Staff Pick
Larissa Glasser's F4 is Bizzaro fiction at its best, featuring a trans bartender contending with fractured selves and wars with Internet trolls on the back of a kaiju (like, you know, Godzilla). From start to finish, it's a roller coaster of the strangest and most delicious pulp. Recommended By Cosima C., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
A cruise ship on the back of a sleeping kaiju. A transgender bartender trying to come to terms with who she is. A rift in dimensions known as The Sway. A cruel captain. A storm of turmoil, insanity, and magic is coming together and taking the ship deep into the unknown. What will Carol the bartender learn in this maddening non-place that changes bodies and minds alike into bizarre terrors? What is the sleeping monster who holds up the ship trying to tell her? What do Carol’s fractured sense of self and a community of internet trolls have to do with the sudden pull of The Sway?
About the Author
Larissa Glasser is a librarian-archivist from New England. She writes dark fiction centered on the lives of trans women, library science, and heavy metal. Her work is available in Transcendent 3: The Year's Best Transgender Themed Speculative Fiction (Lethe Press) and Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana Del Rey and Sylvia Plath (Clash Books). F4 is her debut novella. She is on Twitter @larissaeglasser.