Brian
brianreadsbooks.bsky.social
Brian
@brianreadsbooks.bsky.social
🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇸 reader in London 🇬🇧

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It’s a wonderful read.
February 2, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Supercool! ✌🏻 🧡
January 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This was one of my favourites from the anthology!
January 16, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Looking forward to it! I’m headed into Elliott Bay Books when I visit Seattle next week!
January 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
His story in New Suns 2 was equally as great!
January 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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
January 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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.
January 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
…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
January 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
…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
January 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
…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
January 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM