Books by Sarah Pinsker

“It’s a love song to watching and performing music live, and more broadly to making something, however small, rather than passively consuming. It’s a zippy read, driven by the page-turning missteps and misunderstandings. In amongst that, the sci fi elements – the near-future tech, and the implied commentary on our own direction of travel – are easily absorbed and believed.” Read more...

The Best Sci Fi Novels of the Past Decade

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Sci-fi author and translator Ken Liu recommended A Song for A New Day when we asked him to recommend the best speculative fiction, explaining that it “imagines a world in which a plague has caused all of us to become isolated. Everyone is living like a hermit, working from home, eating at home, studying at home, and there are no large-scale gatherings anymore.” In this world, illegal concert-goers find themselves united by their passion for music—just as, in Station Eleven, the survivors of a deadly pandemic take comfort from the genius of Shakespeare. “Sarah draws on her experiences as a professional musician to portray why that matters,” explained Liu, “and to give people a sense of the potential of resistance in live music.”

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