Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted over at Wishful Endings to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about but haven’t yet read. Most of the time they’re books that have yet to be released, but not always. It’s based on the Waiting on Wednesday meme, which was originally hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.
This week my Can’t-Wait-For Book is Pluralities by Avi Silver!
Genres: Queer Protagonists, Sci Fi
Representation: Nonbinary MC
Published on: 3rd October 2023
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"Wait—rewind. I was still a girl back then, before the universes converged."
Guided by premonitions and a fateful car ride, a burned-out retail worker stumbles into the grand exit from womanhood. Meanwhile, in a galaxy not so far away, an alien prince goes rogue with his sentient spaceship, seeking purpose in the great glimmering void. As the two of them come together in a fusion of body and mind, they must reckon with their assigned identities.
Tender, witty, and daring, Pluralities is a slipstream-meets-space-adventure story honoring the long and turbulent journey into gender euphoria.
I have been keeping an eye out for this book for literal YEARS, and last week we got this gorgeous cover!!! It’s by artist Lorna Antoniazzi, and I am head over heels for it. The ‘she’ text on the character’s cheek becoming blurred!!! The SPACE – literal outer space! – waiting behind the face! With what is almost certainly a sentient spaceship amidst the stars! The distortion of the title-text, like it’s rippling with all the possibilities that come about when universes converge!
I really, really, really love it!
Now for the book itself: literally everything about it sounds right up my alley – surely it’s not that hard to see why I’ve been looking forward to it? I am always craving more nonbinary MCs, and the fact that this is a gender-identity journey leading towards gender euphoria is such a big deal – I am so very tired of trans+nonbinary struggles and misery; yes, of course they’re real, and people can write about them all they want, but I want something more optimistic and joyful, and Pluralities seems to be promising just that.
And – an alien prince?! With a sentient spaceship?! I love getting to see different takes on non-humans (which real AIs/sentient spaceships definitely count as too) and after Avi Silver’s Two Dark Moons, which is packed full of marvellously interesting worldbuilding, I’m excited to see what kind of worldbuilding Pluralities is going to feature! Plus – universes converging? What’s that going to look like in practice? How and why will there be converging? Is it a good thing? A bad thing? A neutral thing? Eee!
If you’re interested in getting to read it early, there’s an application for early reading copies here, which I encourage any other bloggers or reviewers to go fill out! And/or, you can check out Silver’s Sãoni Cycle, which I recommend most strongly!
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