Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth, broken down trope by trope
Vox 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. 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. The combinations really shouldn’t work, but somehow they do. That’s part of why I always summarize this book as “lesbian necromancers in space.” It feels a little reductive, but it also come...
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