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The Last Gifts of the Universe
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Science FictionGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction
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ISBN10: 1335002685
ISBN13: 9781335002686
Publisher: Hanover Square Press
Published: Sep 29 2026
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781335002686
Publisher: Hanover Square Press
Published: Sep 29 2026
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
AN AUDIBLE BEST OF THE YEAR PICK for 2024!
A Waterstones August Book of the Month Pick!
A quietly profound story about grief, purpose, and our place in the universe...Come for the cat, stay for the story.--Sunyi Dean, internationally bestselling author of The Book Eaters
A dying universe. A search for answers. An adventure at the end of a trillion lifetimes.
When the Home worlds finally achieved the technology to venture out into the stars, they found a graveyard of dead civilisations. What befell them is unknown. All Home knows is that they are the last ones left - and whatever came for the others will one day come for them.
Scout is an Archivist who scours the dead worlds of the cosmos for their last gifts: interesting technology, cultural rituals - anything left behind that might be useful to Home and their survival. During an excavation on a lifeless planet, Scout unearths something unbelievable: a surviving message from an alien who witnessed the world-ending entity thousands of years ago.
Now Scout, their brother and their sometimes-fearless, space-faring cat, Pumpkin, must race to save what matters most.
The Last Gifts of the Universe is a meditation on grief and meaning disguised in the spacesuit of a thrilling, beam-me-up galactic treasure hunt. Riley August has written a quietly wonderful, hopeful novel that heals the parts of you that you didn't know were hurt. --Julie Leong, author of The Teller of Small Fortunes
For readers who love:
A Waterstones August Book of the Month Pick!
A quietly profound story about grief, purpose, and our place in the universe...Come for the cat, stay for the story.--Sunyi Dean, internationally bestselling author of The Book Eaters
A dying universe. A search for answers. An adventure at the end of a trillion lifetimes.
When the Home worlds finally achieved the technology to venture out into the stars, they found a graveyard of dead civilisations. What befell them is unknown. All Home knows is that they are the last ones left - and whatever came for the others will one day come for them.
Scout is an Archivist who scours the dead worlds of the cosmos for their last gifts: interesting technology, cultural rituals - anything left behind that might be useful to Home and their survival. During an excavation on a lifeless planet, Scout unearths something unbelievable: a surviving message from an alien who witnessed the world-ending entity thousands of years ago.
Now Scout, their brother and their sometimes-fearless, space-faring cat, Pumpkin, must race to save what matters most.
The Last Gifts of the Universe is a meditation on grief and meaning disguised in the spacesuit of a thrilling, beam-me-up galactic treasure hunt. Riley August has written a quietly wonderful, hopeful novel that heals the parts of you that you didn't know were hurt. --Julie Leong, author of The Teller of Small Fortunes
For readers who love:
- Cozy sci-fi by T.J. Klune and Becky Chambers
- Hope-core space stories such as Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary
- LGBTQ+ representation
- Healing stories about grief and second chances
- Cats in space
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