Some Desperate Glory (Tor.com, April 11, 2023). Cover by Cynthia Sheppard.

I’m hearing good things about Emily Tesh’s debut novel Some Desperate Glory, coming next month from Tor.com.

Tesh won a World Fantasy Award for Silver in the Wood, the first novella in her Greenhollow Duology, also published by Tor.com. Some Desperate Glory is the tale of the warrior Kyr, raised among the scraps of humanity to avenge the death of the planet Earth, and what happens when she’s thrust into a universe far more complicated than she was taught. Library Journal proclaims it “A monumental journey,” and Booklist says it’s “One of the best sf novels of 2023… with an action-packed pace full of exciting battles and gut-wrenching twists.”

Here’s a longer snippet from that Booklist article.

All her life, Kyr has worked to become the perfect soldier. She believes more than anything in the mission of Gaea Station to finish the war against the majoda and its unstoppable technology, the Wisdom, which once destroyed planet Earth. But when her brother Mags disappears from the station, and her assignment goes horribly wrong, Kyr decides to go rogue. Tesh’s epic space opera is bound to make waves as one of the best sf novels of 2023. Fans of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power will fall hard for this story of a girl bred to be a killer and desperate to prove herself, only to discover she’s fighting for the wrong side… [an] expansive story with an action-packed pace full of exciting battles and gut-wrenching twists.

Some Desperate Glory will be published by Tor.com on April 11. It is 448 pages, priced at $28.99. The cover is by Cynthia Sheppard.

Read a lengthy excerpt at io9.

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