Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel!
A 2023 New York Times Notable Book
Rakesfall is a groundbreaking, standalone science fiction epic about two souls bound together from here until the ends of time, from the author of The Saint of Bright Doors.
Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell. There are wrongs that echo through the ages, friendships that outpace the claws of death, loves that leave their mark on civilization, and promises that nothing can break. This is one such story. Annelid and Leveret met as children in the middle of the Sri Lankan civil war. They found each other in a torn-up nation, peering through propaganda to grasp a deeper truth. And in a demon-haunted wood, another act of violence linked them and propelled their souls on a journey throughout the ages. No world can hold them, no life can bind them, and they'll never leave each other behind. Tracing two souls through endless lifetimes, Rakesfall is a virtuosic exploration of what stories can be. As Annelid and Leveret reincarnate ever deeper into the future, they will chase the edge of human possibility in a dark science fiction epic unlike anything you've read before.Rakesfall is a groundbreaking, standalone science fiction epic about two souls bound together from here until the ends of time, from the author of The Saint of Bright Doors.
Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell. There are wrongs that echo through the ages, friendships that outpace the claws of death, loves that leave their mark on civilization, and promises that nothing can break. This is one such story. Annelid and Leveret met as children in the middle of the Sri Lankan civil war. They found each other in a torn-up nation, peering through propaganda to grasp a deeper truth. And in a demon-haunted wood, another act of violence linked them and propelled their souls on a journey throughout the ages. No world can hold them, no life can bind them, and they'll never leave each other behind. Tracing two souls through endless lifetimes, Rakesfall is a virtuosic exploration of what stories can be. As Annelid and Leveret reincarnate ever deeper into the future, they will chase the edge of human possibility in a dark science fiction epic unlike anything you've read before.Death is an integral part of life, waiting on the other side for each of us.
Writers, however, have no need to wait. They can cross the boundary as easily as stepping from one room to another.
These eighteen stories from 2023 will take you into that room and beyond. From death's chamber to the hood of a Camaro, from quiet woods to shrieking space. Death awaits. Let us go and meet it.
Includes stories by Isabel J. Kim, Tehnuka, Michael Roch, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Will McMahon, Bendi Barrett, Diana Dima, Eden Royce, B. Pladek, Avra Margariti, EC Dorgan, Gabrielle Emem Harry, Samir Sirk Morató, M. L. Krishnan, Jill Tew, Osahon Ize-Iyamu, Sydney Paige Guerrero, and J.A.W. McCarthy