by msk | Sep 22, 2026 | Mermaids & Ocean Fantasy, Mermen
Try this. Search “mermaid books” and you will drown in results. Lists, subgenres, entire BookTok shelves, gorgeous covers with iridescent tails and hair fanning out like seaweed. Now search “male mermaid” or “merman books.” Go...
by msk | Aug 5, 2026 | Sci Fi, Tropes & Worldbuilding, Uncategorized
There’s a moment in almost every great sci-fi or fantasy story where it happens. The ragtag group of misfits (the ones who bickered for two hundred pages, who had every reason to walk away from each other) realizes they’d burn down the world for one...
by msk | Jul 14, 2026 | Mermaids & Ocean Fantasy
Let’s get one thing out of the way: I love Ariel. Perhaps you do too? Or maybe you’re a secret or not-so-secret Ariel hater. No worries, there is room for you here. But if your entire mental shelf of mermaid books starts and ends with a redhead trading her...
by msk | Jun 19, 2026 | Sci Fi
Here’s the thing about a lot of gay sci-fi adventure books: you can have the dazzling worldbuilding (the high-concept hook, the chase across a dying planet) and still feel like nobody on the page has a heartbeat. Give me the spaceship and the love story, please....
by msk | May 13, 2026 | Book Recommendations, Mermaids & Ocean Fantasy
Every culture with a coastline has a mermaid story. And most of them are nothing like the one you’re picturing. If your mental image of mermaid mythology starts and ends with a redhead singing on a rock, you’re in for a surprise. The real myths are...
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