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Lesbian & Sapphic FictionQueer Science FictionLGBTQ+ Young Adult

Upright Women Wanted

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  • 2020 first published
  • 176 pages
  • ★ 3.8 (10 ratings)
  • 4 editions
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Upright Women Wanted is a 2020 sapphic fiction and queer science fiction novel by Sarah Gailey and Romy Nordlinger. Much of the action takes place in Western US and Utah. Readers will find themes of Pulp Western, Queer, librarians and Revolution.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.8 out of 5 from 10 ratings, and 26 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 4 editions.

At about 176 pages, most readers finish it in 3–4 hours.

About Upright Women Wanted

“That girl’s got more wrong notions than a barn owl’s got mean looks.” Esther is a stowaway. She’s hidden herself away in the Librarian’s book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her—a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda. The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the right thing.
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Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Subjects

  • Pulp Western
  • Queer
  • Librarians
  • Revolution
  • Antifacism
  • LGBTQ young adult
  • Dystopian
  • Action & adventure science fiction
  • Women librarians
  • Lesbians
  • Twenty-first century
  • Forecasts
  • Regression, Civilization
  • Female friendship
  • FICTION / Dystopian
  • FICTION / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure

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Who wrote Upright Women Wanted?

Upright Women Wanted was written by Sarah Gailey and Romy Nordlinger and first published in 2020.

What genre is Upright Women Wanted?

It is usually shelved as Lesbian & Sapphic Fiction, Queer Science Fiction, LGBTQ+ Young Adult and Adventure.

How long is Upright Women Wanted?

The median edition has 176 pages, about 3–4 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Upright Women Wanted?

Readers who like it often enjoy Not Your Sidekick, Final Strife and Harrow the Ninth.

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