A review by ghosthermione
Consider Pegasus by Si Clarke

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring tense fast-paced

5.0

I burned through all 3 books in this series in under a week. Absolutely adore it. it's as whacky as Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy, full of nerdy references to all your faves (highlights include Star Trek, Doctor Who, and Hitchhikers but there are maaaaany). It's also one of the deepest, most inclusive and most moving scifi I've read in a long time. All those whacky characters - the horse person, Big Bird, the grumpy robot who can't swear, the aurora borealis personification, and Spot the Dog - get more and more touching the further you get in the series. And if the 2nd book was very much a metaphor about human rights (refugee rights, and anti slavery and racism mainly - a strange contrast to The Fourth Time, We Drowned that i am reading concurrently), this one is a deep dive into ableism, saneism and institutionalisation, conversion therapy and the kind of procedures intersex people have to undergo. It is not subtle. It doesn't have to be. It manages to make its point very clear while also remaining a funny, whacky scifi story about a nonbinary person and her dog having adventures in space with her unicorn friend. Those two things can be true at the same time, but not all authors would manage it. 
I'll definitely jump on any further books in this series in an instant.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Body shaming, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Ableism, Violence, and Medical content

The spoilers above are the main subject of the book, in a more or less allegorical fashion Note they are all explicitly condemned, however they are described in some level of detail