Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. 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.

Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Le Guin and Octavia Butler.'- Publishers Weekly (starred review)Īn Indie Next Pick | A LibraryReads Pick | With three starred reviews!Ī Most Anticipated Book of the Year for LitHub, GoodReads, Bookish, New Scientist, FanFiAddict, and Nerd Daily | a Spring Book Pick for Library Journal | Summer Book Pick for Publishers WeeklyĪ Best Of Pick for The Guardian | Publishers Weekly | Amazon | Financial Times 'Deserves a space on shelves alongside Ursula K.

'This is the sort of debut novel every novelist hopes to write.'-John Scalzi Relentless, unsentimental, a completely wild ride.'-Tamsyn Muir

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.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. 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. Now an Indie Next Pick! A Most Anticipated Book of the Year for LitHub, GoodReads, Bookish, New Scientist, FanFiAddict, and Nerd Daily, a Spring Book Pick for Library Journal, and a Summer Book Pick for Publishers Weekly While we live, the enemy shall fear us. Le Guin and Octavia Butler.'- Publishers Weekly (starred review) With three starred reviews! 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.

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh