You're listening to all the backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.

I'm your host Danica Ellis. This is episode number 479.5,

and today I have a couple of queer SFF not bellows to recommend for you.

Obviously me recommending queer books is not unusual.

It's more than half of what I read, it's what I love.

I think I recommend it almost every time I'm on

all the backlist but the reason I'm thinking about SFF novellas is that this

year I am helming the ship of the Reed Harder Challenge newsletter.

So if you haven't checked it out, I mean, there's still time.

You could still finish the 2024 Read Harder Challenge if you really applied yourself or if you happen to

coincide with the prompts. I've had a lot of fun writing it and researching and figuring out all of the books I'm going to recommend for each prompt and one of them is Sci-Fi Novellas, which is actually a prompt that I suggested,

because I feel like this is a particular category that has really exploded recently. I think there are a lot more really

interesting sci-fi novelas coming out all the time and there are many that are on my TBR that just came out this year, but of course this is all the backlist.

So I want to talk about some that came out last year or before. I've got one that's a sort of I guess

paranormal romance novella. It is about a Ware Bear fashionista and the other one is an anti-capitalist

sci-fi wacky adventure between exes and I really enjoyed both of them. But before I get

into those recommendations I want to talk about another newsletter another one I

write actually I'm one of the writers and that is the deep dive so if you

like book riot you will like the deep dive the deep dive is basically just Book Riot condensed into one place.

It is our editorial staff and some expert guest writers talking about the things that they're

interested in, the things that they are experts in, it's all things reading.

You get some behind the scenes insights into Book Riot.

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