Gay Fantasy Stories

[caleb72]

Originally Posted by futurebear

I want to move to Canada. Don't really see a reason to get married, but the men tend to be hotter there.

[BenG]

Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana has a gay character who at first is a stereotypical caricature, but things aren't quite what they seem.

[caleb72]

Originally Posted by BenG

Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana has a gay character who at first is a stereotypical caricature, but things aren't quite what they seem.

I loved that book.

[Harlock415]

Originally Posted by GreenMonkey

3rding Lackey's Last Herald Mage.

Honestly, she's got a pretty large sprinkling of gay characters throughout her Valdemar books, although last Herald Mage is probably the best (IMO), there's some more in the Mage Winds/Storms. Vows and Honor is about a couple of lesbian mercenaries, too.

+1 for the Mercedes Lackey books. But i have to agree that the characters in Vows and Honor are not lesbians, they just don't need men.

Not on ebook platforms, at least not in the US, not sure about UK, I would recommend Storm Constantine Wreaththu books. The Wreatthu are androgynous beings, but she writes them as if they were homosexual males. Her semi mainstream - as far as she ever got to it - fantasy trilogy is the Magravandias Trilogy.

[Nyssa]

The Guild of the Cowry Catchers by Abigail Hilton isn't specifically "Gay Fantasy" but does have a main character who is gay. There is a major storyline surrounding one of his lovers but that comes a little later in the series. The story is very character driven. I've enjoyed the first 3 books so far and am impatiently awaiting the fourth.

[pholy]

Originally Posted by futurebear

I want to move to Canada. Don't really see a reason to get married, but the men tend to be hotter there.

It's just self-defense.... the air is colder here

and some of us pack on more insulation 'cause the beer is better


Actually, I started reading this thread to see if anybody mentioned Diane Durgin's _Door into ..._ series. She has an omnibus edition called _The Tale of the Five_ at her site. I enjoyed it immensely.

[Todd Young]

I know Jay Bell has written a couple of gay fantasies. I've only read his "Something Like Summer" which was excellent - though not a fantasy.

http://www.amazon.com/Jay-Bell/e/B003EN0PBO/

[Ken Maltby]

Robin Hobb's new "The Rain Wilds Chronicles" spends some time exploring a few gay character's relationships. In fact I'm beginning to think I've been tricked into buying
a "Romance" series! I was expecting it to be more like her "Farseer" series.

Luck;
Ken

[Aroihkin]

*de-lurks* I hope no one minds me bumping an old thread, lol.

Originally Posted by Synergi

The Surrogate by Ann Somerville,

I bought it on Amazon and it comes with the sequel attached at no extra charges. This is a big book.. I think about 100 thousand words for the two books together. I'm still reading the second book but the first one was excellent. There is a rape of one of the major characters..(but not by the other main characters).. I don't want to give it away, but there was no mindless sex in the book. There was only sex when it made sense and moved the story along. It was all story and character driven and a breath of fresh air. I can't tell you how sick I get of seeing a sex scene every other page, as if it is filler, which it probably is! The blight of the character really move you.

I tried this one based off this rec and... kind of disliked it, honestly. And its sequel. :/

Don't get me wrong, the first 2/3 or so of the first book was good! But right around when Big Plot Stuff Happened it just fell flat to me. It was like the author got bored and hit the fast forward button. And then the second book... meh. It didn't even have the interesting setup of the first, IMO.

Just an opinion, though.

As for recs:

A Companion to Wolves by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
The Tempering of Men by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette

Amazon links for the sake of description. My own is clumsier: the setting is sort of... Valdemar horses / Pern dragons done, IMO, correctly. The main character of the first book isn't precisely gay, but it's a huge theme in the books (as the wolfcarls tend to be gay).

After reading those, I went and looked up more by Monette and stumbled across this other series:

Melusine, The Virtu, The Mirador, and Corambis.

The setting is interesting, although again... one of the main characters is straight, the other just-as-main character is markedly not. I really dig both Mildmay and Felix, which is a switch for me since I usually only end up liking one main character of a book enough to really remark on. Several of the side characters are damn neat, too, but I can't say much more about them without spoiling stuff.

Note that all of those recs come with some heavy adult warnings. There's no smut for the sake of smut, but it's involved pretty deep in the plot of all of those, and they definitely don't shy away from darker subject matter therein. Which I dig, because it's used to further the story and doesn't feel cheep to me, but I know not everyone handles it well.

[flipreads]

How about Vintage: A Ghost Story by Steve Berman? (He also edits a gay sf/f anthology, but if you're just interested in novels...)

[shadowgwm]

You can find some good fantasy, paranormal books at the following links:
Some are erotica, but some are not.

http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/

https://spsilverpublishing.com/

[Synergi]

Originally Posted by Aroihkin

*de-lurks* I hope no one minds me bumping an old thread, lol.


I tried this one based off this rec and... kind of disliked it, honestly. And its sequel. :/

Don't get me wrong, the first 2/3 or so of the first book was good! But right around when Big Plot Stuff Happened it just fell flat to me. It was like the author got bored and hit the fast forward button. And then the second book... meh. It didn't even have the interesting setup of the first, IMO.

Just an opinion, though.

As for recs:

I only read the first, I never finished the second. Although It was set up to move into a menage, I tend not to like those. I did like the first book a lot though, and the second book was included free. I thought it had an interesting set up and story.

[wyndslash]

I think Melusine is out of print...? Wanted to get it, and it's not available on kindle either @_@

[RobynJane]

You might try Robert A. Heinlein's "I Will Fear No Evil." Heinlein is the acknowledged master of sci-fi. While this may no be exactly what you're looking for--it is the story of a dying man who advertises for a body into which his mind can be transferred to increase his longevity (the one he gets is a female body)--I enjoyed it. Of course, the fact that I am a trans woman had nothing whatsoever to do with it! lol

[speakingtohe]

Some very good detective stories with gay detectives. My favorite at present is the Donald Strachey series by Richard Stevenson.

The first book got me at the start with Strachey picking up the phone and being told to please hold for Mr. ... He said sure and hung up. After 2 more times the executive type called personally. At this point I knew I was going to like this guy.

And I still do. Great reading whether you are gay or not.

Helen