'This book is astoundingly good. An explosive and extraordinary story that I couldn't stop
reading and will never forget' Everina Maxwell author of Winter's Orbit All her life Kyr has
trained for the day she can avenge the destruction of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea Station
alongside the last scraps of humanity she is one of the best warriors of her generation the
sword of a dead planet. Then Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to
the nursery to bear sons and 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 Kyr must
escape from everything she's ever known. If she succeeds she will find a universe far more
complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could ever have imagined Some
Desperate Glory the highly anticipated debut novel from Astounding Award and World Fantasy
Award-Winner Emily Tesh a thrillingly told space opera about the wreckage of war the family
you find and the path you must forge when every choice is stripped from you. 'A profoundly
humane and brilliantly constructed space opera that will have you cheering swearing laughing
and ugly-crying. It's perfect' Alix E. Harrow New York Times-bestselling author of The Once
and Future Witches 'Masterful audacious storytelling. Relentless unsentimental a completely
wild ride' Tamsyn Muir New York Times-bestselling author of The Locked Tomb series
