Killjoy gives us a great community of characters – outcasts both by choice and by fate, all of whom have come together to build something more. All well and good, but when that guardian spirit begins turning on the town itself and those who summoned it, the town finds itself divided as to whether their own ideals or the purity of the guardian should win out, and what exactly “injustice” is comprised of. Margaret Killjoy’s The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion opens the collection with a bang, giving us a squatter Iowa commune that summoned a guardian to protect them – a blood-red, three-antlered stag that murders anyone who brings injustice into the community. It’s a great anthology, with four solid entries and four wildly diverse stories, each of which shows you a different side of how fantasy has truly begun to move away from the Arthurian tropes that defined it for so long. This month, in honor of Pride month, Tor released In Our Own Worlds, a collection of four novellas all written by LGBTQ+ authors and featuring LGBTQ+ characters. In recent years, Tor.com has made an effort to publish more novellas, a choice that both allows them to take advantage of ebooks and low prices as well as allowing a wider range of authors who might want to try out a world or idea before taking on a full novel.
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