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"Dark academia at its most oppressive and intense."― The New York Times A Most Anticipated Pick for Buzzfeed The Two Doctors Górski is a dazzling contemporary fantasy and an exploration of reclaiming personal power in the aftermath of abuse by Lambda Award-winning author Isaac Fellman. Annae, a brilliant graduate student in psychiatric magic and survivor of academic abuse, can’t stop reading people’s minds. This is how she protects herself, by using her abilities to know exactly how her colleagues view her. This is how she escapes the torturous experience of her own existence. When Annae moves to England to rebuild her life and finish her studies under the seminal magician Marec Górski―infamous for bringing to life a homunculus made from his unwanted better self―she sees, inside his head, a man who is both a destructive force to everyone around him, and her mirror image. For Annae to survive, she’ll need to break free of a lifetime of conditioning to embody her own self and forge her own path.
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this book is so good, all other books should give up.
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Taut, vibrant, haunting; every word hums, every moment sears. A gorgeously crafted indictment of academia, with an intriguing fantastical element that skillfully heightens the tension and the themes of abuse and ambition and knowledge and intimacy and trauma and escape. I found the brevity of the novella worked perfectly for me; while the magic-as-a-science world is certainly one I'd like to know more about, I don't think this specific story would be well served by giving too much, too straightforwardly. I read The Two Doctors Górski a month ago, at this point, and I've thought about it every day since. Brilliant and compelling, and one I highly recommend.
Thank you Tordotcom for the advance review copy!