The Jewel and the Comet
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- Pre-Order
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- Expected 18 Aug 2026
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- $19.99
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- Pre-Order
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
A quirky new space opera featuring charming characters and sarcastic spaceships. Perfect for fans of Seven Devils.
A witty and thrilling space opera with a touch of romance from the author of The Knife and the Serpent.
Glenn is a normal graduate student (aside from his kinks and genderfluidity), living a normal life with his normal girlfriend, Vivy (a spy for an interdimensional agency with her own kinks).
When Vivy is called away on a scouting trip to stop a rogue comet, Glenn finds himself pulled from his normal life into an adventure of his own, navigating the multiverse with only a snarky starship as his guide.
Glenn and Vivy are far apart, facing dangerous foes; Glenn battling an evil cult leader with a limitless supply of power, and Vivy trying to recover a stolen jewel with a serious attitude, a jewel that can devastate entire universes. Kinks there may be, but is there a link?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The riotous second installment of Hugo Award winner Pratt's Nigh-Space series (following The Knife and the Serpent) plays out as a joyfully chaotic multiverse-traveling space opera. Its gender-fluid protagonist, who goes by Glenn or Gwen depending on the day, has recently joined an organization of "interdimensional do-gooders" called the Interventionists, after learning that his girlfriend/domme, Vivy, comes from an alternate dimension and is an operative of the Interventionists herself. While on a training mission with a sentient AI spaceship named Eddie, Gwen gets swept into a mission far beyond her experience level involving a jewel that has entered the habitable reaches of the multiverse from the "outer realms," a space beyond all known universes where "the laws of physics are different." This alien object has the potential to wreak havoc on the multiverse. In the midst of the action and wryly humorous narration, Pratt does an excellent job working in space-travel details in a way that feels scientific without being overwhelming to a casual reader. With laugh-out-loud moments and characters worth rooting for, this hits just the right balance between earnest and kooky.
