In the follow-up to Lightless and Supernova, C. A. Higgins fuses science fiction, suspense, and theatre to tell the storyplot of a most improbable heroine: Ananke, once a armed service spacecraft, now a sentient artificial cleverness. Ananke may have the powers of the god, but she is consumed by a very human longing: to know her creators.

Ananke may possess the powers of the god, but she actually is consumed by an extremely human longing: to learn her creators. Now Ananke is on a quest to find companionship, understanding, about Radiate as well as love. She is followed by Althea, the engineer who made her, and whom she sees as her mom. And she is in search of her “dad,” Matthew, the programmer whose code gave her the spark of life.

But Matthew is usually on a unusual pursuit of his own, traveling the galaxy alongside Ivan, with whom he stocks a deeply painful background. Ananke and her parents are racing toward an unavoidable collision, with implications as violent as the birth of the solar system itself—so that as devastating as the discovery of love.

Compliment for Radiate

“Radiate will take you to the edges of space you’ve never even dreamed of going and beyond.”—Bustle

“Gripping . This sci-fi world [is normally] utterly believable, while metaphor and allegory enrich the character types.”—NY Daily News

“A compelling emotional tale about two people trying to save each other from a tragedy of their personal making.”—Kirkus Testimonials

The Lightless Trilogy is “a perfect sci-fi entry way that matches a rich, character-driven story with fundamental questions about who we are and just why we’re here.”—LA Times