Five SFF Novels With Trans Women Protagonists
Full Fathom Five cover art by Chris McGrath (Tor Books, 2014) Like a lot of trans women of my generation, I grew up reading science fiction and fantasy novels to transport me away from a world where I wasn’t accepted for myself. I chose instead to inhabit worlds where clever downtrodden thieves could shake the foundations of empires, and where great heroes could ride dragons or catapult themselves to the stars. But what I never saw in all of those many alternate worlds of possibility was someone like me. So, I set out to write some. Now, more years later than I’d care to admit, trans wome...