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This World Is Not Yours

by Kemi Ashing-Giwa
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This World is Not Yours by USA Today bestseller Kemi Ashing-Giwa is the perfect blend of S.A. Barnes' space horror and Cassandra Khaw's beautiful but macabre worlds. An action-packed, inventive novella about a toxic polycule consumed by jealousy and their attempts to survive on a hostile planet.
After fleeing her controlling and murderous family with her fiancée Vinh, Amara embarks on a colonization project, New Belaforme, along with her childhood friend, Jesse.
The planet, beautiful and lethal, produces the Gray, a "self-cleaning" mechanism that New Belaforme's scientists are certain only attacks invasive organisms, consuming them. Humans have been careful to do nothing to call attention to themselves until a rival colony wakes the Gray.
As Amara, Vinh, and Jesse work to carve out a new life together, each is haunted by past betrayals that surface, expounded by the need to survive the rival colony and the planet itself.
There's more than one way to be eaten alive.
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    September 10, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9781250901873

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      • ISBN: 9781250901873
      • File size: 2605 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      June 1, 2024

      Ashing-Giwa (The Splinter in the Sky) writes a queer sci-fi/horror novella. After fleeing her dangerous family, Amara and her fianc�e, Vinh, join their friend Jesse for a colonization project on a beautiful but lethal planet where they'll have to try to survive its "self-cleaning" mechanism that attacks invasive organisms. With a 75K-copy first printing. Prepub Alert.

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      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 15, 2024
      This claustrophobic queer sci-fi horror hybrid from Ashing-Giwa (The Splinter in the Sky) focuses on the toxic love triangle between three characters—Amara, Vinh, and Jesse—as they come to terms with a terrible entity that haunts the planet they’ve been tasked with colonizing. After a rival colony destroys their resources, the company sponsoring their expedition takes a more active role, forcing them to restructure their relationship to at least appear traditional and heterosexual. Meanwhile, a mysterious substance called the Gray advances upon their colony. To survive, the strained triad must figure out how to stop this threat while making peace with the space each of them holds in the others’ lives. Ashing-Giwa does an excellent job of bringing to life the labyrinthine intricacies of human relationships that can drive people to horrific extremes, and the worldbuilding provides a rich, fascinating background against which these dynamics play out. The ambitious plot doesn’t have quite enough room to breathe, but the novel’s haunting ending is likely to stick with readers for a long time. Tense and immersive, this is a nail-biter.

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