Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel
Stories

I am so grateful that Julian K. Jarboe's debut collection, Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel came across my goodreads feed one day. Described on the publisher's page as being a "collection of body-horror fairy tales and mid-apocalyptic Catholic cyberpunk, memory and myth, loss and age... (......more

A beautiful, thought-provoking, gloriously messy collection. The titular Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel is like a story collection in and of itself, almost a little microcosm of the book as a whole. Other stories cluster into diptychs or triptychs, like the back-to-back wonders of As Te......more

Seriously impressive. FRTC......more

I was a little upset this morning when I woke up to find a vague tweet from this author using my reviews as an example of people who essentially review by saying 'wow such representation', but I figured I was going to read this book anyway and I might as well deliver on what is apparently my niche. R......more

I picked this up on a whim during a recent trip to Virtual Powell's (aka their website) because it was shelved as queer fiction and the title was funny. I ended up loving it: the stories here are all very different, ranging from "this is actively difficult for me to read" to "well, this is strange i......more