It’s a wonderful read.

Supercool! ✌🏻 🧡

This was one of my favourites from the anthology!

Looking forward to it! I’m headed into Elliott Bay Books when I visit Seattle next week!

His story in New Suns 2 was equally as great!

Standouts:
- The Dearth of Temptation, Christopher Caldwell
- Your World Against Mine, Adam Sass
- Yesterday's Heroes, Charlie Winter

And for pure camp:
- Garden of the Serpent King, James Bennett
- Plezure, Derrick Webber

If you're into SFF or just queer nerds, get this book!

2/2 #bookreview

Yuck. So sorry. I hate that it always makes me feel fear, even when I logically know it’s not a threatening person. I mean, that’s what your writing is all about… I’m sure it doesn’t make it easier for you.

…alliance that leaves you wondering whose side you're on and why. No one in this book is perfect, and I think that's part of what impressed me about Shawl's writing. Each person is a complex, unique character who sucked me into their world.

This is an all-time favorite book.

4/4 #bookreview

…Then arrive Black American evangelists, who form a tenuous alliance with Everfair. All of them co-exist with the indigenous people of the Congo and their King. The mix of characters, and the communities they represent, results in a fascinating decades-long saga of conflict and…

3/4 #bookreview

…the new Utopian colony of Everfair is being founded with a collectivist approach to ruling, primarily by women. The colony welcomes those who escaped from Leopold's atrocities. Alongside immigrants from Asia, they have developed steam technologies that allow them to combat Leopold.

2/4 #bookreview