Notes from a Regicide is a heartbreaking story of trans self-discovery with a rich relatability and a science-fictional twist from award-winning author Isaac Fellman.

When your parents die, you find out who they really were.

Griffon Keming’s second parents saved him from his abusive family. They taught him how to be trans, paid for his transition, and tried to love him as best they could. But Griffon’s new parents had troubles of their own – both were deeply scarred by the lives they lived before Griffon, the struggles they faced to become themselves, and the failed revolution that drove them from their homeland. When they died, they left an unfillable hole in his heart.

Griffon’s best clue to his parents’ lives is in his father’s journal, written from a jail cell while he awaited execution. Stained with blood, grief, and tears, these pages struggle to contain the love story of two artists on fire. With the journal in hand, Griffon hopes to pin down his relationship to these wonderful and strange people for whom time always seemed to be running out.

In Notes from a Regicide, a trans family saga set in a far-off, familiar future, Isaac Fellman goes beyond the concept of found family to examine how deeply we can be healed and hurt by those we choose to love.

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Praise for this book

“A delicate, ardent portrait of two aging trans revolutionaries and the son they never expected.” —Jenn Shapland, National Book Award finalist

“A glittering, empathetic story about the pains and pleasures of loving eccentrics....Marvellous, and heart-breakingly unsentimental.” —Jennifer Giesbrecht, author of The Monster of Elendhaven

“Notes from a Regicide is a dazzling meditation on art and desire....it is also quite simply the best kind of book there is—dangerous because it is beautiful, and because it is true.” —Jedediah Berry, author of The Manual of Detection and The Naming Song

“Unapologetically queer, [Notes from a Regicide] is a somber, joyful treat of a tale that clearly comes from a place of knowing, and one that will linger in your memory.” —Kit Mayquist, author of Tripping Arcadia

“A unique and powerful book, perfectly blending fiction and memoir....Triumphantly painful and beautiful in equal measures.” —Caitlin Starling, author of Last to Leave the Room

“Weird, wonderful, and warm without ever losing its bite. Notes from a Regicide [is]...a messy labyrinth of heart-wrenching, lived-in detail.” —Mattie Lubchansky, author of Boys Weekend

“This novel is a revolving door of love and revolution, spinning so quick, the two become indistinguishable, the kind of book that propels a generation.” —Emme Lund, author of The Boy with a Bird in his Chest

More Praise for Isaac Fellman

“[A] thoughtful, acerbic, bracingly hopeful book.”—The New York Times on Dead Collections

“Utterly refreshing and thrilling. Dead Collections is a marvel that left me feeling as if miracles might lurk behind every doorway and inside every old box of papers.” —Charlie Jane Anders

“Unique and emotionally deep.” —Kirkus Reviews on Dead Collections

“This is dark academia at its most oppressive and intense. . . marvelously staged and meticulously examined.” —The New York Times on The Two Doctors Górski

“Confident and lyrical, The Two Doctors Górski is an academic gut-punch. A superb blend of the devastatingly familiar and exquisitely fantastical.” —Caitlin Starling, best-selling author of The Death of Jane Lawrence

“Wonderful voice, memorable characters and very interesting metaphysics. Couldn't put it down.” —Jo Walton on The Two Doctors Górski

“This brilliant, haunting tale packs a punch.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review on The Two Doctors Górski

“Fellman continues to showcase a skill for capturing psychological depths with flashing concision. . . . a new direction in Fellman's already impressive use of the speculative to think through questions of identity.” —Locus on The Two Doctors Górski

“An introspective masterpiece of low fantasy. . .[and] literary fantasy at its finest, a deeply contemplative and multilayered novel that explores the real psychological struggles of identity, imposter syndrome, and the trials of academic life.” —Grimdark Magazine on The Two Doctors Górski




About the AuthorIsaac Fellman is the author of Dead Collections as well as The Breath of the Sun (published under his previous name), which won the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for queer science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He is an archivist at the GLBT Historical Society.
Title: Notes from a Regicide
Author(s): Isaac Fellman
ISBN: 9781250329110
Copyright 2025
Release Date: April 15, 2025
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
Countries: United States, Canada | Learn more about available countries
Language: English
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