Rich Larson was born in Galmi, Niger, has studied in Rhode Island and worked in the south of Spain, and now lives in Ottawa, Canada. His work appears in numerous Year's Best anthologies, as well as his debut collection Tomorrow Factory, and has been translated into Chinese, Vietnamese, Polish, French, Czech and Italian. Besides writing, he enjoys travelling, learning languages, playing soccer, watching basketball, shooting pool, and dancing kizomba.
"Icy, dangerous, yet darkly hopeful. An exhilarating journey that
left me awed."--Hugo finalist Sheree Ren�e Thomas, author of Nine
Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future
"Sci-fi thriller at its ice-cold coolest... Propulsive, terrifying,
and human."--Tamsyn Muir, New York Times best-selling author of the
Locked Tomb series
"[Ymir] hurtles forward at dizzying speeds on an engine of jagged
gorgeous writing. I adored Yorick, with his broken heart and his
bad attitude and worse decisions...I ached with every twist and
turn of his hideous beautiful journey."
-Sam J Miller, Nebula-award-winning author of Blackfish City--Sam
J. Miller, Nebula award-winning author of Blackfish City
"Endlessly inventive, richly textured, and pricked with poignant
beauty. If Alien met Neuromancer, and the mutant progeny was
birthed in the amniotic fluid of pure myth, Ymir would be the
result."--Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Hugo and Locus finalist
"Phenomenal, visceral, high-octane scifi... Altered Carbon
unsleeves in a dystopian Beowulf."--Derek K�nsken,
Aurora-award-winning author of The Quantum Magician
"An astonishing SF thriller with whiplash surprises and an ending
that resonates...Ymir gets all over you and won't come off."--James
Patrick Kelly, winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards
"Cyberpunk as fuck...I loved every gritty, punishing page of
it."--Tim Miller, director of LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS and Deadpool
"Larson is a writer who can do just about anything, and in his
second novel he splices Iain M. Banks with Alastair Reynolds...This
is brain-busting sci-fi for the hardcore crowd."--Nick Wolven,
author of "Snowflake"
"Original, unpredictable, and starkly beautiful. A screaming dirge
of a story."--Ted Kosmatka, author of The Flicker Men
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