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Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel by Julian K. Jarboe

4 reviews

directorpurry's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Homophobia, Self harm, Transphobia, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism and Religious bigotry

Minor: Drug use

olivinebranch's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, Homophobia, and Transphobia

Religious trauma plays a big role

e_flah's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel was a thoroughly enjoyable collection of speculative short stories, which is really saying something as I'm a very hesitant short story reader. I absolutely loved the queerness in this collection -- sometimes it's a main feature of a story, sometimes it's just present. Jarboe's prose had a knack for worming under my skin and placing me inside of the stories. Some of my favorite stories were "The Marks of Aegis," "The Android that Designed Itself," and "I Am a Beautiful Bug!"

“Choosing is extremely powerful magic. Its power derived from the death of what is not chosen.”

Ironically the only story I didn't enjoy was the titular one, which also happened to be the longest story by quite a significant amount. That said, the range of subject matter and style of these stories made for a gripping read. I look forward to recommending Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel to everyone I know who loves delightfully bizarre stories.

“To take shape is to sever the infinite possibilities of wanting into a fragile burden of being.”

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm and Transphobia

Minor: Death and Drug use

suicidal ideation

hamohero's review

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, and Sexual content

Minor: Animal death