Alexis Hall's "Hell's Heart"
A few things to state up front; I am a fan of Alexis Hall's romance novels, Boyfriend Material is maybe my all time favorite rom-com. So when I learned that Alexis Hall was putting out a retelling of Moby Dick (a book I read for the first time last year and really enjoyed) and that it was a sapphic retelling set in space I was very excited. I know this adaption won't be for everyone but I really enjoyed it. Things like Queequeg, here a woman called simply Q, being a savage because she was from old Earth a land long abandoned and she speaks Latin really worked for me.
Where I think Alexis Hall really succeeds in retelling Moby Dick is understanding the importance of the tangents. And that Moby Dick has a lot more humor than most people would expect. And that Ishmael is also on the path of obsession that doomed Ahab, it is not the same obsession but it is just as destructive. Now this version is in space, features a majority femme cast, makes the whales into tentacled space monsters and ups the explicit sex scenes but is otherwise a pretty solid adaption of Herman Melville.