Every Friday, we here @ Del Rey Spectra will place a 50 page excerpt of a selected title on Suvudu. Whether it is science fiction, epic fantasy, alternate history, horror, urban fantasy, paranormal, the possibilities are endless.
This week’s excerpt features the fresh new voice of Kirsten Imani Kasai and her debut novel Ice Song. Here’s what Kirsten’s editor Tricia Pasternak had to say about Kirsten and the book:
“Here at Del Rey, we are all fans at heart, and like many fans, one of the things we love about fantasy is the “shock of the new”–encountering new worlds and new ideas unlike any we have ever experienced before.
So when we first read Kirsten Imani Kasai’s Ice Song, it electrified us with its originality. Though Kasai’s been frequently compared with Ursula K. Le Guin, what she really shares with her illustrious predecessor is her utter singularity. No one writes quite like Kirsten Imani Kasai.
Annalee Newitz of io9 said of Ice Song “I’m loving it—it’s like furry sexy biopunk arctic witchery,” but her ecstatic description is just the beginning. The world of Ice Song reinvents everything we know about gender, biology, social constructs, and identity. But it has more than daring ideas and provocative themes: Ice Song is a cabinet of wonders and marvels. From its gender-switching heroine, the unforgettable Sorykah/Soryk, to the surreal ‘somatics,’ half-human, half-animal mutants, to a beautiful and violent ice world, Ice Song brings the beauty of the uncanny, and the joy of intellectual daring, back to speculative fiction.”
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Please enjoy this extensive excerpt of Ice Song, available now in paperback and eBook. And be sure to check out Kirsten’s next book, Tattoo, available in paperback and eBook on 7/26.
