A Locked Tomb Mystery in Space: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Gideon the Ninth (Tor Books, September 10, 2019). Cover by Tommy Arnold The back cover of the hardcover edition of Gideon the Ninth features this assessment from writer Warren Ellis: “The author is clearly insane.” Three things made me shunt Gideon the Ninth to the front of my TBR stack. First, both my older son and his girlfriend read it, and, once finished, they promptly named their cat Harrow after one of the two main characters. Second, the cover art…