The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

Recently I had a pretty delightful conversation that started from the question “What’s your lesbian necromancer science-fantasy book?” This referred, of course, to Tamsyn Muir’s first novel Gideon the Ninth , which I had just finished describing to my interlocutors with hand-waving enthusiasm, but also metonymically to the general class of “things one can’t help but employ gesticulation when…