It crawled out of its broken egg and cowered in the muddy drainage ditch. The monster looked like an old grandmother from the waist up, but instead of legs it had six long octopus legs. When she gets the opportunity take a team to 2000 BC to survey the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, she jumps at the chance to uncover the secrets of the shadowy think tank that controls time travel technology. She’s spent her entire life restoring river ecosystems, but lately the kind of long-term restoration projects Minh works on have been stalled due to the invention of time travel.

Minh is part of the generation that first moved back up to the surface of the Earth from the underground hells, to reclaim humanity’s ancestral habitat. In 2267, Earth has just begun to recover from worldwide ecological disasters.

From Kelly Robson, Aurora Award winner, Campbell, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon finalist, and author of Waters of Versaillesĭiscover a shifting history of adventure as humanity clashes over whether to repair their ruined planet or luxuriate in a less tainted past. “Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach is a tour-de-force, with nuanced characters in a masterfully conceived world of stunning, mind-bending eco-tech.” -Annalee NewitzĮxperience this far-reaching, mind-bending science fiction adventure that uses time travel to merge climate fiction with historical fantasy. Today, we are happy to be hosting an exclusive excerpt from Kelly Robson’s novella, Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach – out from Tor.com Publishing in March this year.

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