Displaying 1 of 1 2019 Format: Book Author: Starling, Caitlin, author. Title: The luminous dead : a novel / Caitlin Starling. Edition: First edition. Publisher, Date: New York, New York : Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] ©2019 Description: 414 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm Summary: A caver who takes a dangerous job to make enough money to escape her hardscrabble planet begins to doubt her handler's motivations. Subjects: Spelunkers -- Fiction. Caving -- Fiction. Extraterrestrial bases -- Fiction. Genre: Psychological fiction. Science fiction. Psychological fiction. ISBN: 9780062846907 (softcover) 0062846906 (softcover) OCLC: 1090731632 System Availability: 1 # System items in: 1 # Local items: 0 # Local items in: 0 Current Holds: 0 Place Request Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Awards Large Cover Image Trade Reviews Publishers Weekly ReviewStarling's riveting near-future debut depicts an intense psychological battle of wills between two damaged, deeply flawed women who forge an unbreakable connection in the dark. Gyre Price, an amateur caver from an impoverished mining world, is desperate to earn enough money to discover the fate of her mother, who abandoned their family when Gyre was young-and she isn't above falsifying her qualifications to get the high-paying job she needs. Aware of Gyre's deception, Em, Gyre's controlling, manipulative handler, guides her on a harrowing journey into the depths of a rarely explored cave system on some unexplained, ill-fated errand. To survive the darkness and the threats concealed therein, Gyre must confront monsters from her own imagination as well as those from Em's bloody past, and defeat them both. Both women can be messy, cruel, and selfish, and Starling disregards conventional notions of such women seeking or needing absolution. This claustrophobic, horror-leaning tour de force is highly recommended for fans of Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation and Andy Weir's The Martian. Agent: Caitlin McDonald, Donald Maass Literary. (Apr.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved. Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
