Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel

This is a collection of short stories that takes a lot of risks. So while there were stories that I really did not vibe with, there was also THE ALL CAPS RANTING CLIMATE CATASTROPHE OF MY DREAMS. There is a lot of SUPER WEIRD SHIT happening in these stories, generally queer, often happening in some margin of a capitalist hellscape. For example, in one story a person has themself surgically transformed into a bug? And then is yelled at by an employee at the DMV that Kafka's Metamorphosis was just a metaphor? And he should know because he wrote a paper about it in college? Anyway, the stories that worked for me delighted me with their weirdness, and those that didn't were still interesting.

Extremely extremely good. Reminiscent of Kelly Link and Jeanne Thornton in particular, with a surprising amount of stylistic and formal flexibility. Particular favorites are the title story, " Self Care" and "As Tender Feet of Cretan Girls Once Danced Around An Altar of Love." (Not insignificantly, they are the ones I am most jealous to not have written.)

Not all of the stories landed, but the ones that did were among the best and queerest pieces of recent speculative fiction I’ve read!