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R.B. Lemberg

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R.B. Lemberg is a queer, bigender immigrant from Eastern Europe to the US. R.B.'s Birdverse novella The Four Profound Weaves (Tachyon, 2020) is a finalist for the Nebula, Ignyte, Locus, and World Fantasy awards, as well as an Otherwise Award honoree. R.B.'s poetry memoir Everything Thaws will be published by Ben Yehuda Press in 2022. Their stories and poems have appeared in Lightspeed Magazine’s Queers Destroy Science Fiction!, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, We Are Here: Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020, Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction
Anthology, and many other venues. You can find R.B. on Twitter at @rb_lemberg, on Patreon at http://patreon.com/rblemberg, and at their websites rblemberg.net and birdverse.net.
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New poetry book EVERYTHING THAWS is out! + Locus poll

My poetry memoir, EVERYTHING THAWS, is now available from Ben Yehuda Press! This book has been a long time coming, and it contains some of the most personal work I have ever written. It has migrations, and permafrost, and many Gulag stories, and an ice dragon. It’s a very Jewish book.

You can order the book directly from the publisher with free shipping within the US! They also have a trans visibil

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	The Four Profound Weaves 3.78 avg rating — 1,263 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uncanny Magazine Issue 2: January/February 2015 by Lynne M. Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael Damian Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michi Trota (Editor) 3.84 avg rating — 1,021 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nightmare Magazine 37: October 2015. Queers Destroy Horror! Special Issue by Wendy N. Wagner (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Caitlín R. Kiernan (Contributor) 4.10 avg rating — 707 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 61, June 2015: Queers Destroy Science Fiction! by Seanan McGuire (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John Chu (Contributor), Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.93 avg rating — 404 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unbalancing 4.06 avg rating — 355 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Long List Anthology Volume 2: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List by David Steffen, Nicola Griffith (Goodreads Author), Megan Grey (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 258 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yoke of Stars 4.21 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Geometries of Belonging: Stories and Poems from the Birdverse 4.04 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everything Thaws: A poetic cycle 4.88 avg rating — 16 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Climbing Lightly Through Forests: A Poetry Anthology Honoring Ursula K. Le Guin by R.B. Lemberg (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lisa M. Bradley (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.69 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I yearned, see. This feeling that [you] people express with a verb. But you [people] do not mark the direction of yearning, leaving it meaningless, floundering.”
― R.B. Lemberg, Yoke of Stars

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October Book of the Month Poll

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

11 votes, 23.4%

Dark Space by Lisa Henry

11 votes, 23.4%

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6 votes, 12.8%

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

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