The 5th Gender

A Tinkered Stars Mystery , #1

Paperback, 221 pages

English language

Published May 15, 2019 by Gail Carriger LLC, GAIL CARRIGER LLC.

ISBN:
978-1-944751-39-5
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A species that has no word for murder, has a murderer aboard their spaceship.

ALIEN

Tristol lives in exile. But he’s built a life for himself aboard a human space station. He’s even begun to understand the complex nuances of human courting rituals.

Detective Hastion is finally flirting back!

MURDER

Except that Tristol’s beloved space station is unexpectedly contacted by the galoi – a xenophobic species with five genders, purple skin, and serious attitude. They need the help of a human detective because there’s a murderer aboard their spaceship. Murder is so rare, the galoi don’t even have a word for it.

Tristol knows this because he is galoi.

ROMANCE

Which means that he and Detective Hastion are on the case… together.

Delicate Sensibilities?

Contains men who love other men in graphic detail, regardless of gender, biology, or skin color... and lots of emotively sexy tentacle hair.

New York Times …

2 editions

reviewed The 5th Gender by Gail Carriger (Tinkered Stars, #1)

Cozy murder mystery with queer alien romance

A cozy murder mystery in a spaceship with humans trying to understand aliens and vice-versa. And a romance between a queer detective and a lavender alien with hair tentacles. It plays with the idea of gender and sexual diversity. It’s cute and light-hearted. Warning: It has explicit sexual content.

Review of '5th Gender' on 'Goodreads'

I adore cultural contact stories, and this is one of the best I've read in ages. Here's to more stories in the same universe, o-please! A beautiful address of self-discovery and the pain of it as well, which I was not expecting. Very well put together and told.

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Subjects

  • Sci-fi
  • Queer romance
  • LGBT

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