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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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[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Since you've mentioned Gwyneth Jones, then also her early novel "Kairos"; there are two gay couples at the heart of it - one female, one male (though if I remember rightly, one of the men is killed and possibly resurrected, so). It's been years since I've read it, but it's important to me because I read it and thought: "oh, I'm queer too. Well then."

There's also Tanith Lee's Lethe collection, "Disturbed By Her Song". The queer women tend to get the better stories in it. Apart from some lazy exoticisation of a black British character in one tale it's a pretty strong book.