Some Desperate Glory
Instant National Bestseller, International Bestseller, an Indie Next and LibraryReads Pick, with three starred reviews! In World Fantasy Award winner Emily Tesh's stunning debut novel, the Vorkosigan Saga meets Gideon the Ninth in a world inspired by Mass Effect
"Some Desperate Glory surprised me at every turn. At once a space thriller, a tale of deprogramming, and a missive on identity and meaning, the result is a vitally refreshing addition to the SFF genre. This book has earned a permanent place on my favorites shelf."āV. E. Schwab
"Masterful, audacious storytelling. Relentless, unsentimental, a completely wild ride."āTamsyn Muir
"This is the sort of debut novel every novelist hopes to write."āJohn Scalzi
"Deserves a space on shelves alongside Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia Butler."āPublishers Weekly (starred review)
National Bestseller - Sunday Times Bestseller - An Indie Next Pick - A LibraryReads Pick - a Goodreads Choice Finalist - With three starred reviews!
A Best Of Pick for The Guardian - GoodReads - Publishers Weekly - Powell's - Amazon - Barnes & Noble - Audible - Gizmodo - Book Riot - LitHub - Financial Times - Discover Sci-Fi - Locus - NPR - Library Journal
While we live, the enemy shall fear us.
Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity.
They are whatās left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. When Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to Nursery to bear sons until she dies trying, she knows she must take humanity's revenge into her own hands.
Alongside her brotherās brilliant but seditious friend and a lonely, captive alien, Kyr escapes from everything sheās known into a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could have imagined.
A thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is award-winning author Emily Teshās highly anticipated debut novel.