I Sing Against the Silent Sun

A. Merc Rustad & Ada Hoffmann Lightspeed 97 2018

Novelette 8,854 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources

A few years ago, the Gray Sun killed millions to silence the subversion of Li Sin’s revolutionary poetry. Li Sin faked their own death to escape, but somehow the Gray Sun learned the truth, and now it hunts again.

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