Books like 'The Identity Matrix'
Readers who enjoyed The Identity Matrix by Jack L. Chalker also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Remember Me, Synthetica by K. Aten
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat happens when a woman loses her memory but gains a conscience?Dr. Alexandra Turing is a roboticist whose intellect is unrivaled in the field of artificial intelligence. While science has always come easy, Alexandra struggles to understand emotional cues and responses... -
Lo que pasa es que te quiero: Poemas de amor y desamor by Gloria Fuertes
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPara Gloria Fuertes el amor era algo involuntario, como la poesía o el hipo. Curiosa, melancólica y mordaz, durante toda su vida amó y escribió con un espíritu de libertad y ternura insólito en la España de su época. Le rompieron el corazón mil veces, y mil veces lo recompuso para seguir queriendo... -
Dreamstorm by M.C.A. Hogarth
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJahir and Vasiht’h have spent five years together in practice on Starbase Veta, and their life is everything they’d hoped: their practice is fantastic, their social standing great, and their domestic life a blissful routine... -
Viendra le temps du feu by Wendy Delorme
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Elles étaient toutes brisées et pourtant incassables. Elles existaient ensemble comme un tout solidaire, un orchestre puissant, les organes noués en ordre aléatoire, un grand corps frémissant. Et j'étais l'une d'entre elles." Une société totalitaire aux frontières closes, bordée par un fleuve... -
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Death by Sex Machine by Franny Choi
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPoetry. In Death by Sex Machine fem-surrogate cyborgs of manga and film are used as a force "for understanding personal suppression of language," a series of poems made uncomfortable by both what is said and not said... -
Black Knight by Svetlana R. Ivanova
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAntonina Black, or just Nina, is a wise-mouthed but wounded girl. She is sent to live with her aunt in America. After leaving her homeland Russia, Nina tries to adjust to a new life with her homophobic cousins and American high school. But her life begins to take a strange new turn when an enigmatic girl shows up. Allecra Knight is a gorgeous blonde mystery... -
Radio by Sophia Elaine Hanson, Sophia Slade
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter the traumatic events at the dreaded prison Red Bay, Ronja is hanging by a thread. Whispers trail her through the Belly, carrying rumors of her borderline supernatural voice. Plagued by nightmares and haunted by the memories of those she could not save, she clings to the promise that her gift will soon become the weapon of the Anthem... -
Off The Written Path by Natalie Debrabandere
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSOMETIMES THE MORE YOU RUN, THE BETTER YOU’LL BE FOUNDCommunity rescue pilot, Kai Walker, has learned the hard way that needing anyone can be dangerous. Appreciated by all, she is known by few. Her intimate relationships also remain short, sweet, and superficial. Her life may be empty, but it is safe, and good enough.Science-fiction author, Eleanor St James, needs peace and quiet to work... -
The Vindication by C.J. Cherryh
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA compelling heroine…a future as detailed as that of Herbert's Dune…and finely orchestrated suspense right up to the end. Strongly recommended... -
Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones by Torrey Peters
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the future, everyone will be trans. So says Lexi. She's a charismatic trans woman furious with the way she sees her trans friends treated by society and resentful of the girl who spurned her love... -
Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction by Joshua Whitehead
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThis exciting and groundbreaking fiction anthology showcases a number of new and emerging 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer Indigenous) writers from across Turtle Island. These visionary authors show how queer Indigenous communities can bloom and thrive through utopian narratives that detail the vivacity and strength of 2SQness throughout its plight in the maw of settler colonialism's histories... -
14/7. División de alternos by Pamela Stupia
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCinco años después de la fusión de ejes, Cielo, Mara, Guillermina, Bianca y Agustín reciben un misterioso mensaje por parte de la sede central de ODA: el Frente Alterno busca una gema ancestral que podría permitirles terminar con los Alternos que no se sumen a su régimen... -
The Zanari Inheritance (Children of Zanar, #1) by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKaya Trevorny’s world came to an end in the student welfare office of Abertine University. The colony where she had grown up, her family, was gone, dead under circumstances the authorities seemed keen to hide. To find the truth, Kaya must team up with a mercenary and a rag-tag group of smugglers. And the truth is something which will change her life forever... -
Fits Like a Glove: A Velvet Glove Tale by Sean Michael
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHercules is the owner of the Velvet Glove, the premier men's bdsm club in the galaxy. He's made sure to hire the best people for their jobs, from the cleaners to the trainers. It's exclusive, it's hot and it's all his. Malachi is the club's main trainer and an extraordinary top; he was handpicked by Hercules. The man has a secret though, one that Hercules discovers and shares with him... -
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Becoming Elektra by Christian Handel
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSie bestimmen, wer du bistWenn dein Leben eine Lüge ist ... Als die junge und schöne Elektra Hamilton bei einem Reitunfall ums Leben kommt, erhält Isabel ein unerwartetes Angebot. Sie, die Elektra wie aus dem Gesicht geschnitten ist, soll deren Platz einnehmen. Sie muss lediglich für immer verschweigen, wer sie wirklich ist... -
Reinventing Lindsey by Maggie Brown
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStudying the past hasn’t prepared Daisy Parker—anthropologist-turned-matchmaker—for her latest client. Finding Lindsey Jamieson-Ford a life partner isn’t exactly a simple exercise. Not only hasn’t Lindsey dated for years, the prickly reclusive scientist relates better with her robots than with people. Lindsey has no idea what matchmaking involves when she hires Daisy... -
The Barriers by Katie French
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook Five in the best-selling young adult dystopian series, The Breeders Riley hasn't seen her boyfriend Clay or her nine-year-old brother Ethan for two months. Between violent road gangs and ongoing clashes between the Breeders and the Free Colonies, are they even still alive? But Riley will never stop looking... -
Bajo el metal by Irene Morales
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJapón, 2304.Hotaro e Ichiro son dos mecatrónicos de los bajos fondos de la desértica ciudad de Tokio. Su fama de aceptar cualquier encargo, por truculento o retorcido que sea, lleva a un capo de la mafia a proponerles un nuevo y jugoso trabajo: arreglar y actualizar al último neómano del país, un androide ilegal al que planea subastar entre las altas esferas... -
Your Body is Not Your Body by L.C. von Hessen, Rain Corbyn
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEXTREME CONDITIONS DEMAND EXTREME RESPONSES.Over thirty creators from the Trans/Gender Nonconforming communities come together to voice their rage, defiance and fearlessness in the New Weird Horror tradition that Tenebrous Press exemplifies.A centaur seeks illicit surgery in an alien bodily modification club... -
Depart, Depart! by Sim Kern
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen an unprecedented hurricane devastates the city of Houston, Noah Mishner finds shelter in the Dallas Mavericks’ basketball arena. Though he finds community among other queer refugees, Noah fears his trans and Jewish identities put him at risk with certain "capital-T" Texans. His fears take form when he starts seeing visions of his great- grandfather Abe, who fled Nazi Germany as a boy... -
Ninguém nasce herói by Eric Novello
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNum futuro em que o Brasil é liderado por um fundamentalista religioso, o Escolhido, o simples ato de distribuir livros na rua é visto como rebeldia... -
The Betrayal by C.J. Cherryh
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe first part of C.J. Cherryh's award-winning triad introduces the planet and complex politics of Cyteen, part of the Alliance/Union universe. Resources are limited and the scientific compound of Reseune, which produces computer-trained clones called azis, is a major power center. Reseune's lead scientist, the fierce and cruel Dr. Ariane Emory, has dominated Cyteen's political scene for decades... -
The Hands We're Given by O.E. Tearmann
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsAidan Headly never wanted to be the man giving orders. That's fine with the Democratic State Force base he's been assigned to command: they don't like to take orders. Nicknamed the Wildcards, they used to be the most effective base against the seven Corporations owning the former United States in a war that has lasted over half a century... -
Space for Growth by Emily Antoinette
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen all your friends are pairing up with the alien partners of their dreams, it’s hard not to feel left behind. I’m as single as ever, working my boring desk job and spending most of my time alone.So when I meet an intriguing alien who invites me back to his ship, I wonder if maybe it’s finally my turn for love... -
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Infiltration by T.S. Paul
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAthena Lee is the new Martian Ambassador but she is at odds with the old one. So much so that she is in a jail cell on charges of insubordination and treason, again. Visions of torture and persecution have her worried. Outside the Embassy, Dar is frantic with worry and has put a team together to storm the Embassy and free her. This comes of the Eve of change for the known Galaxy... -
PSYCHO NYMPH EXILE by Porpentine Charity Heartscape
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsgurowave novella about a disgraced biomech pilot and her girlfriend, an ex-magical... -
La invención de Morel / El gran Serafín by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEl argentino Adolfo Bioy Casares, nacido en 1914, tiene en su haber una larga y consistente labor literaria finalmente reconocida al concedérsele el Premio Cervantes en 1990. En el presente volumen se ofrecen dos de sus obras más características, la novela La invención de Morel y la colección de cuentos cortos El gran Serafín... -
E Pluribus Unicorn by Theodore Sturgeon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYou are about to enter fantastic worlds beyond your wildest imaginings--worlds of mystery and monster, terror and ethereal love, sudden death and miraculous life, jet-propelled shivers and humor.On this incredible, awesome journey you will meet:• a strange, yet exquisitely beautiful and profoundly wise, race of.. -
Midnight Horizon by Daniel José Older
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis is an Alternate Edition of Book ISBN: 9781368060677Two hundred years before the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, in the era of the glorious High Republic, the Jedi are the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy! Another exciting young adult adventure featuring Jedi and Jedi Padawans as they fight the nefarious villains known as the Nihil!The New York Times bestselling series...Categorized as:
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Machine's Last Testament by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTo give humanity peace, the artificial intelligence Samsara will wage an eternal war . . .In a universe torn by combat, Samsara's world is the final haven that refugees will pay any price to enter. At the Selection Bureau, Suzhen Tang upholds the AI's will and grants citizenship to those deemed worthy... -
Knot All is Whole: A Lunarcrest City Omegaverse by Holly Monroe
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAthena Valentine always wanted an Omega.Atlas Cassidy just wanted to save them.But what we ask for isn’t always what we receive.When Atlas and Athena wake up caged across from each other in an abandoned warehouse after being captured and locked away, the two Betas make a survive and escape.Together.The experiments take their toll, and their opportunities for escape are slim... -
The Blackwing War by K.B. Spangler
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThree thousand years ago, the Deep appeared without warning. This alien life form was quickly put to service teleporting people and cargo across great distances, which allowed mass colonization throughout the galaxy. It has also allowed Lancaster, the organization which controls access to the Deep, to grow wealthy and powerful... -
Lightspeed Magazine, June 2015: Queers Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue by Seanan McGuire, John Chu
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales... -
Potato Surprise by Angel Martinez
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBefore Ness, before Corny, before Leopold and Heckle and Mac, there was just Shax and Verin and a newly stolen, er, acquired cargo ship. Join Shax on his first adventure in space in which a pampered demon prince has a lot to learn.When a steel trap of celestial and infernal politics threatens to close around them, Shax and Verin flee Earth’s system in a stolen ship, leaving everything behind... -
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Dark Reflections by Samuel R. Delany
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsArnold Hawley, a gay, African–American poet, has lived in NYC for most of his life. Dark Reflections traces Hawley's life in three sections — in reverse order. Part one: Hawley, at 50 years old, wins the an award for his sixth book of poems. Part two explores Hawley's unhappy marriage, while the final section recalls his college days... -
The Shape of My Name by Nino Cipri
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Shape of My Name by Nino Cipri is a time travel story about what it means to truly claim yourself... -
Deep Merge by Linda North
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKaesah, a geneticist from an all-female species living on the other side of the galaxy, is stranded on Earth when her mate, who was vital in piloting their starship, dies. Kaesah must report the disturbing events on Earth that could impact the survival of her species... -
Bug Week by Airini Beautrais
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A group of white-collar deadbeats attend a swinger’s party in the era of drunk Muldoon. A pervasive smell seeps through the walls of a German housing block. A seabird performs at an open-mic night... -
Magda und Ben by Thomas Thiemeyer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDer Kampf der Geschlechter steuert seinem Höhepunkt entgegen. Als die Frauenarmee immer tiefer ins Herz der Männerstadt vorrückt, treffen ein alter Mann und eine alte Frau aufeinander - und machen eine unglaubliche Entdeckung: Magda, die oberste Heilerin, und Benedikt, der Prior der Abtei, waren vor fünfundsechzig Jahren ein junges Paar, das durch den Virus auseinandergerissen wurde... -
the earthquake room by Davey Davis
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the near future, Oakland is haunted by natural disaster and political collapse. When k realizes that she has infected her girlfriend, bea, with a disease, she loses herself in a masochistic quest for atonement, leaving bea to contend with her fears about an increasingly precarious world by herself... -
Imperial Subversion by T.S. Paul
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe revolution is over and the corrupt government officials are in prison. A Secret Society called the Cabal has raise up it's head and has one goal, control of the Galaxy. Athena Lee and her family find themselves caught in the center of this new conflict when the Cabal tries to take over her planet. This secret group has subverted the military who believe if they can't have it no one can... -
Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel by Julian K. Jarboe
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this debut collection of body-horror fairy tales and mid-apocalyptic Catholic cyberpunk, memory and myth, loss and age, these are the tools of storyteller Jarboe, a talent in the field of queer fabulism... -
Little Birds: A collection of short stories by Hannah Lee Kidder
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis best-selling debut of short stories is a collection of glimpses into some of the darkest corners of our lives–the lies we tell ourselves, the ways we hurt others, the painful truths we pretend to face. Each story is a raw, unflinchingly human experience... -
Driftglass by Samuel R. Delany
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhy?From Ganymede to Gomorrah, a bizarre breed of planet-hopping humans sell their sexless, neutered bodies... so that others may explore the outer limits of sexual perversion.Far beneath the surface of the planet earth, a doomed architect lives out the rest of his years in a hideous life-sustaining coffin... in a world where not dying is the ultimate form of punishment... -
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The Rule of All by Ashley Saunders, Leslie Saunders
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs America’s twenty-first-century revolution reaches its endgame, twin sisters must outrun, and outlive, the Common enemy.Outlaw twin sisters Ava and Mira Goodwin were born to defy Texas’s tyrannical and oppressive Governor Roth. They inspired millions across the country to liberate themselves and fight to live free under the new Common rule... -
Doctor Who: Love and War by Paul Cornell
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOn a planet called Heaven, all hell is breaking loose.Heaven is a paradise for both humans and Draconians - a place of rest in more ways than one. The Doctor comes here on a trivial mission - to find a book, or so he says - and Ace, wandering alone in the city, becomes involved with a charismatic Traveller called Jan. But the Doctor is strenuously opposed to the romance... -
Bending The Landscape: Science Fiction by Nicola Griffith, J.K. Potter
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEdited by world-renowned lesbian fantasy author Nicola Griffith and fantasy publisher Stephen Pagel, this groundbreaking anthology of all-original science fiction stories brings together some of mainstream's and science fiction's most notable writers -- gay and straight -- creating worlds where time and place and sexuality are alternative to the empirical environment... -
Brännmärkt by Lizette Edfeldt
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsVänskap har aldrig varit så dödlig. Efter flera hundra år av översvämningar, orkaner, epidemier och krig tvingas återstoden av mänskligheten att hålla hårt i sina resurser för att inte gå under. Befolkningen är inordnad i ett hierarkiskt system, där bara den som fötts som Alfa kan göra sin röst hörd.En värld, fyra zoner, tio rang. Detta är Imperiet... -
Highway Bodies by Alison Evans
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWho will you rely on in the zombie apocalypse?*Bodies on the TV, explosions, barriers, and people fleeing. No access to social media. And a dad who’ll suddenly bite your head off – literally. These teens have to learn a new resilience…Members of a band wield weapons instead of instruments.A pair of siblings find there’s only so much you can joke about, when the menace is this strong... -
Unconventional at Best by Carol Lynne, Amber Kell
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUnconventional At Best: A New Normal by Carol Lynne Less than a year after the death of his wife, musician Charlie Foster agreed to perform at a convention in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He thought getting away from New York for a few days would be good for him, but he didn't expect to see the first person he'd ever fallen in love with...
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