Hello, explorers! It’s somehow the middle of summer already, and that means I’m coming up fast on the launch of my new standalone novella, To Be Taught, If Fortunate. It’s a love letter to science and space travel, told through a crew of astronauts conducting an ecological survey of a planetary system fourteen light years from Earth. It’s full of beautiful things and troubling things and big questions and little wonders. This pint-size book is the closest thing I’ve ever written to home, in terms of distance, time, and...well, me. I hope you’ll check it out. (And as for the biggest Big Question in there: yeah, I really do want to know your answer.)

If you’re interested in pre-ordering, here’s the pertinent info for people on both sides of the pond.

UK launch (and pre-order giveaway!)

To Be Taught will be out in the UK on August 8. If you like free stuff and are a UK resident over the age of 16, the team at Hodder & Stoughton has cooked up something pretty cool. Use this link right here to pre-order by August 7, and they’ll send you a travel journal to document your scientific travels through the Zhenyi system. Neat, right?

US launch

Fellow Americans, the good folks at Harper Voyager will have the book in your hands on September 3. If you’d like to pre-order, head this way.

Ad astra,

Becky

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PPS, for those wondering, I will indeed be at Worldcon, and have some other events coming up as well. Details on all of that soon!