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Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel Kindle Edition

by Julian K. Jarboe (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
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Winner of the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror, this 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."

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"Jarboe's outstanding debut collection demonstrates a flair for queer surrealism and an ear for lyrical prose." - Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Reading this book one discovers how the tools of speculative and fantasy fiction can be so essential to queer expression. In the end, Jarboe is able to honestly grapple with this world, as a great artist will, for what other mother do we have?" - Lambda Literary Review

"There is no greater joy in genre fiction than finding a book that attempts to tug the status quo toward something new, and Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel is one of those books. Julian K. Jarboe is exactly the voice we need in genre fiction." - Locus Magazine

"This slim collection of only 222 pages draws on myth, fairy tale, apocalyptic visions of the future - capitalism and climate change gone further awry, and a necessary dose of dark humor." - The Seattle Review of Books


About the Author

Julian K. Jarboe is a writer and sound designer from Massachusetts. Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel is their debut novel.

Adi Cabral is a classically trained actor, dialect coach, and intimacy director holding their MFA in theater performance from Arizona State University. Their work has been shared on stage at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities (Colorado), the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (Missouri), New Repertory Theatre (Massachusetts), the Stella Adler Studio of Acting (New York), Mildred's Umbrella Theatre Company (Texas), The New Hazlett Theater (Pennsylvania), The Hangar Theatre Company (New York), Central Square Theatre (Massachusetts), Latino Theater Company (California), and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Scotland, UK). Adi is a certified teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework and Knight-Thompson Speechwork. As a professor of theater, voice, and movement, their research focuses on inclusive practices for training LGBTQ+ identified actors.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0857HX64F
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lethe Press (February 26, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 26, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1222 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 145 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 86 ratings

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taylorh
5.0 out of 5 stars Like you, it defies classification
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2022
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Are you a letter on your passport? A bottle of hormones? A psychographic profile at Instazon or Lockheed-Pixar? A neuroatypical insectoid switched at birth with a fairy?

_Everyone on the Moon_ is a collection as freakish, wonderful, and genre-defying as the queers that will surely devour it. This is no _Steven Universe_ episode of sanitized Trans Representation - it’s full of messy, defiant, hedonistic weirdos whose problems aren’t conveniently explained in a viral infographic.

Intensely political - family abolitionism sizzles on the page. It exhorts us to keep each other alive, make things that ought to exist, and unmake things that don’t.

I can truly say I’ve never felt more seen, skewered, satirized, and satisfied. Read it - it’s pretty cool.
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Aron Marie
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful intersectional short stories
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2021
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I read this book with a trans book club, and it was one of our all time favorite reads as a group. The short stories are beautiful and provocative. Through the use of fantasy the author is able to straddle multiple identities making it unclear if they are making reference to transness, disability or other aspects of identity. Many of the stories also address the complicated relationships between transness and religion, in ways that both recognize the trauma that organized religion has caused for many trans people and also offering healing. The lines “Why does God create grapes and wheat, but not wine and bread? “God does this because God wants us to share in the act of creation.” were so deeply healing for me as a person who had been told that there was something deeply wrong with changing my body. Can't recommend this book highly enough!
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Carter Diggs
5.0 out of 5 stars Trans Catholic Cyberpunk - A Surprisingly Fantastic Combination
Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2021
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One of the best short fiction collections I have ever read. Entries vary wildly in form, theme, and tone. One story might be a meditative poem about an android's birth, another a surreal piece of flash fiction on the pain we take from other people, and to even a humorous story about a man who transforms himself willingly into a bug. At the center of the collection is the eponymous novella/novelette that serves as a snapshot of life within an all-too-familiar capitalist dystopia. Jarboe blends these disparate subjects together amazingly to create something wholly new and inventive. I will absolutely be looking towards their next work. (My Favorites: The Marks of Aegis, I am a Beautiful Bug!, Estranged Children of Storybook Houses, As Tender Feet of Cretan Girls Danced Once Around An Altar of Love)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Deeply moving and enormous fun
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2024
And a terrific sense of wonder and imagery and...well, I could go on. Just buy it and read it and recoomend it and tell Julian Jarboe you want another book. Such an original, confident voice. I had been waiting for this!
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walterturg
5.0 out of 5 stars An extraordinary collection of short stories from a brilliant new talent
Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2022
An exquisitely written, sometimes harrowing, always timely, collection of Queer near-future SciFi from a young talent. A book every lover of fiction should read.
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Katharine Mason
5.0 out of 5 stars Unpredictable and Fascinating
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2020
A real stunner of a collection. More genre writers should be taking risks like this, and more genre readers should be lining up to bask in them. Not perfect, but so much more daring than the norm that all is forgiven.
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Peter N
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing tonal range for an anthology
Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2020
I'm impressed by Jarboe's command of a variety of writing styles. Some of the stories read like myths while others like sections of YA novels, and others like poems. This is a great work and I look forward to reading more from this author.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Gender and Magical Realism
Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2020
I love this. It is wonderful. It kind of manages to play into all of my weird gender feelings. Right now it’s my favorite book of 2020.
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