There are no stars at all for some of us

[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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[nnozomi.livejournal.com]

If you don't mind a comment from a random passerby: how about Melissa Scott's SF? Most of her heroines tend to be lesbian or far-future equivalent thereof, and there is relatively little killing off of anybody--or, when queer people do die, as in Burning Bright, there are enough other queer characters around that it's "somebody died," not "the LGBT character died." My favorites are the duology Dreamships and Dreaming Metal, where now that I think of it there seem to be practically no het relationships at all among the various main characters. (Also spectacular world-building.)

[sovay]

If you don't mind a comment from a random passerby: how about Melissa Scott's SF?

I don't mind random comments at all. Thank you for joining the conversation!

My favorites are the duology Dreamships and Dreaming Metal, where now that I think of it there seem to be practically no het relationships at all among the various main characters. (Also spectacular world-building.)

I've read Melissa Scott's A Choice of Destinies, The Armor of Light, and two of her Astreiant novels with Lisa A. Barnett (although I can't find my hardcover of Point of Dreams at the moment, which is disconcerting; I went looking for it the night I wrote this post), but none of the ones you mention. I do not require het relationships and spectacular worldbuilding is a plus. I'll look for them!

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I was just about to recommend Scott, being in the process of catching up on LJ. Thanks for beating me to it!