A Broken Darkness

by Premee Mohamed

Overview

In the heartwrenching follow-up to last year’s breakout Beneath the Rising, the war with the nameless things from Beyond opens a new front – as the heroes’ tattered friendship is finally torn apart.

It’s been a year and a half since the Anomaly, when They tried to force Their way into the world from the shapeless void.

Nick Prasad is piecing his life together, and has joined the secretive Ssarati Society to help monitor threats to humanity – including his former friend Johnny.

Right on cue, the unveiling of Johnny’s latest experiment sees a fresh incursion of Them, leaving her protesting her innocence even as the two of them are thrown together to fight the darkness once more...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781088753
Publisher:	Solaris
Publication date:	04/01/2021
Series:	Beneath the Rising , #2
Pages:	480
Sales rank:	341,346
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.80(h) x 1.40(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.

Editorial Reviews

03/08/2021

Mohamed’s thrilling, intricate sequel to Beneath the Rising picks up a year and a half after the events of the first book. Nick Prasad, driven by hatred for his former best friend, genius inventor Joanna “Johnny” Chambers, has joined the mystical Ssarati Society to help monitor magical threats against Earth. Mohamed’s lush, intense prose bewitches as Nick volunteers to spy on Johnny at the unveiling of her new reactor. When the party is overrun by monsters, Nick’s convinced that the eldritch horrors known as Them are back, having found a way to bypass Johnny’s spell that destroyed the gates between their worlds. Now Nick coerces Johnny to let him help her uncover how They are getting through. Johnny’s scientific theories can be difficult to parse, as their quest takes them through chaotic alternate dimensions, but they result in one of the more convincing scientific frameworks for the existence of magic. New readers won’t want to jump in with this volume, but existing fans will be thrilled as Mohamed builds to an exhilarating finale. Expertly melding sci-fi, horror, and literary elements, this is an astounding examination of a shattered friendship. Agent: Michael Curry, Donald Maass Literary. (Mar).

Publishers Weekly

"With a strong sense of adventure and an engaging prose style, A Broken Darkness is a worthy, enjoyable entry to the sprawling genre of cosmic fiction."

Aurealis

A wonderful adventure, rife with strange heart and weird horror.

Chuck Wendig

A perfect balance of thriller, horror and humour; reminded me of The Gone-Away World.” — Adrian Tchaikovsky

Adrian Tchaikovsky

A galloping global adventure where lies and privilege are as villainous as the cthulonic forces our heroes must rush to stop.

Brooke Bolander

Every reveal is gasp-out-loud astonishing.

Charlie Jane Anders