While Kaeda lives a decade and a half, Nia spends just a few months traveling between various resource-producing worlds like his, shipping goods for the powerful Umbai Company. Nia is the captain of a faster-than-light ship that travels through Pocket Space. We first see Nia Imani through the eyes of someone she is always leaving behind: Kaeda, a boy growing up on a backwater planet visited once every 15 years by offworlders who come to collect its harvests. A novel of vast scope that yet makes time for compassion, wonder, and poetry.In this gorgeous debut novel, love becomes a force that can shatter space and time. The Vanished Birds finds an intimate heartbeat of longing in a saga of galactic progress and its crushing fallout…. Publishers Weekly (starred review)Ī lyrical and moving narrative of space travel, found families, and lost loves set against an evocative space-opera background. This extraordinary science fiction epic, which delves deep into the perils of failing to learn from one’s mistakes, is perfect for fans of big ideas and intimate reflections. This is the most impressive debut of 2020. A new beginning.īut the past hungers for them, and when it catches up, it threatens to tear this makeshift family apart. In this captivating debut of connection across space and time, these outsiders will find in each other the things they lack: a place of love and belonging. A millennia-old woman, haunted by lifetimes of mistakes. A mute child, burdened with unimaginable power. I expected many things from this trip.I did not expect a family.Ī ship captain, unfettered from time. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TORDOTCOM AND KIRKUS REVIEWSĪ mysterious child lands in the care of a solitary woman, changing both of their lives forever.A “highly imaginative and utterly exhilarating” (Thrillist) debut that is “the best of what science fiction can be: a thought-provoking, heartrending story about the choices that define our lives” (Kirkus Reviews, Best Debut Fiction and Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year).
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