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Hey /lit/!

I want to read a good science fiction/fantasy or, well, any kind of book with small amounts of homoeroticism. Sometimes I'm so fed up with all the boring heterosexual literature, that I buy books for LGBT audiences,but I always end up reading hardcore stuff. I'm just so sick of all that porn! I want an interesting book, where the protagonist just happens to be gay or bi, but it's not the main central theme. I'd also be happy to read books with lots of implied homosexual subtext.
Anyone got advice?

>> No.2255089

Lord of the Rings

>> No.2255091

sam delany

>> No.2255097

David Wellington - Thirteen Bullets. It was originally published as a serial novel, so it's free to read on his website. The main character is a lesbian cop.
And he's the only author other than Lovecraft who can scare me.

>> No.2255098

>>2255091
Sounds interesting, do you have a book you'd recommend from him?

>> No.2255101

two serious ladies

>> No.2255134

"In the Hills, the cities" from Books of Blood by Clive Barker.

Brian Keene's "Dead sea" should also have a gay protag.

I read neither of these, they're just something I wanted to read but never did.

>> No.2255182

>>implied homosexual subtext

Henry James's long short story "The Pupil" takes the cake for this.

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2255201

>>2255134
Oh my, I love zombie books!

>> No.2255207

"The Left Hand of Darkness" or "The Telling" by Ursula K. Le Guin - both of these are intellectual sci-fi.
"Ash" by Malinda Lo - lesbian Cinderella story

And since yours truly just finished a project for library school on GLBT themes in sci-fi and fantasy, have some random resources that I found while working on it:

http://www.glbtfantasy.com/
http://booklist.rassaku.net/#POC
http://www.lambdascifi.org/books/recommend.html

>> No.2255227

>>2255207
jw, did you talk about "the world well lost" at all

because if you didn't you should have b/c of my complete cultish devotion to ted sturgeon

>> No.2255268

I'd consider A Separate Peace by John Knowles to be pretty heavy with the implied subtext.