This World Is Not Yours
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- USD 12.99
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- USD 12.99
Descripción editorial
This World is Not Yours by USA Today bestseller Kemi Ashing-Giwa is the perfect blend of S.A. Barnes' space horror and Cassandra Khaw's beautiful but macabre worlds. An action-packed, inventive novella about a toxic polycule consumed by jealousy and their attempts to survive on a hostile planet.
After fleeing her controlling and murderous family with her fiancée Vinh, Amara embarks on a colonization project, New Belaforme, along with her childhood friend, Jesse.
The planet, beautiful and lethal, produces the Gray, a “self-cleaning” mechanism that New Belaforme’s scientists are certain only attacks invasive organisms, consuming them. Humans have been careful to do nothing to call attention to themselves until a rival colony wakes the Gray.
As Amara, Vinh, and Jesse work to carve out a new life together, each is haunted by past betrayals that surface, expounded by the need to survive the rival colony and the planet itself.
There’s more than one way to be eaten alive.
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This claustrophobic queer sci-fi horror hybrid from Ashing-Giwa (The Splinter in the Sky) focuses on the toxic love triangle between three characters—Amara, Vinh, and Jesse—as they come to terms with a terrible entity that haunts the planet they've been tasked with colonizing. After a rival colony destroys their resources, the company sponsoring their expedition takes a more active role, forcing them to restructure their relationship to at least appear traditional and heterosexual. Meanwhile, a mysterious substance called the Gray advances upon their colony. To survive, the strained triad must figure out how to stop this threat while making peace with the space each of them holds in the others' lives. Ashing-Giwa does an excellent job of bringing to life the labyrinthine intricacies of human relationships that can drive people to horrific extremes, and the worldbuilding provides a rich, fascinating background against which these dynamics play out. The ambitious plot doesn't have quite enough room to breathe, but the novel's haunting ending is likely to stick with readers for a long time. Tense and immersive, this is a nail-biter.
