I’m very excited to announce a new novella, The Practice, The Horizon, and the Chain, forthcoming from Tor.com in 2024! This is a science fantasy about a starship built around a university and a prison. Here’s my description from the official announcement:

This book is for people who sit in meetings wondering why words like diversity, equity, access, inclusion, and even justice do not seem to be adding up to anything real. It’s for people whose time and energy are devoured by proposals and projects they hope will transform the places where they live and work, and who wind up drained and bewildered, gazing at the same old walls. It’s for everybody who experiences these things, in any kind of workplace, and especially for people who study and work in universities, because this story is set at a university on a spaceship. It’s about frustrated, scared, revolutionary students and teachers—in space! So, obviously, it’s a fantasy. It’s a mystical space adventure for the exhausted dreamer, a story where you can breathe your way out of prison, where the carbon atoms you exhale and the carbon in your bones interact in a potent way with the carbon scattered throughout the universe, in stones, in water, in other people. This book is not a blueprint for fixing any kind of system. It’s an invitation to exist in the cracks. If you are sitting in a terrible meeting and you put your hand on this book, you will be embraced by a circle of power.

And since there is no image yet for this book, the picture here is the notebook where I wrote the first draft!