"Jarboe's outstanding debut collection demonstrates a flair for queer surrealism and an ear for lyrical prose." - Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Reading this book one discovers how the tools of speculative and fantasy fiction can be so essential to queer expression. In the end, Jarboe is able to honestly grapple with this world, as a great artist will, for what other mother do we have?" - Lambda Literary Review

"There is no greater joy in genre fiction than finding a book that attempts to tug the status quo toward something new, and Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel is one of those books. Julian K. Jarboe is exactly the voice we need in genre fiction." - Locus Magazine

"This slim collection of only 222 pages draws on myth, fairy tale, apocalyptic visions of the future - capitalism and climate change gone further awry, and a necessary dose of dark humor." - The Seattle Review of Books