The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion
| Title | The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion |
| Year for Search | 2017 |
| Authors | Killjoy, Margaret(b. 1982) |
| Pagination | 127 pp. |
| Date Published | 2017 |
| Publisher | Tor.com/Tom Doherty Associates |
| Place Published | New York |
| ISBN Number | 978-0-7653-9736-2 |
| Keywords | Female author, Transgender author, US author |
| Annotation | Fantasy novel that includes an anarchist eutopia, Freedom City, Iowa: “An entire town, abandoned by a dead economy and occupied by squatters and activists and anarchists” (12). But as people learned of it and moved there, one man took control, dividing the community. One man knew magic and summoned a protector spirit that killed the man, but later that spirit turns on its summoners. The rest of the novel concerns the community’s attempts to control the spirit. The |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | Transgender female author (b. 1982) |
| Full Text | 2017 Killjoy, Margaret (b. 1982). The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion. New York: Tor.com/Tom Doherty Associates. 127 pp. Fantasy novel that includes an anarchist eutopia, Freedom City, Iowa: “An entire town, abandoned by a dead economy and occupied by squatters and activists and anarchists” (12). But as people learned of it and moved there, one man took control, dividing the community. One man knew magic and summoned a protector spirit that killed the man, but later that spirit turns on its summoners. The rest of the novel concerns the community’s attempts to control the spirit. The author self-describes as a transgender woman who prefers the pronouns she/her. |
