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Lesbian & Sapphic FictionQueer FantasyQueer Science Fiction

Some Desperate Glory

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  • 2022 first published
  • 464 pages
  • ★ 4.0 (6 ratings)
  • 10 editions
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Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory (2022) is a sapphic fiction and queer fantasy novel. Key subjects include Queer, LGBT, Lesbian and Adult.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, and 22 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 10 editions across 3 languages.

At about 464 pages, most readers finish it in 8–9 hours.

About Some Desperate Glory

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the all-powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the Majoda their victory over humanity. They are what’s left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. But when Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to the nursery to bear sons until she dies trying, she knows she must take humanity’s revenge into her own hands. Alongside her brother’s brilliant but seditious friend and a lonely, captive alien, she escapes from everything she’s ever known into a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could have imagined. A thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is award-winning author Emily Tesh’s highly anticipated debut novel.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Queer
  • LGBT
  • Fantasy
  • Lesbian
  • Adult
  • Space Opera
  • Space
  • Hugo Award Winner

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Quick answers

Who wrote Some Desperate Glory?

Some Desperate Glory was written by Emily Tesh and first published in 2022.

What genre is Some Desperate Glory?

It is usually shelved as Lesbian & Sapphic Fiction, Queer Fantasy and Queer Science Fiction.

How long is Some Desperate Glory?

The median edition has 464 pages, about 8–9 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Some Desperate Glory?

Readers who like it often enjoy Persephone Station, The Book Eaters and Final Strife.

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