A Future I Want to Live In: A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
A very queer, near-future sci-fi where aliens have come to save us…by taking us away from Earth.
Tag: best of the decade
Gorgeous and Glorious: Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane
Long after The Illiad is forgotten, they’ll remember Wrath Goddess Sing.
The Birth of a New Genre: The Hourglass Throne by K.D. Edwards
A mass sigil of a book.
A Paean of Hope Against the Dark: Ansible–A Thousand Faces by Stant Litore
Ansible was pitched to me as featuring a ‘bisexual hijabi time traveler’, and you know what, that really is all I need to hear.
The Most Perfect Book to Ever Book: Saint Death’s Daughter by C. S. E. Cooney
If you crossed Catherynne Valente with N.K. Jemisin, you might be lucky enough to get something almost as extravagantly epic as Saint Death’s Daughter.
Paragonical: Dark Breakers by C.S.E. Cooney
I had to invent a new word to express how perfect this book is.
I think that says it all, really.
Horrifyingly Beautiful & Utterly Perfect: The Wolf Among the Wild Hunt by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor
I don’t think it’s possible to love a book more than I love The Wolf Among the Wild Hunt.
Rhapsodic Prose and a Queer Cast You’ll Adore: The All-Consuming World by Cassandra Khaw
Before this, I had never read Khaw’s work before. They mostly write horror, and I am a total whimp about horror.
I don’t care. After reading The All-Consuming World, I will read anything Khaw writes.
Faves From the Last Decade
My absolute favourite books of the last 10 years.
An Alt-History That Soars: The Philosopher’s Flight By Tom Miller
A man wants to fly in a world where magic belongs to women, in a book that will have you levitating with delight.