"A remarkable debut novel - powerful, haunting, and beautiful."
—M. R. Carey, author of The Girl With All the Gifts
"Thoughtful and luminous . . . [A] powerful debut novel . . . it's a provocative novel with difficult questions about the fundamental nature how people choose to live their lives."—Los Angeles Times on The Ship
"Honeywell's lyrical descriptions of Lalla's thoughts and the ship itself are haunting . . . . will appeal to lovers of psychological speculative fiction."—Publishers Weekly
"Honeywell's dystopian coming-of-age tale is challenging and intense...A solid YA crossover"—Library Journal on The Ship
"Honeywell's assured debut is an exercise in noose-tightening tension and lyrical prose."—Barnes and Noble Science Fiction and Fantasy Blog
"Honeywell's eloquent tale raises thought-provoking questions about the difficult task of growing up, no matter the time or place: What do you do when the people you trust will no longer listen to you? What do you do when they're wrong?"—The Washington Post
"Addictive"—Elle
"As engrossing as it is chilling, this potent first novel fuses an apocalyptic coming of age story with a fierce interrogation of what it means to be truly alive."
—Daily Mail
"The Ship is tense, engaging and emotionally charged: I devoured this novel."
—Helen Dunmore, author of The Lie
"Honeywell's debut is ambitious and well written and provides endless possibilities for debate."
—The Guardian
"The Hunger Games meets the London riots on board Noah's Ark 20 years from now, but don't underestimate its originality. Read it and be challenged."
—The Times (UK)
"An ambitious debut that takes the tale of the Ark and updates it for a world bedeviled by global warming... will send shivers up your spine."
—Harper's Bazaar
"This is a must read for all Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic fans. It is a pleasant change from the typical novels in the genre."—YA Books Central
We seem to be living in a golden age of dystopian science fiction. Whatever the reality around us (and surely some of motivation for this grim prognosticating is our increasingly interconnected society, in which every misery is dramatized for quick consumption), there’s a real sense the wheels have come off the cart; it only makes […]
For nearly two decades, Jim Killen has served as the science fiction and fantasy book buyer for Barnes & Noble. Every month on Tor.com and the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, Jim shares his curated list of the month’s can’t-miss new SFF releases.
We don’t know about you, but there are still dozens of 2016 books on our teetering mountain of books we really, really want to read, provided we manage to live long enough. Which is why we approach the massive post below with equal parts excitement and trepidation. We asked sci-fi and fantasy editors from all the […]
Science fiction has always been about showing us the impossible, or depicting the possible in ways no one has imagined before. A debut sci-fi novel is, therefore, a pretty meta occurrence—something that didn’t exist yesterday, something you didn’t imagine ever existing, suddenly sitting in your hands. It’s like landing on a new planet: you don’t know if […]