This World Is Not Yours [Paperback]

This World is Not YoursbyUSA Todaybestseller 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 fianc?e 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 Belaformes 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.

Theres more than one way to be eaten alive.

KEMI ASHING-GIWA enjoys learning about the real universe as much as she likes making ones up. She studied integrative biology and astrophysics at Harvard, and is now pursuing a PhD in the Earth and Planetary Sciences department at Stanford. She has published several short stories withTor.com(nowReactor),Anathema, The Sunday Morning Transport,Clarkesworld Magazine, and others. This World Is Not Yours is her first novella.

A herculean work of ambition,This World Is Not Yoursis not onlya fantastic story of extraterrestrial threatsand survival in alien worlds, but alsoa startlingly accurate examination of interpersonal relationshipsCassandra Khaw, author ofNothing But Blackened TeethandThe Salt Grows Heavy

A rich, sharp shock of a novella, churning with corrupted love and corrupted nature.This World Is Not Yoursmay occur galaxies away, but the dread it lS#