Apocalypse Nyx
by Kameron Hurley
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Pub Date Jul 27 2018 | Archive Date Oct 09 2018
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Description
Ex-government assassin turned bounty-hunter, Nyx, is good at solving other people’s problems. Her favorite problem-solving solution is punching people in the face. Then maybe chopping off some heads. Hey—it’s a living.
Her disreputable reputation has been well earned. To Nyx’s mind, it’s also justified. After all, she’s trying to navigate an apocalyptic world full of giant bugs, contaminated deserts, scheming magicians, and a centuries-long war that’s consuming her future. Managing her ragtag squad of misfits has required a lot of morally-gray choices.
Every new job is another day alive. Every new mission is another step toward changing a hellish future—but only if she can survive.
A Note From the Publisher2>
Kameron Hurley is the author of The Stars are Legion and the award-winning essay collection The Geek Feminist Revolution, as well as the God’s War Trilogy and the Worldbreaker Saga. Hurley has won the Hugo Award, Kitschy Award, BSFA Award, and Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer. She was also a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Nebula Award, and the Gemmell Morningstar Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Popular Science Magazine, Lightspeed Magazine, and many anthologies. Hurley has also written for The Atlantic, Entertainment Weekly, the Village Voice, Bitch Magazine, and Locus. She posts regularly at KameronHurley.com.
Advance Praise
Praise for Apocalypse Nyx
“If you’re new to Nyx, this
may be a good place to start, taking place before the current series of which
she’s the star. If you’re already a fan, this adds some wonderfully bloody,
emotionally sharp texture to an already intriguing world and characters—get on it.”
—Sci-Fi and Fantasy Reviews
“Apocalypse Nyx is grim,
unapologetic science fiction at its best . . . gripping.”
—New York Journal of Books
“This is a dystopia that revels in it in a big, joyous way
with cracking one-liners and tight squeezes to escape. Apocalypse Nyx
is definitely not for the squeamish, but if you like your heroines as kickass
as Dutch from the TV series Killjoys you’ll love Nyxnissa. Good, honest science
fiction fun with a feminist twist.
—Starburst
“Gritty with a
capital grit . . . In all—I love this world, I love these stories.”
—Fangs for the Fantasy
“Great for all you hard-drinking, hard punching, embittered
readers who like a lot of grit in their post-apocalyptic hard-SF Biopunk . . . Nyx
really shines darkly.”
—Bradley Horner,
author of Darkside Earther
“The five novellas that make up Apocalypse Nyx are
packed with more glare, grit, and snarl than a junkyard full of mutated
jackals, landing their punches with all the tooth-loosening, hardhat-launching,
lunchbox-swinging frankness of a noontime construction worker brawl. Hurley's
world of mercenaries, magicians, blood, and bug guts is dusty enough that you
can feel it grinding between your molars and insistent enough that it'll yank
you by the collar and not let go, a no-frills hang-the-hell-on
death-rattle-and-roll Keith Moon drum solo of staccato narrative bursts.”
—Bo Bolander, author of The Only Harmless Great Thing
“Nyx is back and just as good as ever. In this new
collection of five novellas, Kameron Hurley serves up courses of crunchy action
and intrigue, layered with tender character moments that bring real depth to
this intense, unique world.”
—JY Yang, author of The Black Tides of Heaven and
The Red Threads of Fortune
“Incorrigible and unapologetically heartless, Nyx is the
bounty hunter to call when the stakes are high, the payouts are iffy, and the
morality is optional.”
—Nicky Drayden, author of The Prey of Gods
“With Nyx, Hurley masterfully writes about a strong woman
who is also a very broken human being—something women are rarely allowed to
be.”
—Stina Leicht, author of And Blue Skies from Pain and Cold Iron
“There are no limits to the universe Ms. Hurley creates.”
—Virdea
“If your favourite action TV series were distilled in book
form, this would be it.
—British Fantasy
Society
“I devoured this book, and I’m pretty sure it ate a little
piece of my heart, too.”
—The Fantasy Inn
“Compelling and fast-paced, gruesome and titillating at
turns, presenting an approach to gender and sexuality that is appalling but
fascinating.”
— Tor.com
“Kameron Hurley’s Apocalypse Nyx (Tachyon) is a welcome
return to the adventures of the author’s iconic hard-fisted anti-heroine.”
— Seattle Review of
Books
“For all that God’s
War was nominated for every award under the sun, I enjoyed this more: Nyx’s
tempestuous life lends itself perfectly to discrete, action-packed episodes.”
— Interzone
“Fans show up for the fatalistic prose, acid-tongued banter
between hard-bitten mercenaries, over the top violence and female-centered
action storytelling—Apocalypse Nyx delivers
on all those fronts.”
—Thousand Year Plan
“Nyx is a brilliantly imagined character.”
—Strange Alliances
Praise for the Bel Dame Apocrypha
On God’s War
“Nyxnissa would quite clearly kick Conan's ass . . . Just what the genre ordered.”
—Strange Horizons
“Are you frustrated with Mary Sue heroines? Well, here comes God's War to rock your face off . . . If you like rough, battle-scarred women who know how to regulate, you're going to love Nyx . . . she makes Han Solo look like a boy scout.”
—io9
“God's War is one of the most thought-provoking debuts I've read so far this year.”
—Locus
“God's War is a violent tale set against the backdrop of a centuries-old holy war. But beyond all the blood and violence, it's a beautifully crafted work of art that keeps astonishing you when you least expect it.”
—Pat's Fantasy Hotlist
On Infidel
“Hurley’s world-building, vivid and blissfully free of infodumps and expository lumps, was one of the great strengths of God’s War, and it’s a pleasure to return to the fascinating and messed-up world she created—one especially enjoyable for its ethnically diverse cast and freewheeling remixes of traditional gender roles.”
—Tor.com
“Infidel is a fast-paced book with a lot of action and smart character moments, mixed with cynical battlefield philosophy. I highly recommend it.”
—Strange Horizons
On Rapture
“Kameron Hurley is ferociously imaginative—with an emphasis on ferocious. She writes novels that are smart, dark, visceral and wonderfully, hectically entertaining.”
—Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls
“Edge-of-the-seat action set within a strange and alien world that’s the mutant child of Frank Herbert and Roger Zelazny. At her best, Hurley’s work rivals that of Gene Wolfe, and it burns like a drug in the mind long after you’ve finished it.”
—David J. Williams, author of The Mirrored Heavens
“[Nyxnissa] is gloriously self-possessed, repellently amoral, and thoroughly original. She is a woman in a man's grimdark world.
—Strange Horizons
Praise for The Geek Feminist Revolution
“A call to arms for those who care about the future of science fiction and fantasy.”
—John Scalzi, author of Redshirts
“Kameron Hurley writes essays that piss people off, make them think, make them act. This is good stuff. Read it.”
—Kate Elliott, author of the Crown of Stars series
“Hurley’s essays are a beacon signaling to writers in the trenches that they’re not alone, and they’re not imagining how hard it is to push against the mainstream, or how the culture shoves back ten times harder.”
—K. Tempest Bradford
“Filled me with blistering hope and rage. Amazing collection.”
—Annalee Newitz, author of Autonomous
Marketing Plan
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781616962944 |
| PRICE | CA$23.95 (CAD) |
| PAGES | 288 |