Cover Reveal for Plutoshine (Gollancz, March 2022)

For ten months during my PhD, I wrote a novel. It was a wonderful side project, exploring a wonderful world — Pluto — and what life might be like there... both our kind, inhabiting a base, but also other kinds...

PLUTOSHINE won the inaugural Bloomsbury Writers & Artists' Working Class Writers' Prize while unpublished, and follows ten-year-old Nou on Pluto, mute from trauma, trying to reconcile with her estranged family and recover her voice. She is helped by Lucian, a terraformer wielding asteroids and solar mirrors to warm Pluto's climate, but with a saboteur on the loose, neither of their plans are likely to run smoothly...

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You can pre-order Plutoshine here:
Blackwells: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Waterstones: https://www.waterstones.com/book/9781...
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Genre: Science Fiction
Publisher: Gollancz, Orion
Length: 416 pages
Release date: 17th March 2022
Format: Hardback, ebook, audiobook

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Previous video:    • The Run-up to (and Immediately After) My Viva  
The video where I reveal I've been secretly writing a book:    • My secret side project for the past year  
Random video!    • What I did in the year between my Masters ...  

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Thank you so much to Gollancz for publishing me: this whole thing is still so surreal that I feel quite serene about it all because I haven't quite grasped that it is really happening. Thanks also to the post-rockers Silent Island for letting me use their song 'Dolphin Rush' as my closing credits; it's been four years and I still love its minor-chord joy.

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My name is Lucy Kissick, I was until recently a PhD student at the University of Oxford studying planetary sciences, but now I'm a scientist in the nuclear industry studiously dedicating myself to wild-swimming, campanology, Iain M Banks, and Christmas wreath-making.