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Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

At the time of writing this post I’m 4% into this ARC, so I don’t have a lot of first impressions to mention quite yet. But so far I find the writing style engaging and a lot easier to follow than the other queer space opera I tried to read last December. I look forward to completing my first sci-fi read in a while that isn’t Ice Planet Barbarians related. (I tried one book. Entertaining, but not for me.)

About the Book

Author: Emily Tesh
Series: None
Age Category: Adult
Publisher: Tordotcom
Publish Date: April 11, 2023
Print Length: 448

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 and Crawford Award Finalist Emily Tesh’s highly anticipated debut novel.

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 what’s 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 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.