Literature & Fiction
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Some Desperate Glory
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 highly anticipated debut novel.
"Masterful, audacious storytelling. Relentless, unsentimental, a completely wild ride."―Tamsyn Muir
"Deserves a space on shelves alongside Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia Butler."―Publishers Weekly (starred review)
With three starred reviews!
Now an Indie Next Pick!
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.
"Masterful, audacious storytelling. Relentless, unsentimental, a completely wild ride."―Tamsyn Muir
"Deserves a space on shelves alongside Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia Butler."―Publishers Weekly (starred review)
With three starred reviews!
Now an Indie Next Pick!
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.
Editorial Reviews
From World Fantasy and Astounding Award Winner Emily Tesh
With three starred reviews!
A Most Anticipated Book of the Year for GoodReads, Bookish, New Scientist, FanFiAddict, and Nerd Daily
Praise for Some Desperate Glory
"Some Desperate Glory is honest, unflinchingly so. This book will hurt you and you will say thank you. It has everything you'd want in a queer space opera―wit and imagination and adventure, all within a brilliantly constructed world with an ‘unlikable' and wholly irresistible lead. Reading this feels like bearing witness to something revolutionary... It will change you for the better."―Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six
"Masterful, audacious storytelling. Relentless, unsentimental, a completely wild ride. I had a time. Talk about Mass Effect beating up Brave New World in a dark alley."―Tamsyn Muir, New York Times bestselling author of The Locked Tomb series
"Tesh crams in enough wild inventiveness for an entire trilogy, wrapped around an emotional core that's powerful and urgent and unmistakeably real."― M. R. Carey, author of The Girl with All the Gifts
"Kyr is a revelatory hero―never have I so fervently wished the worst for someone, only to end up cheering for them... Fierce and heartbreakingly humane, this book is for everyone who loved Ender's Game, but Ender's Game didn't love them back."―Shelley Parker-Chan, Sunday Times bestselling au...
With three starred reviews!
A Most Anticipated Book of the Year for GoodReads, Bookish, New Scientist, FanFiAddict, and Nerd Daily
Praise for Some Desperate Glory
"Some Desperate Glory is honest, unflinchingly so. This book will hurt you and you will say thank you. It has everything you'd want in a queer space opera―wit and imagination and adventure, all within a brilliantly constructed world with an ‘unlikable' and wholly irresistible lead. Reading this feels like bearing witness to something revolutionary... It will change you for the better."―Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six
"Masterful, audacious storytelling. Relentless, unsentimental, a completely wild ride. I had a time. Talk about Mass Effect beating up Brave New World in a dark alley."―Tamsyn Muir, New York Times bestselling author of The Locked Tomb series
"Tesh crams in enough wild inventiveness for an entire trilogy, wrapped around an emotional core that's powerful and urgent and unmistakeably real."― M. R. Carey, author of The Girl with All the Gifts
"Kyr is a revelatory hero―never have I so fervently wished the worst for someone, only to end up cheering for them... Fierce and heartbreakingly humane, this book is for everyone who loved Ender's Game, but Ender's Game didn't love them back."―Shelley Parker-Chan, Sunday Times bestselling au...
