Relentless, unsentimental, a completely wild ride. An explosive and extraordinary story that I couldn't stop reading and will never forget - Everina Maxwell, author of WINTER'S ORBIT From the destruction of Earth on the first page, to the human cult on a forgotten space station, to the indoctrinated teen soldier whose narrow worldview Tesh cracks open with pliers, this book is astoundingly good. expansive story with an action-packed pace full of exciting battles and gut-wrenching twists - BOOKLIST Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group ISBN: 9780356517186 Number of pages: 448 Weight: 41 g Dimensions: 198 x 126 x 22 mm MEDIA REVIEWSīound to make waves as one of the best SF novels of 2023. 'HOLY MOTHER OF GOD I WAS NOT AT ALL PREPARED AND I AM ETERNALLY OBSESSED' 'I am legitimately not exaggerating when I say this may be my favourite book I've read in the last ten years' 'As brilliantly plotted as Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice, with characters as vivid as Martha Wells' Murderbot'

I hope you love this book as much as I do' 'Worth every page, every tear, every late night staying up to finish it. An explosive and extraordinary story that I couldn't stop reading and will never forget' Everina Maxwell, author of Winter's Orbit Harrow, New York Times-bestselling author of The Once and Future Witches

'A profoundly humane and brilliantly constructed space opera that will have you cheering, swearing, laughing, and ugly-crying. 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 Alongside her brother's brilliant but seditious friend and a lonely, captive alien, Kyr must escape from everything she's ever known. 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. 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. Some Desperate Glory is the highly anticipated debut novel from Astounding Award and World Fantasy Award-Winner, Emily Tesh.Īll her life, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the destruction of planet Earth. Le Guin and Octavia Butler'Ī 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.

'Deserves a space on shelves alongside genre titans like Ursula K. Tamsyn Muir, New York Times-bestselling author of Gideon the Ninth Relentless, unsentimental, a completely wild ride'

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh