Dec 6th's choice for best new #SFF hardbacks this year: The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social is a sumptuous, monstrous tale of horror, unnatural pests, a rotting fantastical city, court politics, and layers upon layers.

Visceral and unnervingly entrancing!

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oh my god hahah

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I want a version of Hot Ones but it's insect stings honestly

Thank you @erisyoung.bsky.social

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Vermin is the Yamigara Fault Hole but at the end you come out as a gorgeous iridescent bug

Because the most frightening elements are the mundane--isolation, boredom, precarity, a kind of misty social veil that hides us from ourselves and each other, and of course, the astoundingly creepy fact that BR Yeager seems to have grown up in the exact same run-down town I did (and you did!)