The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy pits utopian anarchists against rogue demon deer in this dropkick-in-the-mouth punk fantasy that Alan Moore calls "scary and energetic." Searching for clues about her best friend's mysterious suicide, Danielle ventures to the squatter, utopian town of Freedom, Iowa, and witnesses a protector spirit, in the form of a blood-red, three-antlered deer, begin to turn on its summoners. She and her new friends have to act fast if they're going to save the town, or get out alive.
"Fast, eerie and crackling with disarmingly matter-of-fact phantasmagoria, Margaret Killjoy's The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion maps a wilderness peopled by marginalised outsiders where everything from sexual identity to material reality is in the same state of fluid drift. Intelligent and fiercely imagined, this book is a passport to a world hauntingly similar to our own, in which disturbing unreality appears to have become an accepted universal condition that is scarcely worth mentioning. Scary and energetic, this is ideal reading for a winter's evening in a post-truth world. Highly recommended."
Alan Moore, author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta
"Packed with mystery, suspense, intriguing characters, a dash of humor, and big helpings of anarchist politics, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion does what the best fantasy is supposed to do, making ideas literal--in this case, incarnating Justice as a wild beast. This is important, thought-provoking stuff and a thrilling ride besides."
World Fantasy Award-winning author Lewis Shiner
"A dark story of the human need for power. Margaret Killjoy writes of the inner nature of anarchy at a time when old systems of government are breaking down. Read it now."
