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Science fiction and fantasy books by Asian authors! Because not all SFF is by white men, and I want to shout about some awesome books by authors of color. I cannot stress enough that this is only a small sample of the books out there! I didn’t have nearly enough space to include all the marvelous Asian authors writing either in the English language or who have books translated into English.
Actually, speaking of translation, Ken Liu (whose short story collection is above) does a lot of work translating Chinese science fiction into English. Also, Clarkesworld is particularly good about publishing translated stories from China.
Obviously, most of the authors featured here have more than one book! I was sticking to one book per author so that I can fit as many people in as possible.
You can add more authors in the reblogs and replies! However, please only suggest Asian authors, not white authors writing Asian characters.
If you like this post, I have another that’s for queer SFF by authors of color.
Below the cut you will find:
- A list of all the books included above with links to Goodreads
- A list of some free short stories you can read legally online
- Information on trigger warnings for some select titles
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I’ve done some Twitter threads on this topic, so thought it might be nice to do a Tumblr post too. One of my pet peeves is when people act like adult fantasy (or sci-fi for that matter) is just a straight white dude thing and that diversity only exists in young adult fantasy. That’s such a disservice to all the authors of marginalized identities currently writing adult fantasy!
Authors and books below the cut, including links to Goodreads. I’m not providing trigger warnings (if I make the post too long Tumblr starts freaking out about it), but you can use the search function on Goodreads reviews to find more specifics.
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