This World Is Not Yours

by Kemi Ashing-Giwa Narrated by Catherine Ho

Overview

This World Is Not Yours by USA Today bestseller Kemi Ashing-Giwa is the perfect blend of S. A. Barnes's 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 fiancée, 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 Belaforme's 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.



There's more than one way to be eaten alive.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

A herculean work of ambition, This World Is Not Yours is not only a fantastic story of extraterrestrial threats and survival in alien worlds, but also a startlingly accurate examination of interpersonal relationships”—Cassandra Khaw, author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth and The Salt Grows Heavy

“A rich, sharp shock of a novella, churning with corrupted love and corrupted nature. This World Is Not Yours may occur galaxies away, but the dread it evokes is anything but alien. Because we all suspect our own version of the Gray is out there, don't we? And we're all preparing for its embrace.”—Nat Cassidy, author of Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“Intricate world building with characters that feel like people you know in real life. I loved this take on cli-fi and the unexpected way in which humans are, as always, their own worst enemy.”—SA Barnes, author of Dead Silence

“A thrilling and intense mixture of love triangle and scientific hubris.”—Stina Leicht, author of Persephone Station and Loki's Ring

“Tense and immersive, this is a nail-biter. ”—Publishers Weekly

“The entire novel is a taut, twisted countdown to destruction. . . .will appeal to readers who like sci-fi horror, such as Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes and the creepiest parts of Cassandra Khaw’s eldritch worldbuilding.”—Library Journal

Library Journal

06/01/2024

Amara is seeking a fresh start after escaping her suffocating family of origin. She moves to the colony of New Belaforme, where her wife Vinh has landed a position as head of security; there, their friend Jesse researches the biology of the trio's new home. But the planet has a secret weapon—whenever the ecology goes out of balance, the planet stages a mass die-off to right things. When a rival colony attacks New Belaforme, the scales of that balance are tipped, as is the precarious balance in the relationship between Amara, Vinh, and Jesse. The planet will take care of its human pests the way it always does, but it might have found a kindred poisonous spirit in these particular humans—if they're willing to watch the rest of their species burn. The entire novel is a taut, twisted countdown to destruction. VERDICT Readers will find themselves thrilled and chilled by this planet-based monster tale from Ashing-Giwa (The Splinter in the Sky) that will appeal to readers who like sci-fi horror, such as Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes and the creepiest parts of Cassandra Khaw's eldritch worldbuilding.—Marlene Harris

Product Details

BN ID:	2940192440773
Publisher:	HighBridge Company
Publication date:	09/10/2024
Edition description:	Unabridged