' The Vanished Birds is a well-crafted, superior science fiction debut. An impressively ambitious debut novel.' -AV Club

' The Vanished Birds is at its best when it's most intimate, spinning a story filled with romance, much of it queer, along with platonic relationships that demonstrate the power of found families. You're not going to want to miss this one, I promise.' 'If you enjoy science fiction with heart, if you love stories about stories, about people and the future and the things we do to keep making a future for each other, then read The Vanished Birds.

'Simon Jimenez's touching, bold, surprising, gorgeous debut novel.is not only the best debut novel I've read in ages, but simply one of the best SF novels in recent memory.' - Locus A novel of vast scope that yet makes time for compassion, wonder, and poetry.' -Indra Das, author of The Devourers ' The Vanished Birds finds an intimate heartbeat of longing in a saga of galactic progress and its crushing fallout. 'A lyrical and moving narrative of space travel, found families, and lost loves set against an evocative space-opera background.' -Booklist (starred review) '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.' -Publishers Weekly (starred review) 'This is the most impressive debut of 2020.' -Locus 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 did not expect a family.Ī ship captain, unfettered from time. Description 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).įINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AWARD - 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.

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