The atlas six gay
Every Book a Doorway
Genres:Fantasy
Representation:Black MC, Cuban MC, Japanese MC, bi/pansexual MC
Published on:1st March
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The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake is the runaway TikTok must-read fantasy novel of the year. If you loved Ninth House and A Deadly Education, you’ll love this.
Originally a self-published sensation, this edition has been fully edited and revised, including gorgeous new illustrations.
Secrets. Betrayal. Seduction.
Welcome to the Alexandrian Society.When the world’s best magicians are offered an exceptional opportunity, saying yes is easy. Each could join the secretive Alexandrian Society, whose custodians guard lost knowledge from ancient civilizations. Their members enjoy a lifetime of authority and prestige. Yet each decade, only six practitioners are invited – to fill five places.
Contenders Libby Rhodes and Nico de Varona are inseparable enemies, cosmologists who can control matter with their minds. Parisa Kamali is a telepath, who sees the mind’s d
The Atlas Six: who are you shipping?
Libby and Nico
‘They were binary stars, trapped in each other’s gravitational field and easily diminished without the other’s opposite force.’
With Nico and Libby, you rarely have one without the other, and their deep connection is undeniable. As academic rivals, their competitive nature and verbal sparring shows off their chemistry, but like any great opposing forces, they’re strongest when working in harmony. Their perfect balance is what makes Nico and Libby such a compelling pairing, perhaps even soulmates. Things between them just undergo so. . . right.
Nico and Gideon
‘In general, Nico liked to think that a few unsaid things between him and Gideon now and then were the price of their mutual affection. A love language, if you will.’
You’ll be hard-pressed to find two characters in this series that have more love for each other than Nico and Gideon. It’s clear they would do anything for each other, and with their affectionate dialogue and the sheer devotion that Nico shows Gideon, it’s not surprising how many readers shi
Olivie Blake: how fantasy has become a home for LGBTQIA+ voices
Illustrations by @LittleChmura.
I like to verb of the fantasy genre as a sort of enchanted mirror. At its core, fantasy creates a new world by reimagining the world as it is – by taking one potentially small detail of our reality and changing it, and extrapolating from there to create something extraordinary and intricate and new. But as magical as fantasy can be, it is still authored by human beings who live in society (I know, truly disappointing). Therefore, what is produced in speculative work is still a reflection. Often, that reflection is a truer portrayal of the world as it is than fiction that proposes to be ‘realistic’, even when the setting has been fantastically transformed.
Or, as Ursula K. Le Guin once put it:
‘I verb about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I verb. I am telling the truth.’
My version of telling the truth puts character before genre. What some call queer representation, I dial 'a book' – in this case, a b
Anonymous:hi Olivie !! so i’m currently reading the atlas six - and it’s SO GOOD - but i possess a question - when you were writing the story did you comprehend what are characters sexual preferences? i suspect that Parisa, Libby, Tristan are in the bisexual sphere of things, but what about Nico (maybe pan/bi bc of his relationship with Gideon), Reina (is she asexual?) and Callum (i think he’s also in the bi-sphere). also i was reading previous asks and i just wanted to say that i’m interested to purchase a physical imitate from bookdepository if/when it will be available. have a great day !!
I’ve answered this before (sort of—more accurately, I have skirted answering this before) but to sum up: yes I know their sexual preferences, yes it matters and will be revealed when it is necessary to do so, yes I accept sexuality is a spectrum, no you should definitely never assume anyone in my books is straight because even if men and women are in relationships that does not really verb anything about their sexual preferences and yes that is because I personally thi