A queer, Caribbean, anti-colonial sci-fi novella in which a betrayed captain seeks revenge on the interplanetary empire that subjugated her people for generations
Virika Sameroo lives in colonized space under the Æcerbot Empire, much like her ancestors before her in the British West Indies. After years of working hard to rise through the ranks of the empire’s merchant marine, she’s finally become first lieutenant on an interstellar cargo vessel.
When her captain dies under suspicious circumstances, Virika is arrested for murder and charged with treason despite her lifelong loyalty to the empire. Her conviction and subsequent imprisonment set her on a path of revenge, determined to take down the evil empire that wronged her, all while the fate of her people hangs in the balance.
Bram Stoker Award winner, Shirley Jackson Award finalist, and USA Today bestselling author of NOTHING BUT BLACKENED TEETH Cassandra Khaw’s HELLEBORE, a deeply dark academia novel set at a brutal institute for the dangerously powerful, where a group of graduating students must survive one last diabolical test, and three more standalone books, to Kristin Temple at Nightfire, with Ellen Datlow editing two novellas, for publication in summer 2025, by Michael Curry (world English).
Audio rights to Christopher Rowe’s THE NAVIGATING FOX, a fantastical fable of “knowledgeable creatures,” to Kim Budnick at Tantor Media, by Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.
Chinese (simplified) rights to New York Times bestselling author Martha Wells’ WITCH KING, to Science Fiction World, by Gray Tan at Grayhawk Agency in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.
