My gay experience was eating McDonald’s at 2 a.m.

Then we went through a period we got kind of perfect lesbians, but none of them matched me or any of my friends, who were all just complete trash gremlins. I grew up in the era where you were seeing lesbians at their messiest. Your main characters, Gideon and Harrow, are classic 'disaster lesbians.' Why is this kind of messy representation so important to your storytelling? After penning a trilogy full of characters she affectionately refers to as 'trash lesbians,' the author is ready to move on to an all new - but just as queer - setting.īelow, Muir muses on spec-fic, the Old West, and eating McDonald’s outside her local gay club. Muir's slate of new releases begins with Go Marching In, the first of a cyberpunk novella trilogy about a gunslinger pulled out of retirement. in space!' to become the unofficial viral tag line for the entire Locked Tomb trilogy.īut beneath the virality was an incredibly original book, one that garnered a spot on the New York Times bestseller list and vied for SFF's top literary prizes, earning Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Award nominations and winning the 2020 Locus Award for Best First Novel.Īhead of the release of her third Locked Tomb novel, 2022's Alecto the Ninth, Muir has secured a five-book deal with the publisher that will take her readers on a new set of adventures. In a cover blurb for the book, veteran sci-fi author Charles Stross described it as 'Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space! Decadent nobles vie to serve the deathless Emperor! Skeletons!' And it didn't take long for 'Lesbian necromancers. Which is exactly what Muir's works have done, thanks to an early review of Gideon. 'But when you get out into bookstores like six books with gay wizards. ' SFF through the lens of social media you’d think that every book was about gay wizards now,' Muir tells Bustle of the attention the Locked Tomb trilogy and books of its kind are getting. And between Muir's openly queer cast and her dialogue dripping in internet culture - think: references to Daniel Radcliffe's much-gifed SNL skit and memes like I Studied the Blade - the Locked Tomb trilogy became a welcome reprieve for LGBTQ+ millennial readers who can't often find their experiences in the pages of mainstream fiction. The novel was the first installment of Muir's Locked Tomb trilogy, which follows best frenemies Harrow and Gideon: a noble-born necromancer and her cavalier guardian, respectively. The 35-year-old author first exploded onto the science fiction and fantasy scene with her 2019 debut, Gideon the Ninth. Tamsyn Muir has carved out a literary niche for herself as the queen of the lesbian necromancers.

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