Dreadnought

, #1

Pocketbok, 280 sidor

På English

Publicerades 24 januari 2017 av Diversion Publishing.

ISBN:
978-1-68230-068-8
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Goodreads:
30279514

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Until Dreadnought fell out of the sky and died right in front of her, Danny was trying to keep people from finding out she’s transgender. But before he expired, Dreadnought passed his mantle to her, and those secondhand superpowers transformed Danny’s body into what she’s always thought it should be. Now there’s no hiding that she’s a girl.

It should be the happiest time of her life, but Danny’s first weeks finally living in a body that fits her are more difficult and complicated than she could have imagined. Between her father’s dangerous obsession with “curing” her girlhood, her best friend suddenly acting like he’s entitled to date her, and her fellow superheroes arguing over her place in their ranks, Danny feels like she’s in over her head.

She doesn’t have much time to adjust. Dreadnought’s murderer—a cyborg named Utopia—still haunts the streets of New Port City, threatening …

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Superheroes aren't even my thing but I really enjoyed Dreadnought. It's got some solid worldbuilding, itself undergirded by a sophisticated but still compassionate worldview. Characters are well drawn and even if they are derived from tropes, their development delves underneath those tropes to reveal complexities underneath.

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  • Superheroes
  • Transgender Literature