Collection Criteria:
- Published in English
- Classified as science fiction or fantasy
- Contains elements of diversity
Exclusions:
- TV show spinoffs
- Anything younger than YA
- Blatantly pornographic covers or works written to be erotica rather than stories
- Short stories that aren't in a collection (this might change)
Other Notes:
- For comics, I only include collected volumes, not individual issues
- My collection of comics needs a lot of work; I have very few so far. Suggestions are appreciated!
- There are a few series that I think are too long to include every book, but I've added the first.
- Anthologies are difficult to categorize. I might be missing tags for some of the short stories. Contact me if you see anything I've missed!
Tag Descriptions:Gay: Gay male characters and M/M pairings
Lesbian: Gay female characters and F/F pairings
Bisexual: Bisexual characters: men, women, and others who are interested in relationships with same and different sexes/genders
Asexual: Characters who, whether or not they have romantic relationships, are not interested in sex
Transgender: Characters who identify as a gender different from the one associated with their physical sex
Nonbinary: Characters of a gender that isn't male or female. Can overlap with transgender and genderqueer.
Genderqueer: Gender aspects that don't easily fit under nonbinary, such as gender/sex-shifting, multiple sexes in a species, or multiple genders in a culture
Race: Non-white characters, multiple races in a setting, or situations where a character is a racial minority. Not counted in noneuropean settings where everybody is the same race.
Noneuropean: Settings that aren't based on white Europe or North America
Queered Culture: Culture with norms other than male-dominance, heterosexuality, and the male/female binary
Multiple Culture: Multiple cultures interacting
All-Female: Worlds or societies with only women. A subtype of queered culture
Disability: Disabled characters. Chronic illness counts for this tag.
Poly: Relationships between more than two people with the consent of all
Pronouns: Use of nonbinary pronous such as they/them/theirs, se/hir/hirs, or xe/xir/xirs
Class: Issues of class difference and privilege raised in story
Race/region tags are still under construction, but displaying in the Tags box. "QUESTION" is for books where I'm still unsure. FPOC stands for "Fantasy People of Color" and refers to any fantasy race without a direct "Earth" analogue, such as most of the characters in the Earthsea series (black-skinned but not based on any specific culture), or the Kaled'a'in, Shin'a'in, and Tayledras from the Heralds of Valdemar series (based on a combination of various Native American and Mongolian cultures)
