![]() ![]() (Plus, trying to summarize a plot this complicated any other way is a fool’s game.) That’s part of why I always summarize this book as “lesbian necromancers in space.” It feels a little reductive, but it also comes as close as anything can to gesturing at all the trope-swirling glee going on here. The combinations really shouldn’t work, but somehow they do. Sometimes I imagine Muir as a cackling mad scientist in a lab, grabbing beakers labeled “enemies to lovers” and “in space” and “ that incel meme about studying the blade” and swirling all their contents together. One of the things that makes Tamsyn Muir’s fantasy novel Gideon the Ninth so deeply satisfying to read is the giddy joy it takes in playing with different genre tropes. The Vox Book Club is linking to to support local and independent booksellers. ![]()
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