diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index 2f1aaa7a..6783b7d9 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
   :java-source-paths ["src-java"]
   :source-paths ["src"]
   :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.9.0"]
-                 [borkdude/edamame "0.0.7"]
+                 [borkdude/edamame "0.0.8-alpha.2"]
                  [org.clojure/tools.reader "1.3.2"]]
   :aot [sci.impl.java]
   :profiles {:clojure-1.9.0 {:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.9.0"]]}
diff --git a/src/sci/core.cljc b/src/sci/core.cljc
index 6b6d8f44..44fe8af5 100644
--- a/src/sci/core.cljc
+++ b/src/sci/core.cljc
@@ -29,7 +29,9 @@
 
   - `:preset`: a pretermined set of options. Currently only
   `:termination-safe` is supported, which will set `:realize-max` to
-  `100` and disallows the symbols `loop`, `recur` and `trampoline`."
+  `100` and disallows the symbols `loop`, `recur` and `trampoline`.
+
+  - `:features`: when provided a non-empty set of keywords, sci will process reader conditionals using these features (e.g. #{:bb})."
   ([s] (eval-string s nil))
   ([s opts]
    (i/eval-string s opts)))
diff --git a/src/sci/impl/interpreter.cljc b/src/sci/impl/interpreter.cljc
index 968e6b73..91f115f4 100644
--- a/src/sci/impl/interpreter.cljc
+++ b/src/sci/impl/interpreter.cljc
@@ -366,7 +366,8 @@
   ([s] (eval-string s nil))
   ([s opts]
    (let [init-ctx (opts->ctx opts)
-         edn-vals (p/parse-string-all s)
+         features (:features opts)
+         edn-vals (p/parse-string-all s features)
          ret (eval-edn-vals init-ctx edn-vals)]
      ret)))
 
diff --git a/src/sci/impl/parser.cljc b/src/sci/impl/parser.cljc
index c7e2bd0f..e7a1ffaa 100644
--- a/src/sci/impl/parser.cljc
+++ b/src/sci/impl/parser.cljc
@@ -24,8 +24,13 @@
 (defn parse-string [s]
   (edamame/parse-string s opts))
 
-(defn parse-string-all [s]
-  (edamame/parse-string-all s opts))
+(defn parse-string-all
+  ([s]
+   (edamame/parse-string-all s opts))
+  ([s features]
+   (edamame/parse-string-all s (assoc opts
+                                      :read-cond :allow
+                                      :features features))))
 
 ;;;; Scratch
 
diff --git a/test/sci/core_test.cljc b/test/sci/core_test.cljc
index 7077ffa4..6e2cd596 100644
--- a/test/sci/core_test.cljc
+++ b/test/sci/core_test.cljc
@@ -449,6 +449,10 @@
   (is (= [1 2] (eval* "(declare foo bar) (defn f [] [foo bar]) (def foo 1) (def bar 2) (f)")))
   (is (= 1 (eval* "(def x 1) (declare x) x"))))
 
+(deftest reader-conditionals
+  (is (= 6 (tu/eval* "(+ 1 2 #?(:bb 3 :clj 100))" {:features #{:bb}})))
+  (is (= 103 (tu/eval* "(+ 1 2 #?(:bb 3 :clj 100))" {:features #{:clj}}))))
+
 ;;;; Scratch
 
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