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June 19, 2025

And today is UK book launch day for THE FOLDED SKY!

UK cover for THE FOLDED SKY by Elizabeth Bear
Dr. Sunyata Song must travel across the Milky Way to learn to communicate with the greatest discovery of her century: an artificial intelligence the size of a stellar system, in Hugo Award-winning author Bear's next science fiction epic.

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 - and her family - halfway across the galaxy to save the archaeological find of the century: an ancient alien artificial intelligence called the Baomind.

As vast as a stellar system, the Baomind orbits a dying red giant, and the star's time has nearly ended.

The remote 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 light years from home, isolated from all help, Sunya is the only one who can save them all.

Third and final bit of launch week hype! Here’s order information for the UK edition of The Folded Sky, from Gollancz.

Gollancz buy link

Waterstones buy link

Foyles buy link

Amazon UK buy link

Order links for the first two books in this interconnected but individually self-contained sequence below, so you can collect the whole set!

And as always, thank you so much for getting to the bottom of the post!

UK Cover image for Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear
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UK cover image for Machine by Elizabeth Bear
A space rescue doctor must uncover the mystery of what happened to a ghost ship and all its crew and passengers

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