I got my heart inside a loom

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I start my week again with no sleep. I am having a lot of trouble just existing right now.

Internet hivemind, does anyone have books to recommend for a fourteen-year-old who has just come out as bi and is looking for congenial literature? She reads science fiction and mainstream fiction but not really fantasy, so naturally most of the examples coming to my mind of bisexual main characters or societies where bisexuality is normative are in the wrong genre. I am planning to suggest Ursula K. Le Guin and Phyllis Gotlieb [edit: and Yoon Ha Lee!] and I have no idea what middle-grade/YA looks like these days.

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[akycha]

Melissa Scott has done some lovely sci-fi with bi characters. I really enjoyed Night Sky Mine although I can't remember if the main character identifies as bi; she's some flavor of queer and is a teenager, as I recall. Dreamships and its sequel is also excellent and the main character is a woman involved with a woman; the sequel, Dreaming Metal is also great and has great queer characters.

I also recommend the Murderbot series to everyone right now. The new one is coming out in August! Murderbot identifies as ace, but there are bi and polyromantic and nonbinary and otherwise queer characters all around and it's a really great and fun series.

A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is quite good and there is a happy queer romance in it.

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Murderbot identifies as ace, but there are bi and polyromantic and nonbinary and otherwise queer characters all around and it's a really great and fun series.

Thank you for all of these suggestions! I just realized I should have thought at once of Yoon Ha Lee's Machineries of Empire, which has maybe one straight protagonist in all three books.