The Folded Sky is out in the world!

I am happy to announce that my latest White Space novel, The Folded Sky, is available for purchase now most places books are sold!

UK cover for THE FOLDED SKY

UK cover for THE FOLDED SKY

"Elizabeth Bear’s White Space series is the sociopolitical science fiction I’ve always wanted: profoundly interested in how people negotiate ethics and interdependence through a frame of future emotional and governmental technologies. Brilliant, humane, and compelling."

— Hugo-award-winning novelist Arkady Martine

"...showcases her smart and introspective command of space opera. Well-developed characters highlight not only big ideas of artificial intelligence, xenophobia, and data preservation but family dynamics and scientific rivalries."

—Library Journal starred review

Featuring:

• STEM lesbians in space

• holy shit that's a big intelligent ancient alien artifact and you need to preserve its existence

• nobody can do it alone and yet we all have to do it alone

• your ex is a tool and she just got hired for the same dream job you did

• your boss is a sardonic cephalopod with fantastic dress sense

• take your angry teenage daughter to work day (at the edge of the universe)

• and keep her from getting pressganged by pirates

• younger kid is a cinnamon roll

• flying dinosaurs

• space cats

• you built this space station out of WHAT?

• bitchy, misanthropic space ship who probably has a point

• secrets of deep time

• your wife is amazing on so many levels and also does not put up with your bullshit

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Dr. Sunya Song embarks on an interstellar journey across the Milky Way to connect with the artificial intelligence known as Baomind, a system-sized entity that holds the key to humanity’s survival amidst cosmic challenges and unforeseen threats in Hugo Award–winning author Elizabeth Bear’s next epic science fiction novel.

Information doesn’t want to be free. Information wants to vanish without a trace.

Sunya Song’s job is to stop that from happening.

She’s an archinformist: a specialist historian whose job usually involves sitting at a console at her university job near the Galactic Core, sorting ancient documents and restoring corrupted files.

But now, the research opportunity of a lifetime has sent her—along with her teenage children and alien wife—halfway across the galaxy to preserve the data and aid in the retrieval of the archaeological find of the century: an ancient alien artificial intelligence called Baomind. As vast as a stellar system, the Baomind orbits a dying red giant, and the star’s time has nearly ended.

The isolated research station and its small fleet of ships come under attack by fanatic Freeport pirates who believe that artificial intelligence is an abomination that must be destroyed, putting the lives of Sunya and her family at risk.

Tens of thousands of lightyears from home, isolated from all help, Sunya is the only one who can save them all.