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Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh
Narrated by: Sena Bryer
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Long-listed, Barnes and Noble Best New Books of the Year 2023

Hugo Award Nominee

Long-listed, Goodreads Choice Awards, 2023

Long-listed, Library Journal Best Books of the Year, 2023

"Sena Bryer delivers a cinematic performance of Tesh's exhilarating space opera. Bryer's full-bodied characterizations—gruff Mags, Kyr's quietly rage-filled squadmates, and a sweetly naïve but powerful alien named Yiso—are so skilled that listeners may wonder if this is a full-cast production. Complete with time slips, a reality-warping artificial intelligence, and epic world-building, this is a gripping, can't-miss listen."—AudioFile

A thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is Astounding Award Winner and Crawford Award Finalist Emily Tesh’s highly anticipated debut novel.

"Masterful, audacious storytelling. Relentless, unsentimental, a completely wild ride."—Tamsyn Muir

With three starred reviews!

While we live, the enemy shall fear us.

Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity.

They are what’s left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. When Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to Nursery to bear sons until she dies trying, 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 escapes from everything she’s known into a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could have imagined.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com.

©2023 Emily Tesh (P)2023 Macmillan Audio
Adventure Fiction Literature & Fiction Science Fiction Space Opera Space Revenge Suspenseful War
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Interview: A Radicalized Heroine Finds Redemption in "Some Desperate Glory"

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Editorial Review

Another smash hit
I first fell in love with Emily Tesh’s writing in an MFA class on sci-fi & fantasy novellas. We were assigned her novella Silver in the Wood, and I was spellbound by not only the lovely prose but her achingly beautiful depiction of queer love and longing. To hear she is publishing her first full-length novel—a queer space opera no less—practically made me swoon. Some Desperate Glory delivers a rich vision of post-Earth humanity and a misguided hero whose redemption you can’t help but root for. I can’t wait to hear this performance from Sena Bryer—who is not a debut narrator, but a newer voice talent I hope we hear much, much more from in the future. —Sam D., Audible Editor