The Opposite of a Lobotomy: Metal From Heaven by august clarke
If you read only one book this year, let it be this one.
Tag: best of the decade
Glitter is Punk, Actually: Space Opera by Catherynne M Valente
My woefully inadequate review of EUROVISION IN SPACE!
Rent My Heart in Twain: Asunder by Kerstin Hall
A deathspeaker in an exquisitely weird world is on the run with her shadow.
Miracles and Mirabilia: The West Passage by Jared Pechaček
If you forced me to describe The West Passage’s aesthetic, my answer would probably be: Medieval marginalia meets Pliny’s Natural History with a dash of biblically accurate angels.
Genre-Defying, Genre-Defining: Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera
Rakesfall breaks the mould and then your mind and refuses to put EITHER ONE back together.
A Queer Witches’ Bacchanal: The Feast Makers by H. A. Clarke
The perfect ending to the perfect series.
Or: time for Sideways and their coven to change the world.
Wonder-Striking: The Pomegranate Gate by Ariel Kaplan
Sephardic Jewish portal fantasy that taught me how to feel wonder again.
Baroque, Bizarre, Brilliant: The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon
A disaster!queer on the run from AI gods = a confusing but stunning sci fi fever dream.
Intimate Majesty: Witch King by Martha Wells
It’s been six years since Martha Wells’ last fantasy novel, and folx, it was so worth the wait.
A Dragon-Rider Book Like No Other: To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose
QUEER
NATIVE-AMERICAN
DRAGON-RIDERS!!!