9 Top science fiction books like Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel by Julian K. Jarboe

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Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

By: Julian K. Jarboe

3.93

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

In this debut collection of body-horror fairy tales and mid-apocalyptic Catholic cyberpunk, memory …

"Eventually, even Pavlov found that when he heard a bell he had the overwhelming urge to feed a dog."

-Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

"Eventually, even Pavlov found that when he heard a bell he had the overwhelming urge to feed a dog."

-Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

"God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason he made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine: so that humanity might share in the act of creation."

-Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

"God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason he made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine: so that humanity might share in the act of creation."

-Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

If you liked the science fiction plot in Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel by Julian K. Jarboe , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. A Song for Quiet (Persons Non Grata, #2)

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.78

Format: 64 pages, Kindle Edition

Deacon James is a rambling bluesman straight from Georgia, a black man with troubles that he can't … read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's A Song for Quiet (Persons Non Grata, #2) book and Julian K. Jarboe's Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Blues is about wanting and not having, about putting that need into someone else's hands for a little while so you can pause and breathe."

-Cassandra Khaw, A Song for Quiet (Persons Non Grata, #2)

"You can’t murder that which is eternal, that which will lie until death itself passes. But you can slow it, cripple it, hobble it. You can hurt your nightmares; it’s a two-way street."

-Cassandra Khaw, A Song for Quiet (Persons Non Grata, #2)

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2. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more

Similar categories in Larry Mitchell's The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions book and Julian K. Jarboe's Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

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3. Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones

By: Torrey Peters

4.12

Format: None pages,

In the future, everyone will be trans. So says Lexi. She's a charismatic trans woman furious with t… read more

Similar categories in Torrey Peters's Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones book and Julian K. Jarboe's Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • queer
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4. A Safe Girl to Love

By: Casey Plett

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Eleven unique short stories that stretch from a rural Canadian Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar … read more

Similar categories in Casey Plett's A Safe Girl to Love book and Julian K. Jarboe's Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1) by Emma Mieko Candon

5. The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1)

By: Emma Mieko Candon

3.31

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko Candon's b… read more

Similar categories in Emma Mieko Candon's The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1) book and Julian K. Jarboe's Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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6. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) book and Julian K. Jarboe's Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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7. Heart of Stone

By: Johannes T. Evans

4.17

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

The year is 1764, and following a glowing recommendation from his last employer, Henry Coffey, vamp… read more

Similar categories in Johannes T. Evans's Heart of Stone book and Julian K. Jarboe's Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"We see the same colours, Mr Essex,"

-Johannes T. Evans, Heart of Stone

"Henry, you could not pressure a page to fold."

-Johannes T. Evans, Heart of Stone

"One drunken night does not a madness make, Essex."

-Johannes T. Evans, Heart of Stone

"I am not by nature a dishonest man," Henry said softly, "but there are such times that the truth will not do."

-Johannes T. Evans, Heart of Stone

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8. Boys Weekend

By: Mattie Lubchansky

4.03

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning cartoonist and editor at The Nib, a hilarious trans-"final girl" horror grap… read more

Similar categories in Mattie Lubchansky's Boys Weekend book and Julian K. Jarboe's Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • queer
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9. We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

By: Lou Sullivan

4.76

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Drawn from Lou Sullivan’s meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguab… read more

Similar categories in Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan book and Julian K. Jarboe's Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"I don't even know if there was anyone that's ever felt as I do.. how they coped, what they did...how do I find out what someone like me does?"

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"A big fear of mine is that I will die before the gender professionals acknowledge that someone like me exists, and then I really won't exist to prove them wrong."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"In a lot of ways I think the problem is I spend too much time seeing myself though other people's eyes and not really being in my body and enjoying myself and relaxing in my image."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"I finally said, "Let's put it this way: I'd rather lose you than stop my shots.""You mean that chemical is more important to you than I am?""No, I am more important to me than you are."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

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10. Defekt (LitenVerse, #2)

By: Nino Cipri

4.09

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

Derek is LitenVärld's most loyal employee. He lives and breathes the job, from the moment he wakes … read more

Similar categories in Nino Cipri's Defekt (LitenVerse, #2) book and Julian K. Jarboe's Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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11. A Dream of a Woman

By: Casey Plett

4.31

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Casey Plett's 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction… read more

Similar categories in Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman book and Julian K. Jarboe's Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Making Love with the Land: Essays by Joshua Whitehead

12. Making Love with the Land: Essays

By: Joshua Whitehead

4.11

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more

Similar categories in Joshua Whitehead's Making Love with the Land: Essays book and Julian K. Jarboe's Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

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13. The Chromatic Fantasy

By: H.A .

4.40

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

A gorgeously drawn graphic novel reminiscent of stained glass and illuminated manuscripts, telling … read more

Similar categories in H.A .'s The Chromatic Fantasy book and Julian K. Jarboe's Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"[Jules] No!! No! No! No! I want to be happy!! I want to love and be loved!! I want to feel safe!! I want to be someone who doesn't deserve it!! I want my life and my body and my soul!!"

-H.A ., The Chromatic Fantasy

"[guard] 'Before we torture you, please sign the release.' [legal form] 'I shall not say "ah, my back really needed that!" when being drawn over the rack. (we've all heard it before. you're not origin…"

-H.A ., The Chromatic Fantasy

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14. Walking Practice

By: Dolki Min

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation … read more

Similar categories in Dolki Min's Walking Practice book and Julian K. Jarboe's Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I’ve invested close to ten years of my time figuring out what exactly their criteria are. My conclusion is that there are no such criteria."

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"Criteria are like glass. As long as they are respected and held without dropping them, they’ll stay solid and won’t break. I made myself complicit in humanity’s scam and adapted myself to the local e…"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"Do I exist in the same physical space as other people? Can I really seek joy and pleasure together with them? Why does the path become narrower the further I walk down it? Why is every place I go to …"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"He’s a real fucking dog. Ah, forgive me. I’ve accidentally lumped dogs in with the likes of him. I would like to give a sincere apology to all the dogs of Earth. I can almost hear their complaints no…"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

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15. The Woods All Black

By: Lee Mandelo

3.81

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all … read more

Similar categories in Lee Mandelo's The Woods All Black book and Julian K. Jarboe's Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Spill enough blood on it, and the earth was bound to go strange."

-Lee Mandelo, The Woods All Black

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16. Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

By: Nino Cipri

3.66

Format: 103 pages, Kindle Edition

MP3 CD Format Nino Cipri's Finna is a rambunctious, touching story that blends all the horrors the … read more

Similar categories in Nino Cipri's Finna (LitenVerse, #1) book and Julian K. Jarboe's Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"We're here to tell you what to do if a worm-hole opens up on your shift!"

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

"Getting lost for lack of a better option loses its appeal after a while."

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

"It was the most obnoxiously heterosexual thing Ava had seen since the last St. Patrick's Day parade."

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

"My boss, Tricia, always said tat we were a family. I should have realised she meant that I would have to put up with constant bullshit."

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

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17. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

By: Chen Chen

4.15

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more

Similar categories in Chen Chen's Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency book and Julian K. Jarboe's Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

  • short stories
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"

-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"

-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

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18. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and Julian K. Jarboe's Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • queer
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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19. Love Code (Galactic Love, #2)

By: Ann Aguirre

3.72

Format: None pages, ebook

He's cute. He's cranky. His code is sleek as hell. What's an amnesiac AI doing in a place like thi… read more

Similar categories in Ann Aguirre's Love Code (Galactic Love, #2) book and Julian K. Jarboe's Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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20. Fruiting Bodies: Stories

By: Kathryn Harlan

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In stories that beckon and haunt, Fruiting Bodies ranges confidently from the fantastical to the go… read more

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  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
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21. Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

By: Julian K. Jarboe

3.93

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

In this debut collection of body-horror fairy tales and mid-apocalyptic Catholic cyberpunk, memory … read more

Similar categories in Julian K. Jarboe's Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel book and Julian K. Jarboe's Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Eventually, even Pavlov found that when he heard a bell he had the overwhelming urge to feed a dog."

-Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

"God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason he made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine: so that humanity might share in the act of creation."

-Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

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A Song for Quiet (Persons Non Grata, #2)

Cassandra Khaw

3.78

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Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

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The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1)

Emma Mieko Candon

3.31

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Nghi Vo

4.24

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Franny Choi

3.99

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Megan Fernandes

4.17

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