‘Don’t end up being alarmed – that dizzy enjoyable sensation you’re experiencing is merely your brain slowly exploding from all of the wild magnificent worldbuilding in Nicky Drayden’s Escaping Exodus. I enjoyed these characters which story, and so will you.’

– Sam J. Miller, Nebula-Award-winning writer of The Art of Starving and Blackfish Town

The Compton Crook award-winning writer of The Victim of Gods and Temper returns having a stunning stand-alone novel, set in deep space, in which the fate of about Escaping Exodus: A Book humanity rests in the slender shoulders of an idealistic and untested young woman-a mixture of science fiction, dark humor, and magical realism that will appeal to fans of Charlie Jane Anders, Jeff VanderMeer, and Nnedi Okorafor.

Globe is a distant storage. Habitable extrasolar planets are still out of reach. For years, humanity continues to be clinging to survival by establishing colonies within tremendous vacuum-breathing space beasts and mining their resources to the idea of depletion.

Allergy, dreamy, and unconventional, Seske Kaleigh ought to be finding your way through her future function as clan leader, but her people have just culled their newest beast, and she’s eager to find the reason for the violent tremors plaguing their new home. Defying social barriers, Seske teams up with her best friend, a beast employee, and ventures into restricted areas for answers to end the mounting dread and rumors. Instead, they discover grim truths about the price of lifestyle in the void.

Then, Seske is normally unexpectedly thrust in to the role of clan matriarch, responsible for thousands of lives in a harsh universe where a single mistake can be fatal. Her state to the throne is challenged by a rival driven to overthrow her and take control-her smart, cunning, and self-confident sister.

Seske may not be a born leader like her sister, yet her unorthodox view and incorruptible idealism could be what the clan needs to conserve themselves and their world.