You Bright and Risen Angels is a 1987 novel by William T. Vollmann, detailing a fictional war between insects and the forces of modern civilization. Vollmann described the book, his first, as "an allegory in part", inspired by his experiences with the mujahedeen in Afghanistan. The novel is subtitled "A Cartoon." It is illustrated by the author.

Vollman did not have a literary agent when he submitted the manuscript of the book to publishers.^[1] Vollman has said he used a "'writing by-the-yard' approach" to the novel and that it could have been "ten thousand pages longer".^[2]