Kemi Ashing-Giwa

    This World Is Not Yours

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    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.

    Tor Nightfire/Macmillan Publishers (September 2024)

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    • Library Journal

    The entire novel is a taut, twisted countdown to destruction…Verdict: Readers will find themselves thrilled and chilled by this planet-based monster tale from Ashing-Giwa (The Splinter in the Sky) that will appeal to readers who like sci-fi horror, such as Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes and the creepiest parts of Cassandra Khaw’s eldritch worldbuilding.

    • Publishers Weekly

    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 novel’s haunting ending is likely to stick with readers for a long time. Tense and immersive, this is a nail-biter. 

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