Plutoshine - Shortlisted for the 2023 Arthur C. Clarke Award

A mysterious accident on Pluto has left one girl mute, her father comatose, and her brother damaged and altered. But their barren world is changing around them, and secrets can't be kept forever...

About the author

Lucy Kissick wrote Plutoshine while completing her doctorate at the University of Oxford, where she recreated Martian lakes in the laboratory to understand the planet's atmosphere. She now works as a scientist in the nuclear industry between the mountains and the sea of the English Lake District, and can usually be found in either.

Summary

A mysterious accident on Pluto has left one girl mute, her father comatose, and her brother damaged and altered. But their barren world is changing around them, and secrets can't be kept forever...

Foreword

A mysterious accident on Pluto has left one girl mute, her father comatose, and her brother damaged and altered. But their barren world is changing around them, and secrets can't be kept forever...

Additional text

Adventurous SF that pushes the envelope and asks big questions. Lucy Kissick is the next big thing in space.

Product details

• Authors: Lucy Kissick
• Publisher: Gollancz
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.03.2022
• EAN: 9781473233140
• ISBN: 978-1-4732-3314-0
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 236 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; FICTION / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Science fiction: near-future, Science fiction: apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic, pluto; terraforming; mars; outer space; phd, Science fiction: near future