Queer Reads: Emily Hampton’s sci-fi rom-com ‘The Stars Too Fondly’ drops in time for Pride
A sapphic space rom com in the vein of Becky Chambers and Casey McQuiston, The Stars Too Fondly by Emily Hamilton has a release date of June 11.
The new book is a cozy yet epic tale about queer joy, sacrifice, greed, and love — alternate dimensions-spanning love between a human and a hologram, world-saving love between your chosen family — that will scratch an itch you didn’t know you had. “The fate of the world rests in the hands of a ragtag group of queers stuck on a spaceship bound for Proxima Centauri… [The Stars too Fondly] is as addictive as it is funny, and as interstellar as it is human,” Amelia Possanza, author of Lesbian Love Story, said about the book.
About the book: So, here’s the thing: Cleo and her friends really, truly didn’t mean to steal this spaceship. They just wanted to know why, twenty years ago, the entire Providence crew vanished without a trace.
But then the stupid dark matter engine started all on its own, and now these four twenty-somethings are en route to Proxima Centauri, unable to turn around, and being harangued by a snarky hologram that has the face and attitude of the ship’s missing captain, Billie.
