"Every once in a while, I run into a new science fiction story that feels remarkably classic, as though it had been written at the height of some previous era and only recently discovered...[Evokes] some of the best utopias to be found in science fiction...Immensely fun and inspiring, and a welcome addition to a very long conversation." –Jake Casella Brookins,
Locus Magazine"A masterful worldbuilding feat .... Never heavy-handed or preachy, this thought-provoking work of speculative fiction is sure to linger in readers' minds."
–Publisher's Weekly, starred review"Inversion is such a pleasure to read–it is richly backgrounded and genuinely engrossing. There are full and contradictory lives here, as well as a sense of immediacy, urgency, and awe. I found real and hard-won delight in it." – Daniel Lavery, New York Times bestselling author of Texts from Jane Eyre
"Aric McBay's Inversion is a masterpiece of utopian resistance, where comprehension and cooperation are the keys to survival. The interconnected cultures of Germinal, like fire-adapted seeds, have developed into an environmental and social utopia ... It's hope in a pocket universe, where the ability to look forward and back and inward is a deliberate, sustainable choice." – Octavia Cade, author of The Impossible Resurrections of Grief