
If you like the tone of Hitchiker’s Guide or Monty Python, but you want diverse LGBT characters? You’re gonna love this book. The whole thing had a wacky space opera vibe to it. It’s also pure comedy, mixed in with real and fierce criticism of everything from capitalism to twenty-first century lgbtq+phobia. It’s been centuries now, and he’s a teenager now, ready to break the cycle that keeps reincarnating Arthur and end this once and for all. Merlin wakes up from a deep sleep, again, and he’s getting younger with every reincarnation.

When they chase her into the preserved Old Earth, she ends up pulling a weird sword from a weird stone and reveals that, somehow, she’s the reincarnation of King Arthur and Excalibur has a fate for her. Merlin’s back, and this time he’s… seventeen?Īri Helix is on the run from the tyrannical Mercer corporation.King Arthur’s back, and this time she’s got no time for your shit.space gays overthrow the capitalist monopoly.

This series is so funny, and you can just tell that the authors had a lot of fun writing it. I requested Sword in the Stars on Netgalley, not realising that it was the second in a series, so once I got accepted I picked up the first one and thought I’d give it a try.

It’s a torch that you keep burning, no matter what.” “That’s what resistance looks like, Merlin.
