Praise for The Surviving Sky " Precise, exquisite, and jaw-dropping . The world is rich and alien and wonderfully new, grounded by characters so familiar they ache. I loved every page." -- Dan Wells, New York Times bestselling author of the John Cleaver series "In this brilliant, gorgeous debut, Kritika H. Rao's The Surviving Sky weaves a kaleidoscopic environmental plot with relationships that feel very real indeed. The combination is electric. I loved watching the main characters grow, evolve, and become unforgettable, each in their own right. This is a story unlike any I've read before , an epic adventure through fantastic landscapes and heartscapes.
" --Fran Wilde, double Nebula Award-winning author of Updraft and Riverland "Breathtakingly inventive, The Surviving Sky is a twisty, cerebral journey through a fractured marriage, a world plagued by storms, and the question of what it means to be human. This is a book to get lost in ." --Tasha Suri, author of The Jasmine Throne "With lush prose, compelling characters, and a wonderfully built world , The Surviving Sky has everything I hope for in a novel. This is a book for anyone who has ever loved and longed for the natural world around them." --Joshua Phillip Johnson, author of The Forever Sea " The Surviving Sky dares to imagine a boldly unique fantasy world and succeeds in spades . Lush and evocative, this flying jungle city will draw you in, and the characters anchoring the story will keep you reading to the very end." --Rowenna Miller, author of The Unraveled Kingdom trilogy " The Surviving Sky is a high-octane science fantasy with heady, cerebral ideas and a lushly imagined world, whose story centers on a 30s-ish married couple--very unusual for fantasy! There is nothing else out there which is quite like it!" --Sunyi Dean, author of The Book Eaters " The Surviving Sky 's characters struggle passionately to balance communal survival and individual ambition, exposing the private strain on a marriage. Teeming with detailed world-building, this debut is perfect for fans of original science fantasy .
" --E.J. Beaton, author of The Councillor " The Surviving Sky is utterly creative, a heady and mysterious tapestry of love, duty, and discovery centered around a civilization toppling from the sky, a unique magic system, and an archaeological expedition into the ravenous jungle of a murder planet. Add in a slow-burn romance and Rao's exploration of human drive, desire, and consciousness--and The Surviving Sky is sure to stay with readers long after the final page." --H.M. Long, author of Hall of Smoke " A gorgeous novel , its heart a marriage simmering with love and rage, mirroring a ravaged world whose sanctuaries are in peril. Saving both involves the unraveling of nested secrets, knotted emotions, and a treacherous delve into consciousness itself.
" --Essa Hansen, author of Nophek Gloss " The Surviving Sky weaves a compelling web of wounded hearts and warped duty, as conflicting forces of ambition, love, and magic strain its characters to the breaking point in a lush world on the brink of destruction. Fall from its floating city's edge into a storm of emotions! " --Melissa Caruso, author of The Obsidian Tower.