A 2021 Hugo Award Finalist!
A 2021 Locus Award Finalist!
A 2020 ALA Booklist Top 10 SF/F Pick!
A Booklist Editor's Choice Pick!
Book Riot's Best Books of 2020 So Far!
Named a Best of 2020 Pick for NPR | NYPL | Booklist | Bustle | Den of Geek
In Upright Women Wanted, award-winning author Sarah Gailey reinvents the pulp Western with an explicitly antifascist, near-future story of queer identity.
βThat girlβs got more wrong notions than a barn owlβs got mean looks.β
Esther is a stowaway. Sheβs hidden herself away in the Librarianβs book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for herβa marriage 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.
Praise for Upright Women Wanted
"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."βCharles Stross
"A dazzling neo-western adventure. . . . Gaileyβs gorgeous writing and authentic characters make this slim volume a pure delight."βPublishers Weekly, starred review
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