About the Author

Patricia Ward was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, moving to the United States when she was eighteen. She is the author of the The Bullet Collection, an award-winning novel about two sisters growing up in wartime Beirut. Ward is also a book artist specializing in miniature books and dioramas. She lives with her family near Boston, Massachusetts.

Reviews

ONE OF AMAZON’S 20 BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY BOOKS OF 2016

“A gut-punching novel, consistently taut and bleak. Readers will feel Lucy hanging on by her fingernails just beneath the human world and bloodied by every hard climb upward.”
—Publishers Weekly

“A fiercely original premise carried to a logical and thought-provoking conclusion. . . . this unforgettable novel is sure to haunt readers long after they’ve turned the last page. Highly recommended.”
—SF Signal

“Ward's prose is expressive and often unexpectedly beautiful. . .High-caliber, often engrossing literary sci-fi.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“A masterly written slowburner... Skinner Luce is a dark and beautiful dystopian hallucination that will keep you simultaneously cringing and wanting more. Lucy glows like an ember of rage and strength in search of personal liberation and redemption.”
—Seb Doubinsky, author of Song of Synth and Goodbye Babylon

"Skinner Luce paints a heroine who's more human than most in her fears and ambitions and who will grab your heart. This book will haunt you long after you put it down."
—Omnivoracious, "The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of January"

“A darkly clever concept with an oppressive atmosphere that never lets up.”
—Kit Whitfield, author of Benighted and In Great Waters

ONE OF AMAZON’S 20 BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY BOOKS OF 2016

“A gut-punching novel, consistently taut and bleak. Readers will feel Lucy hanging on by her fingernails just beneath the human world and bloodied by every hard climb upward.”
—Publishers Weekly

“A fiercely original premise carried to a logical and thought-provoking conclusion. . . . this unforgettable novel is sure to haunt readers long after they’ve turned the last page. Highly recommended.”
—SF Signal

“Ward's prose is expressive and often unexpectedly beautiful. . .High-caliber, often engrossing literary sci-fi.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“A masterly written slowburner... Skinner Luce is a dark and beautiful dystopian hallucination that will keep you simultaneously cringing and wanting more. Lucy glows like an ember of rage and strength in search of personal liberation and redemption.”
—Seb Doubinsky, author of Song of Synth and Goodbye Babylon

"Skinner Luce paints a heroine who's more human than most in her fears and ambitions and who will grab your heart. This book will haunt you long after you put it down."
—Omnivoracious, "The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of January"

“A darkly clever concept with an oppressive atmosphere that never lets up.”
—Kit Whitfield, author of Benighted and In Great Waters

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