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Instant National Bestseller and International Bestseller!
Hugo Award Winner!
Arthur C. Clarke Award Finalist!
Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction Finalist!
A thrillingly
told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find,
and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is Astounding Award Winner Emily Tesh's explosive debut novel.
"Some Desperate Glory surprised me at every turn. At once a
space thriller, a tale of deprogramming, and a missive on identity and
meaning, the result is a vitally refreshing addition to the SFF genre.
This book has earned a permanent place on my favorites shelf."--V. E.
Schwab
"Masterful, audacious storytelling. Relentless, unsentimental, a completely wild ride."--Tamsyn Muir
"This is the sort of debut novel every novelist hopes to write."--John Scalzi
"Deserves a space on shelves alongside Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia Butler."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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While we live, the enemy shall fear us.
Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge
the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station
alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the
Wisdom, the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the majoda their
victory over humanity.
They are what's left. They are what
must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation,
the sword of a dead planet. When Command assigns her brother to certain
death and relegates her to Nursery to bear sons until she dies trying,
she knows she must take humanity's revenge into her own hands.
Alongside her brother's brilliant but seditious friend and a
lonely, captive alien, Kyr escapes from everything she's known into a
universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous
than she could have imagined.
Synopsis
Instant National Bestseller and International Bestseller
Hugo Award Winner for Best Novel
Arthur C. Clarke Award Finalist
Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction Finalist
A thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is Astounding Award Winner Emily Tesh's explosive debut novel.
"Some Desperate Glory surprised me at every turn. At once a space thriller, a tale of deprogramming, and a missive on identity and meaning, the result is a vitally refreshing addition to the SFF genre. This book has earned a permanent place on my favorites shelf."--V. E. Schwab
"Masterful, audacious storytelling. Relentless, unsentimental, a completely wild ride."--Tamsyn Muir
"This is the sort of debut novel every novelist hopes to write."--John Scalzi
"Deserves a space on shelves alongside Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia Butler."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
National Bestseller Sunday Times Bestseller An Indie Next Pick A LibraryReads Pick a Goodreads Choice Finalist With three starred reviews
A Best Of Pick for The Guardian GoodReads Publishers Weekly Powell's Amazon Barnes & Noble Audible Gizmodo Book Riot LitHub Financial Times Discover Sci-Fi Locus NPR Library Journal
While we live, the enemy shall fear us.
Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity.
They are what's left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. When Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to Nursery to bear sons until she dies trying, she knows she must take humanity's revenge into her own hands.
Alongside her brother's brilliant but seditious friend and a lonely, captive alien, Kyr escapes from everything she's known into a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could have imagined.
About the Author
EMILY TESH, winner of the Astounding Award and a Crawford Award
finalist, is the author of the World Fantasy Award-winning Greenhollow
Duology, which begins with the novella
Silver in the Wood and concludes with
Drowned Country.
Some Desperate Glory is her first novel.