Fiction:
Welcome to Boy.net (Earth’s Shadow Book 1) by Lyda Morehouse is set in Earth’s solar system a good while after the Archangel books, long enough that most people thing Earth is largely abandoned; also, you don’t have to have read (or remember) the prior books to enjoy this. Mars is now the dominant power, and the people farther out avoid their area of influence, and their ENForcer space marines, as much as possible. This book follows a lesbian couple, one from the science-focused and culturally progressive Moon, the other a trans defector who fled the ENForcers, who want her back to reprogram both mentally and physically via nanobots and her cybernetic enhancements. Though the opening felt like a held breath, the plot swiftly starts rolling and doesn’t really stop through a sequence of different environments and encounters with fun, quirky secondary characters. It’s a very inclusive book, with disabled characters who use cybernetic enhancements, a character with dyslexia, a Deaf character, and people with a range of genders and sexual preferences. Also, at a key moment activists show up and I love that for this story. We need more books showing activism happening in different ways. This is from a small press, so I hope it gains traction and we get more in this series!
Fanfiction:
Inappropriate Connections by Maykenfan is an epic imagined future of the Vorkosigan clan, featuring the children of Miles and Ekaterin, Gregor and Laisa, etc. as well as Nikki Vorsoisson, and the relationship of Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan and Oliver Jole. Note nobody dies! I was wary because Miles is in poor health throughout, but he was still going strong at the end of the story.
Catch Your Voice by lavvyan is a fairly old school Hawkeye/Coulson slash story with fluff and pining in which, again, nobody dies.
A Loose Thread by FortinbrasFTW is an Andor sequel in which Kino Loy survives! And Cassian Andor finds him. This had some beautiful, thoughtful prose.
REBEL Y/N? by skitzofreak for RoverKelevra is a story for those who love robots and artificial intelligences in spaaaace. Cassian Andor and Jyn Erso are on an infiltration mission and suborn a tiny cleaning robot. And things escalate from there. The robots are characters, and points of view characters, and I was invested in them. Warning: a couple of the robots are destroyed, but their legacy lives on.
Not the Destination by KiaraSayre is a lovely Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson romance road trip.
Let Me Come Home by prosopopeya for marbleflan is a Supernatural AU which has no supernatural elements; instead, Dean Winchester works at a garage and has foster kids, while Castiel Novak, who’s had a rough time since being disowned by his religious family, has come to town after his niece is left in the foster system. This story is for those who like stories that have teenagers and lots of sweetness and struggle while trying to find a home.
