
Some Desperate Glory
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Emily Tesh
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'Masterful, audacious storytelling'
Tamsyn Muir, New York Times-bestselling author of Gideon the Ninth
'An outstanding novel . . . one of the debuts of the year' Locus
'Deserves a space on shelves alongside genre titans like Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia Butler'
Publishers Weekly
A thrillingly told space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and the path you must forge when every choice is stripped from you. Some Desperate Glory is the highly anticipated debut novel from Astounding Award and World Fantasy Award-Winner, Emily Tesh.
All her life, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the destruction of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet.
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. Alongside her brother's brilliant but seditious friend and a lonely, captive alien, Kyr must escape from everything she's ever known. If she succeeds, she will find a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could ever have imagined
'A profoundly humane and brilliantly constructed space opera that will have you cheering, swearing, laughing, and ugly-crying. It's perfect' Alix E. Harrow, New York Times-bestselling author of The Once and Future Witches
'This book is astoundingly good. An explosive and extraordinary story that I couldn't stop reading and will never forget' Everina Maxwell, author of Winter's Orbit
2024, Arthur C Clarke Awards, Short-listed
2024, Hugo Award Best Novel category, Short-listed
©2023 Emily Tesh (P)2023 Hachette Audio UKEverything I want from science fiction
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Very enjoyable listen!
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Good story, relaxing and distracting
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The story is not bad but lacks depth and has its inconsistencies. I didn’t find it very gripping in terms of the action, so it is a pity that the emotional, social and philosophical aspects weren’t particularly intriguing, either.
In the very beginning humans are described (or rather criticized) as a race overtly valuing individual heroism. But the book offers little beside a tale of individual heroism. The outset that a bunch of teenagers (primarily one) that grew up in a tiny fascist enclave with little to no contact to the outside world could outsmart, sabotage and ultimately fix the system of a universe inhabited by several sentient races some technologically much more advanced than humans is not very believable and rather juvenile.
The book has its good moments on overcoming indoctrination and egotistical worldviews, but even there everything appears just too easy to feel realistic.
I might have enjoyed this much more in my late teens or early twenties. Not sure, however, if I had learned much from it then.
Good performance, lacking story
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