Quote:🌞 Michael Crichton meets Marvel's Venom in award-winning author Seth Dickinson's science fiction debut
"🌞 Viciously funny, vivid to the point of horror, and entirely profound."🌞 -Arkady Martine

"🌞 Magnificent. . . . A science fiction action juggernaut."🌞 -Tamsyn Muir
🌞 A most anticipated book of 2024 according to Goodreads, LitHub, and The New Scientist
"Anna, I came to Earth tracking a very old story, a story that goes back to the dawn of time. It's very unlikely that you'll die right now. It wouldn't be narratively complete."
Anna Sinjari-refugee, survivor of genocide, disaffected office worker-has a close encounter that reveals universe-threatening stakes. Enter Ssrin, a many-headed serpent alien who is on the run from her own past. Ssrin and Anna are inexorably, dangerously drawn to each other, and their contact reveals universe-threatening stakes.
While humanity...