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[sovay]

Hey! Internet! I've just been talking about how much it sucks when a novel kills off its queer characters. Especially when there's, like, one of them and they're the one who doesn't make it. Can someone point me toward a list of books where that doesn't happen? Spoilers, whatever.

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[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

In each book in the series, the characters are essentially the same people reborn into different bodies. So the person who was a female prophet/priestess in Black Ships becomes the male slave-turned-soldier of Stealing Fire, then becomes one of Cleopatra's handmaidens in Hand of Isis...and all the people around this person are also the same. Their friend becomes their parent, their lover becomes their nemesis, etc. Recognizable yet different, the core the same, everything else changed.

[sovay]

Their friend becomes their parent, their lover becomes their nemesis, etc. Recognizable yet different, the core the same, everything else changed.

What a fascinating conceit. I will have to check these out.