Hell’s Heart by Alexis Hall (March 26, 2026)
The successor to Gideon the Ninth‘s “lesbian necromancers in space” tagline is here: this is “sapphic Moby Dick in space!” You likely know Alexis Hall from their queer romances, like Boyfriend Material and A Lady for a Duke, and this is their sci-fi debut. As you’d expect from that tagline, it follows someone hunting down a space monster. In this post-Earth universe, they rely on these creatures for fuel. I’ll just quote author Ruthanna Emrys’s review: “This is Hall’s best, weirdest, and most snarkily delightful book yet. Whether you like even-more-queer Moby Dick retellings, space whales, disaster bi drama, Jovian gaslamp science fiction, razor-sharp satire of capitalist theology, Locked-Tomb-style obscure jokes, Cthulhu cultist crew members, thematically-important infodumps about xenobiology—or better yet all of those things tied together in intricate perfection—this will be your jam.”