Praise for Exo
"Fonda Lee's Exo is a deeply immersive story that balances fantastic, original world building with spine-tingling adventure. Days after finishing, I was still thinking about it." —Sabaa Tahir, author of the New York Times bestselling series An Ember in the Ashes
"Exo is my favorite type of sci-fi adventure-a novel that makes you question everything you think about our world . . . and what it means to be human." —Kass Morgan, author of the New York Times bestselling series The 100
"Lee constructs a plausibly alien future society and uses the premise to offer thought-provoking questions on occupation and colonization, placing her hero in a murky state of morality as she explores divided loyalties and conflicting obligations. " —Publishers Weekly
"Science fiction fans will love this title." —VOYA
"This action-packed novel asks readers to consider alien technology, what it means to be human or nonhuman, and the gray areas in war, where neither side is completely good or evil." —School Library Journal
"Lee's Zeroboxer fans will be thrilled to see the same mix of adventure, violence, and intensity that shaped her earlier novel." —BCCB
"Believable, suspenseful science fiction." —Kirkus Reviews
An Andre Norton finalist
2018-03-05
Earth, the outlying colony of an overextended alien galactic empire, falls victim to interstellar raiders in this sequel to Exo (2017).The first tentative steps toward reconciliation between the zhree overlords and the human resistance known as Sapience are thrown off-kilter by the sudden announcement from the Mur Erzen Commonwealth's capital that the zhree will be withdrawing for strategic reasons—leaving Earth vulnerable to the Rii, a nomadic, planet-destroying zhree offshoot. Donovan Reyes, a human soldier who has been Hardened with retractable armor and raised since childhood in the group-oriented zhree culture, is pitched into the middle of increasingly violent events and unwillingly finds himself a go-between, desperately seeking common ground between his own species and the zhree colonizers who, having themselves been born on Earth, are reluctant to leave. As it turns out, Donovan isn't the only member of his closely knit unit who nurses hidden connections with Sapience. All the wrestling with guilty secrets and divided loyalties makes for a talky first half, but readers who weather the angst are rewarded with a string of brutal, intense action scenes. Human diversity is indicated by names rather than physical descriptions.Slow to get going, but ultimately wins through to a hard-fought triumph. (Science fiction. 12-18)
