Hell’s Coronary heart by Alexis Corridor (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 anticipate from that tagline, it follows somebody looking down an area monster. On this post-Earth universe, they depend on these creatures for gas. I’ll simply quote writer Ruthanna Emrys’s evaluate: “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.”
