You might like The Machineries of Empire trilogy by Yoon Ha Lee! It's a military space opera novel trilogy, plus some short stories.
Captain Kel Cheris can escape disgrace by re-taking the Fortress of Scattered Needles, and her best chance is by allying with the traitorous undead general Shuos Jedao. But there's a question of how much she can trust Jedao, and whether taking the Fortress is worth the price--
The series has some great space battles, and really creative worldbuilding (including sufficiently advanced math being indistinguishable from magic and a really interesting political system). The politicking in the series is also great, especially in the later books where it takes some more prominence. And while it doesn't have a mystery plot in the traditional sense, the first two books do have over arching myseries. (The first book's mystery being "how trustworthy is Jedao?" and "Why is Jedao the way he is?")
Also, multiple queer characters! Including Cheris and Jedao, and some of the characters introduced in later books are queer also.
Content warnings: rape, suicide, some transphobia. Depending on how you define it, there is some blood magic and self harm too.
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Captain Kel Cheris can escape disgrace by re-taking the Fortress of Scattered Needles, and her best chance is by allying with the traitorous undead general Shuos Jedao. But there's a question of how much she can trust Jedao, and whether taking the Fortress is worth the price--
The series has some great space battles, and really creative worldbuilding (including sufficiently advanced math being indistinguishable from magic and a really interesting political system). The politicking in the series is also great, especially in the later books where it takes some more prominence. And while it doesn't have a mystery plot in the traditional sense, the first two books do have over arching myseries. (The first book's mystery being "how trustworthy is Jedao?" and "Why is Jedao the way he is?")
Also, multiple queer characters! Including Cheris and Jedao, and some of the characters introduced in later books are queer also.
Content warnings: rape, suicide, some transphobia. Depending on how you define it, there is some blood magic and self harm too.