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“Some Desperate Glory starts as a convincing, straightforward yarn about an outpost of human survivors on a space station, Gaea. Earth has been destroyed by an all-knowing benevolent AI, the Wisdom, and the humans left behind are righteously angry. No-one is more committed to their vengeful cause than our hero, Valkyr…The Chicago Review of Books said that ‘it’s hard to overstate how good this novel is at what it’s doing'” Read more...
“Much of humanity has been wiped out by an alien species, with a surviving rump of humanity divided into the military and ‘breeders.’ Seventeen-year-old Kyr learns that she has been assigned to reproduction, whilst her brother has been given a suicide mission – but may have defected. She sets off to track him down, and in the process discovers that the situation isn’t quite as she’s been led to believe. Tesh’s novel takes a sharp left turn a couple of times, which is brave, but I think she pulls it off.” Read more...
The Best Science Fiction: The 2024 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist
Andrew M. Butler, Film Critics & Scholar
“Some Desperate Glory is a science fiction book that has been compared to Ender’s Game. It is about what happens after the world wasn’t saved. This book starts with the main character, who’s a young soldier, desperately trying to stop the weapon that is coming to destroy Earth, and she fails. This is chapter one.” Read more...
The Best Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy
Everina Maxwell, Novelist
