Gollancz’s Pride Reading List
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This Pride, we wanted to share our favourite SFF books with either LGBTQIA+ characters or that are written by LGBTQIA+ authors. We are committed to amplifying diverse voices and enriching genre fiction with stories outside the mainstream. From Elizabeth May and Laura Lam’s Sunday Times bestseller Seven Devils, to Richard K. Morgan’s A Land Fit for Heroes trilogy, we have a host of brilliant fiction to help diversify your bookshelf.
- *THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLER*
Seven resistance fighters will free the galaxy from the ruthless Empire – or die trying.
After Eris faked her death, she thought she had left her old life as Princess Discordia – heir to the galaxy's most ruthless empire – behind. But joining the Novantaen Resistance, an organisation opposed to the Empire's voracious expansion, throws her right back into the fray.
Resistance fighter pilot Clo has been given a mission: infiltrate an Empire spaceship ferrying deadly cargo to gain vital intelligence. A task made all the more difficult when she's forced to partner with an old enemy – Princess Discordia herself, Eris.
They discover more than they bargained for on the ship: fugitives with first-hand knowledge of the Empire's inner workings. With this information, these women might just bring the Empire to its knees. But the clock is ticking: Eris's brother Damocles, new heir to the throne, plans to disrupt a peace summit with the only remaining free alien people, ensuring the Empire's total domination. Unless this band of unlikely rebels stops him, millions will die . . .
‘A modern horror classic from one of the most exciting writers in the field today’ Starburst Magazine
‘An astonishing debut from Jonathan Sims. A wonderful new twist on an age-old genre. 5 out of 5’ SFX
A Haunted house tour-de-force from the creator of The Magnus Archives podcast.
A dinner party is held in the penthouse of a multimillion-pound development. All the guests are strangers - even to their host, the billionaire owner of the building.
None of them know why they were selected to receive his invitation. Whether privileged or deprived, they share only one thing in common - they've all experienced a shocking disturbance within the building's walls.
By the end of the night, their host is dead, and none of the guests will say what happened. His death has remained one of the biggest unsolved mysteries - until now.
But are you ready for their stories?
Jonathan Sims' debut is a darkly twisted, genre-bending journey through one of the most innovative haunted houses you'll ever dare to enter.
Paris in the aftermath of the Great Magicians War. Its streets are lined with haunted ruins, Notre-Dame is a burnt-out shell, and the Seine runs black, thick with ashes and rubble. Yet life continues among the wreckage. The citizens retain their irrepressible appetite for novelty and distraction, and The Great Houses still vie for dominion over France's once grand capital.
House Silverspires, previously the leader of those power games, now lies in disarray. Its
magic is ailing; its founder, Morningstar, has been missing for decades; and now something
from the shadows stalks its people inside their very own walls.
Within the House, three very different people must come together: a naive but powerful Fallen, an alchemist with a self-destructive addiction, and a resentful young man wielding spells from the Far East. They may be Silverspires' salvation; or the architects of its last, irreversible fall…
Four destinies collide in a unique fantasy world of war and wonders, where empire is won with enchanted steel and magical animal companions fight alongside their masters in battle.
Tala – A soldier with a curse.
Jimuro – A prince with a debt.
Xiulan – A detective with a grudge.
Lee – A thief with a broken heart.
This band of rogues and royals should all be enemies, but they unite for a common purpose: to defeat an unstoppable killer who defies the laws of magic. In this battle, they will forge unexpected bonds of friendship and love that will change their lives – and begin to change the world.
The cult classic fantasy of manners.
On the treacherous streets of Riverside, a man lives and dies by the sword. Even the nobles on the Hill turn to duels to settle their disputes. Within this elite, dangerous world, Richard St. Vier is the undisputed master, as skilled as he is ruthless — until a death by the sword is met with outrage instead of awe, and the city discovers that the line between hero and villain can be altered in the blink of an eye.
Hailed by critics as 'a bravura performance' (Locus) and 'witty, sharp-eyed, [and] full of interesting people' (Newsday), this acclaimed novel, filled with remarkable plot twists and unexpected humor, takes fantasy to an unprecedented level of elegant writing and scintillating wit. Award-winning author Ellen Kushner has created a world of unforgettable characters whose political ambitions, passionate love affairs, and age-old rivalries collide with deadly results.
Ringil, the hero of the bloody slaughter at Gallows Gap is a legend to all who don't know him and a twisted degenerate to those that do. A veteran of the wars against the lizards, he makes a living from telling credulous travellers of his exploits. Until one day he is pulled away from his life and into the depths of the Empire's slave trade. Where he will discover a secret infinitely more frightening than the trade in lives.
Archeth — pragmatist, cynic and engineer, the last of her race — is called from her work at the whim of the most powerful man in the empire and sent to its farthest reaches to investigate a demonic incursion against the empire's borders.
Egar Dragonbane, steppe-nomad, one-time fighter for the empire finds himself entangled in a small-town battle between common sense and religious fervour. But out in the wider world there is something on the move far more alien than any of his tribe's petty gods.
Anti-social, anti-heroic, and decidedly irritated, all three of them are about to be sent unwillingly forth into a vicious, vigorous and thoroughly unsuspecting fantasy world. Called upon by an empire that owes them everything and gave them nothing.
*THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD-WINNING NOVEL*
In an America where the miraculous is par for the course, where magic and myths are as real as shopping malls and television game shows, Jennifer Mazdan listens to the modern storytellers recite the tales of the Founders.
But when strange things start to happen and Jennie becomes pregnant — from a dream — she enters a struggle which threatens her own life and causes her to question everything she has ever learned.