non-binary acolyte Dex is attempting to cultivate in their life. Training to be a tea monk (basically a hot leaf juice pouring therapist) Dex discovers that the job is harder than they expected after a disastrous experience with a first client leaves them stumped. Seeking answers to life’s big questions, Dex wanders off into the woods and bumps into another genderless being: Splendid Speckled Mosscap – a rather philosophical robot. No existential quandaries have been solved yet, but you know what they say, two non-binary heads are better than one.

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