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*''The Water Outlaws'', a fantasy epic inspired by the 14th-century Chinese novel ''Water Margin'', is by [[genderqueer]] author [[S. L. Huang]] and has "a high percentage of gender nonconformity and of gender identities that in modern times we would call trans or nonbinary."<ref name="wateroutlaws">{{Cite web |title=S. L. Huang’s New Take on the Most Famous Chinese Novel You’ve Never Read in English: Announcing The Water Outlaws |work=Tor.com |date=15 October 2020 |access-date=7 November 2020 |url= https://www.tor.com/2020/10/15/book-announcements-s-l-huang-the-water-outlaws/}}</ref> | *''The Water Outlaws'', a fantasy epic inspired by the 14th-century Chinese novel ''Water Margin'', is by [[genderqueer]] author [[S. L. Huang]] and has "a high percentage of gender nonconformity and of gender identities that in modern times we would call trans or nonbinary."<ref name="wateroutlaws">{{Cite web |title=S. L. Huang’s New Take on the Most Famous Chinese Novel You’ve Never Read in English: Announcing The Water Outlaws |work=Tor.com |date=15 October 2020 |access-date=7 November 2020 |url= https://www.tor.com/2020/10/15/book-announcements-s-l-huang-the-water-outlaws/}}</ref> | ||
* ''The Vela'', a multi-author serially-published space opera, has a nonbinary character named Niko who uses [[they/them]] pronouns. There are other nonbinary characters as well. Yoon Ha Lee, one of the authors, revealed that in the original drafts "Niko was originally a [[cisgender]]ed male character named Oskar".<ref name="Hadi_thevela">{{Cite web |title=Unveiling ‘The Vela’: An interview with Becky Chambers, S. L. Huang and Yoon Ha Lee (Part 1) |last=Hadi |first=Shana E. |work=The Stanford Daily |date=6 March 2019 |access-date=7 November 2020 |url= https://www.stanforddaily.com/2019/03/06/unveiling-the-vela-an-interview-with-becky-chambers-s-l-huang-and-yoon-ha-lee-part-1/}}</ref> | * ''The Vela'', a multi-author serially-published space opera, has a nonbinary character named Niko who uses [[they/them]] pronouns. There are other nonbinary characters as well. Yoon Ha Lee, one of the authors, revealed that in the original drafts "Niko was originally a [[cisgender]]ed male character named Oskar".<ref name="Hadi_thevela">{{Cite web |title=Unveiling ‘The Vela’: An interview with Becky Chambers, S. L. Huang and Yoon Ha Lee (Part 1) |last=Hadi |first=Shana E. |work=The Stanford Daily |date=6 March 2019 |access-date=7 November 2020 |url= https://www.stanforddaily.com/2019/03/06/unveiling-the-vela-an-interview-with-becky-chambers-s-l-huang-and-yoon-ha-lee-part-1/}}</ref> | ||
*In ''Night Shine'', by Tessa Gratton, the character Kirin Dark-Smile is nonbinary.<ref name="NightShine">{{Cite web |title=A Mismatched Adventure: Night Shine by Tessa Gratton |last=Bourke |first=Liz |work=Tor.com |date=10 September 2020 |access-date=7 November 2020 |url= https://www.tor.com/2020/09/10/book-reviews-night-shine-by-tessa-gratton/}}</ref> | |||
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