A strange and wondrous re-imagining of noir that takes its cues from biopunk and SE Asian mythos to create something wholly different. "A wonderful queer noir fever dream." -Tamsyn Muir, internationally bestselling author of Gideon the Ninth "Fiercely queer. Quickly falling in with the pirate crew who has found her, she must race against time to stop a plague from being unleashed by the evil that has taken root in Hainak. Resurrected by an ancient power, she finds herself with the new ability to manipulate life force. When she stumbles across a dead body on her patrol, two fellow officers gruesomely murder her and dump her into the harbor. She's barely holding it together, haunted by memories of a lover who vanished and voices that float in and out of her head like radio signals. Yat has recently been demoted on the force due to "lifestyle choices" after being caught at a gay club. But, after a devastating war and a sweeping biotech revolution, all its inhabitants want is peace, no one more so than Yat Jyn-Hok a reformed-thief-turned-cop who patrols the streets at night.
alive: its buildings, its fashion, even its weapons. Gideon the Ninth meets Black Sun in this queer, Maori-inspired debut fantasy about a police officer who is murdered, brought back to life with a mysterious new power, and tasked with protecting her city from an insidious evil threatening to destroy it.
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