Hey! Y’all like books?
If you like stories with queer protagonists, cool lady action heroes, hope in the midst of ruin, love in defiance of despair, cheesy military adventures, and lesbiabs who are in girlfriends and hold hands, check this shit out:
(cover art by the very cool and smart @soul-hammer)
The past lies like a nightmare over the world.
Two hundred years after the War when atomic fire rained from the skies and burned the world to cinders, human civilization has had time to rebuild within the burned-out husk of Old America. But the old terrors of the past still persist, and while some work to build a better world, others still dream of reclaiming the glory of the Old World.
In southern Appalachia, political commissar Magnolia Blackadder is sent on a mission into the irradiated Exclusion Zone of Old DC, where an evil that humanity thought it had vanquished centuries ago is waking up and rebuilding its strength. Along the way, she meets a strange woman with terrible secrets and an unspeakable past, and as they forge a bond and brave the terrors of the wasteland together, she learns that some demons are not so easily exorcised, and that some stones are better left unturned.
In this her debut novel, award-winning author Natalie Ironside delivers a new vision of the post-apocalypse, a tale of adventure, terror, love, and that most basic and most powerful of all human desires: Freedom.
The Last Girl Scout is a dystopian adventure story about queer hillbillies going on a big adventure in the irradiated ruins of Old America. If you liked Fallout or S.T.A.L.K.E.R. or all things American Gothic then I got five bucks says you’ll like this. Plus it’s got lesbians in it &and they are in love & they even hold hands.
“But Natalie,” you say, “How can I become a part of this amazing and true way?” Well, I will tell you!
Buy on Amazon: (ebook AND paperback! Wow!)
Cashapp five bucks to $NatalieIronside and include an email address and preferred file type
Message me your X number and an email address and preferred file type
(we call that Big Bill’s five-finger discout)
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Here’s what the cool youtube man has to say about this very good book:
this book is the most compelling long fiction I’ve read in years
I cannot recommend it highly enough. natalie has my heart in her hands at the moment and I’m not even 100 pages in
shucks <3