In her breathtaking debut—part space odyssey part sapphic rom-com—Emily Hamilton weaves a
suspenseful charming and irresistibly joyous tale of fierce friendship improbable love and
wonder as vast as the universe itself. So here’s the thing: Cleo and her friends really truly
didn’t mean to steal this spaceship. They just wanted to know why twenty years ago the entire
Providence crew vanished without a trace. But then the stupid dark matter engine started all on
its own and now these four twenty-somethings are en route to Proxima Centauri unable to turn
around and being harangued by a snarky hologram that has the face and attitude of the ship’s
missing captain Billie. Cleo has dreamt of being an astronaut all her life and Earth is kind
of a lost cause at this point so this should be one of those blessings in disguise that people
talk about. But as the ship gets deeper into space the laws of physics start twisting old
mysteries come crawling back to life and Cleo’s initially combative relationship with Billie
turns into something deeper and more desperate than either woman was prepared for. Lying
somewhere in the subspace between science fantasy and sapphic rom-com The Stars Too Fondly is
a soaring near-future adventure about dark matter and alternate dimensions leaving home and
finding family and the galaxy-saving power of letting yourself love and be loved.
