Show Notes
Attention! This is your mess leader! Do you enjoy dystopian queer chaotic journeys through time? What about all our hot takes about the value of AI? Or perhaps you're a little alien trying to figure out your purpose. Well if any of those apply, then we've got a new episode for you and it's a delight! We are diving into science fiction with our discussion of Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh.
As a reminder, this season all our episodes contain Spoilers!! So if you haven't read it, and want to - turn back! Else, listen in and we will give you enough of a synopsis to get the picture. Have your own thoughts? Let us know (we dare you to)! Submit a footnote!
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Some Desperate Glory book blurb: All her life 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 all-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. But when Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to the 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, she escapes from everything she’s ever known into a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could have imagined.
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 award-winning author Emily Tesh’s highly anticipated debut novel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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