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Jul 29, 2025 | ISBN 9780593701126

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Praise

“My favorite thing I read all year.”
—Patricia Lockwood, author of Priestdaddy and No One is Talking About This


“Mattie Lubchansky is a psychedelic clairvoyant, a cross between Philip K. Dick and R. Crumb, only with much better gender politics. Simplicity filled me with hope and wonder even in the ruins of civilization, and I’m so glad I went on this wild journey. The future is going to be weird no matter what, but Mattie Lubchansky shows us how beautiful and full of life weirdness can be. I love Simplicity in all its deceptive complexity.”
—Charlie Jane Anders, bestselling author of The City in the Middle of the Night

“Truly superb! Simplicity is a marvel, a perfect look into the ways that people can either fool themselves into accepting complicity or take the harder road that supports community; one that requires us all to make incredibly tough choices. It’s funny, heartbreaking, spellbinding, sexy, horrifying, and legitimately brilliant. Mattie Lubchansky is a genius.”
—Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things and With Teeth

“Mattie Lubchansky’s work is essential—a horny, Boschian vision of paranoia and deliverance. There is more comedy and emotion in their characters’ black punctuation-mark pupils than most cartoonists can put in a whole face. In Simplicity, they tackle extremes of bravery and cowardice, of closed-mindedness and freedom, of gender liberation, that Ursula Le Guin should have lived to see. It is a book to savor and ponder and live with until you’ve finally forgotten enough to read it again.”
—Isaac Fellman, author of Dead Collections

“The hottest, most satirically dazzling, heart-wrenchingly brilliant ecosexual call to action you’ll ever read. Simplicity’s futurelens puts desperately needed present-day hope in our sights.”
—Alissa Nutting, author of Tampa and Made for Love

“As our future looks more like a boot stomping on a human face forever, Mattie Lubchansky asks us to rid ourselves of repression and complacency in this sensual, savage satire.”
Matt Bors, author of
Justice Warriors

Simplicity by Mattie Lubchansky blends dystopian science fiction and folk horror into a queer, trans story of hard-won hope in a future as terrifying–and as ridiculous–as our present. Sexy, insightful, and darkly funny, Simplicity could be an exhibit in a future museum–one that might bear the plaque ‘We Won,’ or at least ‘They Went Down Swinging.'”
—Lindsay King-Miller, author of The Z Word

Simplicity has it all, from eroticism and ecohorror to cyberpunk dystopia and punk-rock rebellion—all illustrated in Lubchansky’s luscious and emotive style. It’s a wild ride, but also a thoughtful meditation on questions that only grow more pressing each year: How do we live, love, and stand together in a world that’s falling apart? You’ll tear through it, and immediately want to read again.”
Lincoln Michel, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms

“An ambitious, weird spectacle. Simplicity plays with a lot of our big ideas about an ending world, while maintaining an intense, engaging focus on character motion and emotion.”
—Evan Dahm, author of
The Last Delivery

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