Staff Picks: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

December 22, 2019December 19, 2019 locusmag 0 Comments

It’s Locus’s 2019 Holiday Countdown of Staff Picks!

Reviews editor Jonathan Strahan says, “The hippest, hottest book of the year was Tamsyn Muir’s debut, Gideon the Ninth. Blurbed as being about lesbian necromancers in space (it is!), it will grab you by the throat and won’t let you go ’til it spits you out on the last tear-stained page. Perfect for just about anyone who loves swords and space and stuff. Huge fun!”

You can read Liz Bourke and Carolyn Cushman’s reviews of Gideon the Ninth online or in the October 2019 issue of Locus.

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