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    Destroyer of Light
    Destroyer of Light
    Destroyer of Light
    Audiobook9 hours

    Destroyer of Light

    Written by Jennifer Marie Brissett

    Narrated by Cherise Boothe and Landon Woodson

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    The Matrix meets an Afro-futuristic retelling of Persephone set in a science fiction underworld of aliens, refugees, and genetic engineering in Jennifer Marie Brissett's Destroyer of Light

    Kirkus—Best Fiction Books of the Year 2021
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    New York Public Library—Nine New Sci-Fi & Fantasy Reads
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    Having destroyed Earth, the alien conquerors resettle the remains of humanity on the planet of Eleusis. In the four habitable areas of the planet—Day, Dusk, Dawn, and Night—the haves and have nots, criminals and dissidents, and former alien conquerors irrevocably bind three stories:

    *A violent warlord abducts a young girl from the agrarian outskirts of Dusk leaving her mother searching and grieving.
    *Genetically modified twin brothers desperately search for the lost son of a human/alien couple in a criminal underground trafficking children for unknown purposes.
    *A young woman with inhuman powers rises through the insurgent ranks of soldiers in the borderlands of Night.

    Their stories, often containing disturbing physical and sexual violence, skate across years, building to a single confrontation when the fate of all—human and alien—balances upon a knife’s-edge.

    A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateOct 12, 2021
    ISBN9781250824868
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    Jennifer Marie Brissett

    JENNIFER MARIE BRISSETT has been a software engineer, web developer, and the proprietor of Indigo Café & Books in Brooklyn. She has a Masters in Creative Writing from the Stonecoast MFA Program. Her stories can be found in Lightspeed Magazine, Motherboard/VICE, Uncanny Magazine, and FIYAH Magazine amongst other publications. Her debut novel, Elysium (Aqueduct 2014) received the Philip K. Dick Award Special Citation and has been a finalist for the Locus Award for Best First Novel and the Tiptree Award.

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