Synopses & Reviews
Michael Crichton meets Marvel's Venom in award-winning author Seth Dickinson's science fiction debut
" Viciously funny, vivid to the point of horror, and entirely profound." Arkady Martine
" Magnificent….A science fiction action juggernaut." Tamsyn Muir
A most anticipated book of 2024 according to Goodreads, LitHub, and The New Scientist
" Anna, I came to Earth tracking a very old story, a story that goes back to the dawn of time. It's very unlikely that you'll die right now. It wouldn't be narratively complete."
Anna Sinjari — refugee, survivor of genocide, disaffected office worker — has a close encounter that reveals universe-threatening stakes. Enter Ssrin, a many-headed serpent alien who is on the run from her own past. Ssrin and Anna are inexorably, dangerously drawn to each other, and their contact reveals universe-threatening stakes.
While humanity reels from disaster, Anna must join a small team of civilians, soldiers, and scientists to investigate a mysterious broadcast and unknowable horror. If they can manage to face their own demons, they just might save the world.
Review
"Seth! Jesus f***ing christ, Seth, you can't fucking keep doing this to me, I have a kid who's going to get up at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning no matter how late I stayed up reading, again, it's been days, I can see time." Max Gladstone, co-author of the New York Times Bestselling This is How You Lose the Time War
Review
"Dickinson brings the same richness of characterization that made his Baru Cormorant series (The Traitor Baru Cormorant, 2015) so compelling, but this one reads like a Michael Crichton thriller on psychedelics — in a good way." Booklist (Starred Review)
Review
"Adroit…Dickinson skillfully puts the cosmic scale of the Exordian rebellion into manageably personal terms. With cool alien technology, admirably hopeful heroes, and SFF pop culture references littered throughout, this will have readers hooked." Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Seth Dickinson is the author of the Baru Cormorant novels and many short stories, as well as much of the lore and backstory of Bungie Studios' Destiny. Exordia is Seth's first science fiction novel.