In The Deep Sky, Kitasei puts us under the microscope not in judgment but with a fair and caring eye she looks for the best in us.' -C. The space geek in me loves the way the voyage feels like a completely plausible extension of our current billionaire-fueled space race.' -Mary Robinette Kowal, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards 'There are so many things to love about Yume Kitasei's debut, but I especially adored how real every moment felt: the politics of boarding school and our future world the lapsed friendships and estranged parents the guilt of surviving, of being chosen. It is both an intimate character portrait and a thriller. ' Cerebral SF, tackling both humanity wide problems and the smaller but ever-present conflicts closer to home.' - Kirkus Reviews (starred) ' The Deep Sky is a beautiful tightly-wound mystery. ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Goodreads, BookRiot, SheReads, Fantasy Book Cafe, Debutiful, Novel Suspects, Portalist, International Business Times UK, FanFi Addict, Overdrive With the crew turning on each other, Asuka is determined to find the culprit before they all lose faith in the mission-or worse, the bomber strikes again.

But estranged from her mother back home, The Phoenix is all she has left. She was the last picked for the mission, she struggled during training back on Earth, and she was chosen to represent Japan, a country she only partly knows as a half-Japanese girl raised in America. Asuka already felt like an impostor before the explosion. Asuka, the only surviving witness, is an immediate suspect. But halfway to a distant but livable planet, a lethal bomb kills three of the crew and knocks The Phoenix off course.

A single ship carries humanity's last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation of children in deep space. It is the eve of Earth's environmental collapse.

Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew. About the Book An enthralling sci-fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew

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