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James Tiptree Jr., the pen name of Alice Bradley Sheldon, is widely considered to be one of the most influential American genre writers ever, and a pioneer of feminist science fiction. 10,000 Light Years from Home, her brilliant debut collection, displays all her trademark humour, intensity and originality, with dark dystopian thrills, fast-paced intergalactic satire and hardboiled tales of alien invasion.

The Lead Trifect of planet Yanda gives Invasion Officer Morg a choice: deliver Joseph Conway safely to Earth, or lose everything. Botching this assignment would be catastrophic, and Conway has no intention of making the journey easy on Morg. After things go awry, they are forced to land on the ultimate vice planet in the universe. Trying to avoid arrest, conspiracies, deadly secrets, and biological threats, the unlikely duo battles to find their way to the ancient home of humanity.

Strange messages pop up worldwide on computers, cell phones, and other devices. A team of scientists is assigned to solve the mystery, but after weeks of trying, none of them have a clue. They reach out to Dr. Airina Feivel, a 28-year-old renowned Astrobiologist and Theoretical Physicist, famous not only for her world-acclaimed book, “A Dissertation About Quantum Life Forms,” but also for her awkward behavior. Airina takes charge of the situation and soon begins to solve the puzzle in the midst of suffering multiple homicide attempts for reasons unrelated to her investigation.