Fr. 26.90

Some Desperate Glory - The Hugo Award-winning novel

English · Paperback / Softback

Shipping usually within 3 to 5 weeks

Description

Read more

Informationen zum Autor Emily Tesh is a UK-based author of science fiction and fantasy. Her debut novel, Some Desperate Glory , won the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Tesh is also a winner of the Astounding Award, and the author of the World Fantasy Award-winning Greenhollow duology. Klappentext 'This book is astoundingly good. An explosive and extraordinary story that I couldn't stop reading and will never forget' Everina Maxwell, author of Winter's Orbit All her life, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the destruction of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. Then Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to the nursery to bear sons, and 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 must escape from everything she's ever known. If she succeeds, she will find a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could ever have imagined Some Desperate Glory the highly anticipated debut novel from Astounding Award and World Fantasy Award-Winner, Emily Tesh; a thrillingly told space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and the path you must forge when every choice is stripped from you. 'A profoundly humane and brilliantly constructed space opera that will have you cheering, swearing, laughing, and ugly-crying. It's perfect' Alix E. Harrow, New York Times- bestselling author of The Once and Future Witches 'Masterful, audacious storytelling. Relentless, unsentimental, a completely wild ride' Tamsyn Mui r, New York Times- bestselling author of The Locked Tomb series Vorwort The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet meets Ender's Game in this gripping science fiction debut from an award-winning voice in SFF Zusammenfassung 'This book is astoundingly good. An explosive and extraordinary story that I couldn't stop reading and will never forget' Everina Maxwell, author of Winter's Orbit All her life, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the destruction of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. Then Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to the nursery to bear sons, and 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 must escape from everything she's ever known. If she succeeds, she will find a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could ever have imagined Some Desperate Glory the highly anticipated debut novel from Astounding Award and World Fantasy Award-Winner, Emily Tesh; a thrillingly told space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and the path you must forge when every choice is stripped from you. 'A profoundly humane and brilliantly constructed space opera that will have you cheering, swearing, laughing, and ugly-crying. It's perfect' Alix E. Harrow, New York Times- bestselling author of The Once and Future Witches 'Masterful, audacious storytelling. Relentless, unsentimental, a completely wild ride' Tamsyn Mui r, New York Times- bestselling author of The Locked Tomb series ...

Product details

Authors Emily Tesh
Publisher Orbit
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 06.04.2023
 
EAN 9780356521824
ISBN 978-0-356-52182-4
No. of pages 448
Dimensions 152 mm x 232 mm x 36 mm
Subjects Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy > Science fiction

Space Opera, FICTION / Science Fiction / Time Travel, FICTION / Science Fiction / Space Opera, FICTION / Science Fiction / Military, War & combat fiction, Science fiction: military, Science fiction: aliens / UFOs, Science fiction: time travel

Customer reviews

No reviews have been written for this item yet. Write the first review and be helpful to other users when they decide on a purchase.

Write a review

Thumbs up or thumbs down? Write your own review.

For messages to CeDe.ch please use the contact form.

The input fields marked * are obligatory

By submitting this form you agree to our data privacy statement.