MASSIF – A NOVEL BY GARTH NIX

FromNew York Timesbestseller and master of speculative fiction Garth Nix comes his first foray into adult science fiction with a brilliant and poignant stand-alone story of sentient starships, galactic warfare, and the bonds a crew forms far, far from Earth.

Caught me a mountain
Rode it to the stars

Its business as usual for Ship Leader Parnell Shi-Sawahla and the crew of the corvetteSassafras.Ride a Massif to a new system, fight the enemy, repeat. For more than two hundred years humans have been hitching rides on these sentient, starfaring mountain ranges, colonizing planets and exporting an on and off again war between Earth and Mars.

But the big questions are always there, behind every battle, every new colony, every new star system discovery.

Why do the Massifs carry humans to the stars?

Why do they help us export our wars?

Whats in it for the Massifs?

Ship crews arent supposed to ask these questions, they arent supposed to think about these questions, and they definitely arent supposed togo deepand talk to Massif avatars. But now Parnell and his tight-knit crew must try to find the answers, to save not only themselves but the future of humanity.

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