The Siege of Burning Grass: Shortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
The paperback release of 2024's stunning meditation on war and violence by an award-winning author.

The Empires of Varkal and Med’ariz have always been at war.

Alefret, the founder of Varkal’s pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked up in a secret prison and tortured by a ‘visionary’ scientist. But now they’re offering him a chance of freedom.

Ordered to infiltrate one of Med’ariz’s flying cities, obeying the bloodthirsty zealot Qhudur, he must find fellow anti-war activists in the enemy’s population and provoke them into an uprising against their rulers.

He should refuse to serve the warmongers, but what if he could end this pointless war once and for all? Is that worth compromising his own morals and the principles of his fellow resistance members?
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The Siege of Burning Grass: Shortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
The paperback release of 2024's stunning meditation on war and violence by an award-winning author.

The Empires of Varkal and Med’ariz have always been at war.

Alefret, the founder of Varkal’s pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked up in a secret prison and tortured by a ‘visionary’ scientist. But now they’re offering him a chance of freedom.

Ordered to infiltrate one of Med’ariz’s flying cities, obeying the bloodthirsty zealot Qhudur, he must find fellow anti-war activists in the enemy’s population and provoke them into an uprising against their rulers.

He should refuse to serve the warmongers, but what if he could end this pointless war once and for all? Is that worth compromising his own morals and the principles of his fellow resistance members?
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The Siege of Burning Grass: Shortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

The Siege of Burning Grass: Shortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

by Premee Mohamed
The Siege of Burning Grass: Shortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

The Siege of Burning Grass: Shortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

by Premee Mohamed

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The paperback release of 2024's stunning meditation on war and violence by an award-winning author.

The Empires of Varkal and Med’ariz have always been at war.

Alefret, the founder of Varkal’s pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked up in a secret prison and tortured by a ‘visionary’ scientist. But now they’re offering him a chance of freedom.

Ordered to infiltrate one of Med’ariz’s flying cities, obeying the bloodthirsty zealot Qhudur, he must find fellow anti-war activists in the enemy’s population and provoke them into an uprising against their rulers.

He should refuse to serve the warmongers, but what if he could end this pointless war once and for all? Is that worth compromising his own morals and the principles of his fellow resistance members?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781837861835
Publisher: Solaris
Publication date: 03/11/2025
Pages: 384
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.60(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, Ignyte, British Fantasy, and Crawford awards. She is an Assistant Editor at the short fiction audio venue Escape Pod and the author of the Beneath the Rising series of novels as well as several novellas. Her short fiction has appeared in many venues.
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