Save one world. Doom her own.
From the acclaimed author of The Deep Sky comes a thrilling anti-colonial space heist to save an alien civilization.
Maya Hoshimoto was once the best art thief in the galaxy. For ten years, she returned stolen artifacts to alien civilizations—until a disastrous job forced her into hiding. Now she just wants to enjoy a quiet life as a graduate student of anthropology, but she’s haunted by persistent and disturbing visions of the future.
Then an old friend comes to her with a job she can’t refuse: find a powerful object that could save an alien species from extinction. Except no one has seen it in living memory, and they aren’t the only ones hunting for it.
Maya sets out on a breakneck quest through a universe teeming with strange life and ancient ruins. But the farther she goes, the more her visions cast a dark shadow over her team of friends new and old. Someone will betray her along the way. Worse yet, in choosing to save one species, she may condemn humanity and Earth itself.
Save one world. Doom her own.
From the acclaimed author of The Deep Sky comes a thrilling anti-colonial space heist to save an alien civilization.
Maya Hoshimoto was once the best art thief in the galaxy. For ten years, she returned stolen artifacts to alien civilizations—until a disastrous job forced her into hiding. Now she just wants to enjoy a quiet life as a graduate student of anthropology, but she’s haunted by persistent and disturbing visions of the future.
Then an old friend comes to her with a job she can’t refuse: find a powerful object that could save an alien species from extinction. Except no one has seen it in living memory, and they aren’t the only ones hunting for it.
Maya sets out on a breakneck quest through a universe teeming with strange life and ancient ruins. But the farther she goes, the more her visions cast a dark shadow over her team of friends new and old. Someone will betray her along the way. Worse yet, in choosing to save one species, she may condemn humanity and Earth itself.
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Speculative fiction spanning deep-space murder mysteries and ocean-crossing ecological quests offers fresh perspectives on identity, environmental collapse, and intercultural existence. Yume Kitasei gained widespread attention with her debut novel The Deep Sky, a post-climate-apocalypse murder mystery set aboard a generation ship bound for a distant planet.
Born on October 14, 1987, in New York City, Kitasei grew up moving between New York and Tokyo. As a Japanese-American writer, she spent her upbringing navigating a space between two distinct cultures, an experience that directly informs the thematic atmosphere of her stories. She graduated from Stuyvesant High School and Princeton University. Prior to releasing her full-length speculative novels, Kitasei published short fiction in outlets including New England Review, Catapult, SmokeLong Quarterly, Baltimore Review, Room Magazine, and The Forge Literary Magazine. Her first work of genre interest, 'Super,' was published in 2019. Kitasei lives in Brooklyn with her two cats, Boondoggle and Filibuster.
Kitasei's speculative narratives combine hard-science fiction premises with intimate character dynamics and sociopolitical commentary. Her writing frequently explores anticolonial themes, environmental salvation, and the friction of living across multiple cultural worlds. In her stories, characters confront ecological crises and complex ethical dilemmas while searching for belonging and ancestral understanding. Rather than relying on standard space-opera tropes, her work emphasizes humanity's emotional and cultural tethers, using speculative settings—from starships to ocean voyages—to examine how survival requires both technological innovation and cultural accountability.
2 books in catalog
Speculative fiction spanning deep-space murder mysteries and ocean-crossing ecological quests offers fresh perspectives on identity, environmental collapse, and intercultural existence. Yume Kitasei gained widespread attention with her debut novel The Deep Sky, a post-climate-apocalypse murder mystery set aboard a generation ship bound for a distant planet.
Born on October 14, 1987, in New York City, Kitasei grew up moving between New York and Tokyo. As a Japanese-American writer, she spent her upbringing navigating a space between two distinct cultures, an experience that directly informs the thematic atmosphere of her stories. She graduated from Stuyvesant High School and Princeton University. Prior to releasing her full-length speculative novels, Kitasei published short fiction in outlets including New England Review, Catapult, SmokeLong Quarterly, Baltimore Review, Room Magazine, and The Forge Literary Magazine. Her first work of genre interest, 'Super,' was published in 2019. Kitasei lives in Brooklyn with her two cats, Boondoggle and Filibuster.
Kitasei's speculative narratives combine hard-science fiction premises with intimate character dynamics and sociopolitical commentary. Her writing frequently explores anticolonial themes, environmental salvation, and the friction of living across multiple cultural worlds. In her stories, characters confront ecological crises and complex ethical dilemmas while searching for belonging and ancestral understanding. Rather than relying on standard space-opera tropes, her work emphasizes humanity's emotional and cultural tethers, using speculative settings—from starships to ocean voyages—to examine how survival requires both technological innovation and cultural accountability.
