I was on a plane, I thought ‘two girls at Goth boarding school… dislike each other intensely,' and that was that. It was absolutely not a long-cherished dream or something I’d been jotting in notebooks for years, romantic as that would be. Gideon had never entered my head until about a week before I started writing it. We were thrilled to sit down and talk with Muir about the difficulty of maintaining the threads of a complex universe, writing about fierce women, and what would happen if she took her characters to a theme park. And now, with the September 13th release of Nona the Ninth, we'll meet Nona, just a girl who wants to have a birthday party-but the universe has other plans. The mythology was stunning, the allegory delightful, and let’s not forget the memes.Ī year later, readers were thrown into the mind of Harrowhark Nonagesimus with Harrow the Ninth. With sentences sharp as the blades on the cover, readers were entranced by the complex world Muir created with the first book in the Locked Tomb series. And sure, those helped capture readers' curiosity, but it was Tamsyn Muir’s prose that quickly created devout acolytes swearing their allegiance to the Ninth House. Or the badass woman on the cover boldly wielding a sword while sporting a pair of sunglasses. Maybe it was the irresistible tagline: lesbian necromancers in space. When Gideon the Ninth was released in September 2019, it took the book world by storm.

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