Reminiscent of Miéville’s Embassytown and Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, Jennifer Marie Brissett has created a disturbing and haunting sf narrative in Destroyer of Light, interweaving mythology with interdimensional aliens, human refugees, child soldiers, and genetic engineering. Over three hundred years in the future, all humans on the planet Eleusis are refugees following the alien destruction of Earth. Within this society of haves and have-nots, of criminals and dissidents, of former alien conquerors claiming a desire for peaceful cohabitation, three stories intertwine: a young girl abducted by a violent warlord, twin brothers searching for the lost son of a human/alien couple, and a young woman with extraordinary powers who’s risen through the insurgent ranks in the borderlands called Night. Their stories skate across years to build towards one moment, when the fate of all—human and alien—hangs in the balance.

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Jennifer Marie Brissett
Once in her life Jennifer Marie Brissett owned an indie bookstore. Now she is an author and has written the novels Elysium (Aqueduct Press) and Destroyer of Light (coming out from Tor Books in Fall 2021!) Her work has been the finalist for a number of awards and has won the Philip K. Dick Special Citation. You can find her short stories in FIYAH Magazine, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Lightspeed Magazine, Motherboard Vice, Uncanny Magazine, The Future Fire, the anthology APB: Artists against Police Brutality and other publications. She lives and writes in NYC.