Dead Boys in Space

Winner of the 2023 Pamet River Prize from YesYes Books. 

The question is not why my brother had to die. The question is how do I save him?

Exploring the AIDS crisis, space colonization, and earth-bound lesbianism, DEAD BOYS IN SPACE uses poetry, speculative fiction, sci-fi, and crip queer politics to ask: what if a generation of gay men didn't die of AIDS? What if their exile was actually escape? And what happened to the family they left behind?

Told from the perspective of a sister mourning her brother-one she never knew-Sara Youngblood Gregory's startling debut, DEAD BOYS IN SPACE, is a testament to anger and love, sex and sickness, grief and family.

In DEAD BOYS IN SPACE, Sara Youngblood Gregory deftly grapples with queer and feminist histories refracting them through personal experience and poetic experiments. It is a marvel to behold.

-Julie R. Enszer, author of Pinko Commie Dyke