I chatted with the authors to find out how it all came together. Genderfluid, queer knights and a gay wizard? I’m leading the whole damn parade. She pulls the proverbial Sword, this time lodged in a tree stump on Old Earth, and together with her brother Kay, Merlin, Queen Gwen, and an inclusive team of Knights, they’re off to save the galaxy. In this book, Arthur is reborn as Ari, a brave young girl searching for her origins. I remember reading Le Morte D’Arthur in the original Middle English during my college years and marveling at how complex and dramatic the stories of Arthur and his Knights were, and how many echos there are of them in stories throughout time and history.Ĭori McCarthy and Amy Rose Capetta are a real life couple who have reimagined the Arthur myth as a thrilling queer space adventure in Once & Future. If you’re anything like me, you’re a sucker for queering the canon, especially when it comes to stories so integral to our culture as the King Arthur myth is. All someone had to say were: “queer,” “retelling,” and “King Arthur”-immediately I was like, DJ, TURN IT UP, THIS IS MY JAM.
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