Upright Women Wanted [Hardcover]

FIGHT THE STATE. BE A LIBRARIAN.

A 2021 Hugo and Locus Award Finalist A 2020 ALA Booklist Top 10 SFF Pick A Booklist Editor's Choice Pick Named a Best Book of 2020(NPR, New York Public Library, Booklist,Bustle, Den of Geek)

A breezy, rousing, and unrelentingly fun gallop.NPR

InUpright Women Wanted, Sarah Gailey reinvents the neo-Western with an explicitly antifascist, near-future story of queer identity.

Esther is a stowaway.

Shes hidden herself away in the Librarians book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her. To the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda.

The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the right thing. They'll bring the fight to you.

Sarah Gailey is a Hugo Award and British Fantasy Award winning and bestselling author of speculative fiction, short stories, and essays. Their nonfiction has been published by dozens of venues internationally. Their fiction has been published in over seven different languages. They have written comics forMarvel, EC,andBOOM! Studios, including multiple original series. They are the editor and publisher ofStone SoupandLove Letters: Reasons To Be Alive.

A dazzling neo-western adventure. . . . Gaileys gorgeous writing and authentic characters make this slim volume a pure delight.
Publishers Weekly,starred review

A breezy, rousing, and unrelentingly fun gallop.
NPR

A good old-fashioned horse opera for the 22nd century. Gunslinger librarians of the apocalypse are on a mission to spread public health, decency, and the revolution.
Charles Stross, author of the Laundry Files series

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