SIGNED PRE-ORDER Lives on Other Worlds: The Collected Short Stories (Hardcover)
SIGNED PRE-ORDER Lives on Other Worlds: The Collected Short Stories (Hardcover)
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ā PRE-ORDER ships 3-5 days after August 28, 2026
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ā 28 stories. A decade of short fiction, collected for the first time
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Twenty-eight worlds. Twenty-eight lives. Every one a way of coming home.
A headless telepath job-hunts across a future that keeps offering to "fix" them. A family mails a care package across the galaxy to the person they love, who is newly alien. A musician made of code trades everything for one last song. Dragons in human shape haunt the trains between the stars. An heir stands before three gods and chooses herself.
These are stories of becoming--sapphic diplomats and nonbinary quantum souls, ace vloggers and poly superhero triads, soul-forged swords, singing stars, and one very good dog in goggles. Funny, aching, and full of hope.
Collected for the first time: a decade of short fiction from Novae Caelum, including stories first published in Escape Pod, InterGalactic Medicine Show, World Fantasy Award finalist anthology Clockwork Phoenix 5, Lambda Award winning anthology The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction 2, Diabolical Plots, and The Doomsday Chronicles. Come live on other worlds for a while.
Read on if you like:
š Sapphic romance with an alien princess
š©·š¤š Trans and nonbinary main characters and themes ā quantum ghosts, shape-shifting spies, and an heir who chooses herself before three gods
š A headless telepath
š©·š¤š An ace nonbinary vlogger, zir platonic soulmate, and a very good dog in goggles
š¦ø Office workers by day, poly superhero triad by night
š A married gay couple and the breathing quantum sculpture in their living room
š Dragons on the star-trains, gods in orbit, songs kept in baskets, and stars that answer back
BOOK DATA:
Series: Standalone ā the collected short stories, 28 stories in one volume (pre-order, ships 3-5 days after August 28, 2026)
Format: Signed hardcover (pre-order)
Heat Level: Low heat (varies by story)
Tone: Funny, aching, hopeful ā queer joy across science fiction and fantasy
Reader Fit: A decade of Novae Caelum's short fiction in one volume ā trans, nonbinary, ace, poly, and sapphic leads living whole lives on other worlds. Stories of becoming and coming home.
Behind the books: my writing process, audiobook narration, films, and the studio I'm building at How I Work.
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