For generations, humanity has been clinging to survival by establishing colonies within enormous vacuum-breathing space beasts and mining their resources to the point of depletion. Habitable extrasolar planets are still out of reach. The Compton Crook award-winning author of The Prey of Gods and Temper returns with a dazzling stand-alone novel, set in deep space, in which the fate of humanity rests on the slender shoulders of an idealistic and untested young woman-a blend of science fiction, dark humor, and magical realism that will appeal to fans of Charlie Jane Anders, Jeff VanderMeer, and Nnedi Okorafor. Miller, Nebula-Award-winning author of The Art of Starving and Blackfish City

I loved these characters and this story, and so will you. We can only serve the continental US, Alaska, and Hawaii.Don't be alarmed - that dizzy pleasurable sensation you're experiencing is just your brain slowly exploding from all the wild magnificent worldbuilding in Nicky Drayden's Escaping Exodus. But when they stumble upon a discovery that can transform their world, they know they must prepare to fight a battle where there can be no winners, only survivors. He has fallen for the one woman he is forbidden to love: his wife, Seske.ĭoka and Seske must work closely together to sway the other Zenzee worlds to stop their cycles of destruction. For Doka, the stakes are bigger and more personal than ever before-and could cost him his reign and his heart. When a cataclysmic event on another Zenzee world forces Doka and his people to accept thousands of refugees, a culture clash erupts, revealing secrets from the past that could endanger their future.

Despite vocal opposition and blatant attacks on his authority, Doka has continued to handle his position with grace and intelligence he knows a single misstep means disaster.

The Senate allowed Doka to lead their people believing he'd fail spectacularly-a disaster that would cement the legitimacy of their long-standing matriarchy. Thanks to careful oversight and sacrifice by all of its crew, they are now on the brink of utopia, and yet Doka's rivals feel threatened by that success. Abused and exploited by humans for generations, these majestic animals nearly went extinct, but under the command of its newly minted ruler, Doka Kaleigh, life in the Parados I has flourished. Nearly a thousand years removed from Earth, the remnants of humanity cling to existence inside giant, space faring creatures known as the Zenzee. The Compton Crook Award-winning author weaves her trademark blend of science fiction and dark humor in this dazzling story that continues the imaginative saga begun in Escaping Exodus, in which a society lives in the belly of a beast-and an entire civilization's survival depends on a pair of uneasy allies who must come together for one epic battle.

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