At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Alongside her brother’s brilliant but seditious friend and a lonely, captive alien, Kyr escapes from everything she’s known into a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could have imagined. It’s an intensely character-driven story about survival and escape and growth a story that begins. 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. Said author Emily Tesh: Some Desperate Glory is the most ambitious book I have ever written. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. 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. Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Le Guin and Octavia Butler.'- Publishers Weekly (starred review) An Indie Next Pick | A LibraryReads Pick | With three starred reviews! A Most Anticipated Book of the Year for LitHub, GoodReads, Bookish, New Scientist, FanFiAddict, and Nerd Daily | a Spring Book Pick for Library Journal | Summer Book Pick for Publishers Weekly A Best Of Pick for The Guardian | Publishers Weekly | Amazon While we live, the enemy shall fear us. Relentless, unsentimental, a completely wild ride.'-Tamsyn Muir 'This is the sort of debut novel every novelist hopes to write.'-John Scalzi 'Deserves a space on shelves alongside Ursula K. But she soon learns that not everything she’s been raised to believe is true, and the Wisdom is far more complex and dangerous than she could ever have imagined.Ĭoming April 2023, SOME DESPERATE GLORY is a thrillingly told space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you.Ĭover artwork by Tegnemaskin.Instant National Bestseller 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 Astounding Award Winner Emily Tesh’s explosive debut novel. 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 in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet.

We’re delighted to share the cover for Emily’s Tesh’s debut novel, SOME DESPERATE GLORY.Īll her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the destruction of planet Earth by an all-powerful, reality-shifting weapon known as the Wisdom.

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh