TAMSYN MUIR is a horror, fantasy and sci-fi author whose short fiction has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the World Fantasy Award and the Eugie Foster Memorial Award. A Kiwi, she has spent most of her life in Howick, New Zealand, with time living in Waiuku and central Wellington. She currently lives and teaches in Oxford, in the United Kingdom. Gideon the Ninth is her first novel.
The Archive Undying (2023) (Downworld Sequence, book 1) Emma Mieko Candon "Giant robots stomp around a lush and tactile world of ruined cities and unknowable AI gods, which is all one could ever need."
Some Desperate Glory (2023) Emily Tesh "Masterful, audacious storytelling. Relentless, unsentimental, a completely wild ride."
Leech (2022) Hiron Ennes "A wonderful new entry to Gothic science fiction, impeccably clever and atmospheric. Think Wuthering Heights . . . with worms!"
Rosebud (2022) Paul Cornell "An elegant, elegiac examination of identity, fictionality, God and humanity itself--but also a very, very funny story about a crew of dopes. I love them all, except Bob. (In actuality Bob sort of broke my heart!)"
Summer Sons (2021) Lee Mandelo "Truly intense: you can smell the blood, the sweat, and the petrol. It absolutely rips."
The View Was Exhausting (2021) Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta "I read it all in one morning and couldn't put it down once, which frankly was of huge disadvantage to me because I had work to do. The View Was Exhausting is enormously sophisticated, tension held like a net, as it slowly holds the reader closer and closer to a fire, and I laughed many times. It's an absolute tour de force, and Win is now one of my new favorite protagonists ever."
Shadow Frost (2019) (Shadow Frost Trilogy, book 1) Coco Ma "Shadow Frost is a fresh, confident and remarkably self-assured book. Asterin Faelenhart is a heroine of a type I wish had been more common when I'd been a teenager -- capable and imperfect, tender and sharp, with both sword and magic readied in the face of overwhelming odds. If Ma was this good at fifteen, the future of the genre is extremely bright."
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Far Out (2021) Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Paula Guran