Hell's Heart
Tor/Forge · Hardcover · March 10, 2026
Gideon the Ninth meets Moby-Dick in USA Today bestselling author Alexis Hall's thrilling SF debut, Hell's Heart!
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- Who it’s for
- A spacefaring hunt brings monstrous stakes and a bluntly funny voice to the edge of disaster.
- Themes
- Survival in a hostile future, Hunting giant space monsters, Dependence on monster-derived fuel
- Pacing
- Fast
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Gideon the Ninth meets Moby-Dick in USA Today bestselling author Alexis Hall's thrilling SF debut, Hell's Heart! A Most Anticipated Book: Book Riot |The Pink News | Diva Magazine | Audible | Bookpage They are monsters, legends, gods. They are our prey. Earth is dead. Which leaves us stuck living in atmospheric domes on planets that will kill us if we blink wrong, or run out of fuel. And by “fuel” I mean “the cerebrospinal fluid of gargantuan, quasi-psychic space monsters”.
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I joined the hunt hoping to get paid and maybe laid, but mostly paid. Instead, I followed a captain chasing abominations in the skies of Jupiter. We battled the Möbius Beast itself, there in the red eye of the world. Spoiler: we lost.
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A spacefaring hunt brings monstrous stakes and a bluntly funny voice to the edge of disaster.
Come here for
- Cosmic hunts with a gloriously strange fuel problem
- A narrator chasing a paycheck into the skies of Jupiter
Expect
- Domed worlds and gargantuan, quasi-psychic space monsters
- A wry voice that knows a hunt can go very wrong
Where it sits
| Space Opera | 72% |
|---|---|
| Lesbian Fiction | 51% |
| Horror | 49% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Lesbian Fiction
- Space Opera
- Space Exploration Fiction
- Authors
- Alexis Hall
- Publisher
- Tor/Forge
- Published
- March 10, 2026
- Format
- Hardcover
- Theme
- Survival in a hostile future · Hunting giant space monsters · Dependence on monster-derived fuel
- Reading lane
- Lesbian Fiction