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Everyone on the moon is essential personnel : stories / Julian K. Jarboe

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Lethe Press, 2020Description: 204 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781590216927
  • 159021692X
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
The mark of aegis -- Here you are, near me -- Self care -- The nothing spots where nobody wants to stay -- The heavy things -- The seed and the stone -- We did not know we were giants -- The android that designed itself -- As tender feet of Cretan girls danced once around an altar of love -- Estranged children of storybook houses -- My noise will keep the record -- Wake word -- Everyone on the moon is essential personnel -- First contact, communion -- I am a beautiful bug! -- The thing in us we fear just wants our love.
Summary: "In this debut collection of body-horror fairy tales and mid-apocalyptic Catholic cyberpunk, memory and myth, loss and age, these are the tools of storyteller Jarboe, a talent in the field of queer fabulism. Bodily autonomy and transformation, the importance of negative emotions, unhealthy relationships, and bad situations amidst the staggering and urgent question of how build and nurture meaning, love, and safety in a larger world/society that might not be "fixable.""--Amazon.com
List(s) this item appears in: LGBTQIA+ Reads for Adults
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Science Fiction/Fantasy Jarboe, Julian Available 33111009631496
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In this debut collection of body-horror fairy tales and mid-apocalyptic Catholic cyberpunk, memory and myth, loss and age, these are the tools of storyteller Jarboe, a talent in the field of queer fabulism. Bodily autonomy and transformation, the importance of negative emotions, unhealthy relationships, and bad situations amidst the staggering and urgent question of how build and nurture meaning, love, and safety in a larger world/society that might not be "fixable." Winner of the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror.



"In this debut collection of body-horror fairy tales and mid-apocalyptic Catholic cyberpunk, memory and myth, loss and age, these are the tools of storyteller Jarboe, a talent in the field of queer fabulism. Bodily autonomy and transformation, the importance of negative emotions, unhealthy relationships, and bad situations amidst the staggering and urgent question of how build and nurture meaning, love, and safety in a larger world/society that might not be "fixable.""--Amazon.com

The mark of aegis -- Here you are, near me -- Self care -- The nothing spots where nobody wants to stay -- The heavy things -- The seed and the stone -- We did not know we were giants -- The android that designed itself -- As tender feet of Cretan girls danced once around an altar of love -- Estranged children of storybook houses -- My noise will keep the record -- Wake word -- Everyone on the moon is essential personnel -- First contact, communion -- I am a beautiful bug! -- The thing in us we fear just wants our love.

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