This queer SF novel is a work of genius that tortured me. Muir's writing is wildly inventive, deadly sharp, boldly unsettling, darkly funny. It's about necromancy, lesbians, space, grief, trauma, knowledge, and power.This book demands A LOT. But when you *get it*: huge reward. Plus there's the pleasure of her sentences, so weirdly gorgeous and grotesque. One of the few pieces of fiction I've read that truly feels like a masterpiece.