Asexuality And Fiction Reviews

[spacehawk]

I totally lack time, but I also would like to start doing reviews of works 1) that have asexuality as a theme, 2) have asexual characters, or 3) don't have asexuality specifically as a theme but which might be interesting to review from an asexual perspective anyway (for example, works which have as a theme "sexuality is an intrinsic part of being

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[spacehawk]

Right now I want recommendations of works that are short, good or bad.

I just read the description on Amazon on Necessary Ill -- wow. That's got a lot of problems, yes. But is it related to asexuality, or mainly is it transgender/intersex fail? (Or in that universe, are these one and the same thing?)

I put out a call for recs to an asexuality group list I am on, and got back a surprising number of stories which are trans fail. It seems there is a set of authors who cannot imagine asexuality without also these characters "genderless," which brings us right into trans-fail territory. Because CLEARLY if one doesn't experience sexual attraction, one HAS NO GENDER (and vice versa

[spacehawk]

Yeah, OK, that's several magnitudes of fail more than I have the energy to review right now.

[ada_hoffmann]

My story "How My Best Friend Rania Crashed a Party and Saved the World" is sort of vaguely YA-ish, and has an asexual protagonist. I have an older story which is also about an asexual woman, but I would prefer for you not to review the older one (if you know about it) as it was rather bad, and I know I can do better now.

I also read the protagonist in An Owomoyela's story "And Wash Out By Tides of War" as asexual, and I quite like that story.

[spacehawk]

Thanks!

[ada_hoffmann]

Oh, and the protagonist in "How To Become a Robot in 12 Easy Steps" identifies as "probably asexual". That story also comes with some content warnings, but I am pretty sure you've already read it and linked to it yourself, so, y'know.

[spacehawk]

Yes, I read that story and loved it!