NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED AND KIRKUS REVIEWS • With deeply moving human being drama, nail-biting suspense-and bold speculation informed by a level in physics-C. A. Higgins spins a riveting science fiction debut guaranteed to catapult visitors beyond their anticipations.

Serving aboard the Ananke, an experimental military spacecraft launched by the ruthless organization that rules Globe and its solar system, pc scientist Althea has established a rigorous about Lightless emotional bond-not with some of her crewmates, but using the ship’s electronic systems, which speak deeper to her analytical brain than human emotions do. However when a set of fugitive terrorists access the Ananke, Althea must pull upon her core for the power to defend her beloved ship.

While one of the saboteurs continues to be at large somewhere on board, his captured partner-the enigmatic Ivan-may prove to be more dangerous. The perversely exciting criminal whose silver tongue is his most reliable weapon has lengthy evaded the government bodies’ most relentless surveillance-and kept the truth about his strategies and motives well concealed.

As the ship’s systems begin to malfunction as well as the claustrophobic atmosphere can be progressively poisoned by distrust and suspicion, it falls to Althea to penetrate the prisoner’s levels of intrigue and deception before all is normally lost. However when the true nature of Ivan’s mission can be exposed, it will change Althea forever-if it doesn’t destroy her first.

Compliment for Lightless

“Gripping . sci-fi flavored with a hint of thriller.”-New York Daily Current information

“[A] measured, wonderful science-fiction debut [that is] more emotional thriller . . . included, disciplined, tense . . . The story is compulsive. . . . Lightless is the first of a well planned series, and you can’t help getting excited about learning what’s following.”-The New York Times

“Lightless is filled with suspense and fun as hell to read.”-BuzzFeed

“Absolutely brilliant . . . That is research fiction as it is meant to be achieved: scientific principles wedded to and built upon individual ideals.”-Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling writer of the Oct Daye series

“The stakes in this story are high-life and death, rebellion and betrayal-and debut novelist Higgins continually ratchets up the strain. . . . A suspenseful, emotional tale that asks a lot of big questions about identity and freedom, that is a debut never to be missed.”-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“A tight, suspenseful go through.”-Tech Times

“Lightless is an exercise in light a very gradual fuse and building the strain to an unbearable pitch while making us figure just how apocalyptic the best explosion will be. . . . It really is a high-wire work, a wonderment, and a fine accomplishment from a name we’ll be seeing again.”-Sci Fi