Carey, author of The Girl with All the Gifts 'Tesh crams in enough wild inventiveness for an entire trilogy, wrapped around an emotional core that's powerful and urgent and unmistakably real.'- M. 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 Relentless, unsentimental, a completely wild ride. Spectacular from page one.'-John Scalzi, New York Times bestselling author of The Kaiju Preservation Society 'This is the sort of debut novel every novelist hopes to write. It will change you for the better.'-Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six

Reading this feels like bearing witness to something revolutionary. 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. This book will hurt you and you will say thank you. 'Some Desperate Glory is honest, unflinchingly so.

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.Īlongside 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.Ī Best Of Pick for The Guardian | Publishers Weekly | Amazon 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 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 by Emily Tesh