New releases in fiction, non-fiction and comics that catch our eye.
Bury your gays By Chuck Tingle
Chuck Tingle is best known for being a frequent meme erotic titles, but the author has also been making a name for himself in mainstream horror in recent years. Tingle’s second full-length horror novel, Bury your gayswas released this week, and if the title didn’t make it clear enough, it invokes one of Hollywood’s most tiresome tropes: weird storylines that inevitably end in tragedy or a write-off.
In Bury your gaysStrange circumstances arise after the book’s main character, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter named Misha, refuses orders from studio executives to kill off two lesbian characters “in the blaze of gay fame” or make them straight. It’s got monsters (not just the corporate kind), gore, and basically all the ingredients for a great summer read. And a narrated version for anyone who prefers audiobooks Bury your gays It has an especially assembled cast, including Mara Wilson and authors Stephen Graham Jones and T. Kingfisher.
Sharing Space: An Astronaut’s Guide to Mission, Wonder, and Making a Difference By Cady Coleman
If you’d asked me a few days ago how I thought astronauts slept on the International Space Station—I’ve never thought about it—I probably would have made a little joke about them floating in cocoons in their sleeping bags. banging against walls and furniture throughout the night. Just one page of the first chapter Location SharingFormer NASA astronaut Cady Coleman confirms that this is not so far from the truth, at least for some ISS residents:
Many astronauts tie their sleeping bags tightly to the wall and slide inside each night, but I like to sleep without my bag closed. I pull my knees to my chest, close my sleeping bag so that I’m in a ball, and literally drift off to sleep. So when I wake up, it takes me a minute to figure out where I am.
Spoiler: he wakes up under his desk. Sharing Space: An Astronaut’s Guide to Mission, Wonder, and Making a Difference takes a look at the life of an astronaut traveling in space and what it takes to get there. Coleman writes in an immediately engaging way, and this should be a fun read for anyone interested in space and looking for some inspiration.
This recommendation is a kind of two-fer. Precious Metal, From Image Comics is a new sci-fi miniseries set in a (more) dystopian version of North America in the future. It is the long awaited prequel Little birdA critically acclaimed series about resistance under an oppressive regime, published in five issues in 2019. You can get away with reading though. Precious Metal without first reading Little birdyou’d be doing yourself a disservice by skipping an impressive piece of art, so be sure to check it out sometime.
Precious Metal It takes place 35 years ago Little bird‘s story begins and follows a mod named Max Weaver, a bounty hunter of sorts, whose mission is derailed after he realizes that his ultimate goal, a child with special abilities, can help him recover his lost memories. He has instructions Blade Runner and the art is seriously breathtaking with stunning color work by Matt Hollingsworth. the first number of Precious Metalwhich is about 60 pages long, dropped in June and the latest was released this week. The full release will have a total of six issues.
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