#nicolekornherstace

[paulsemel]

When Nicole Kornher-Stace released the dystopian sci-fi novel "Firebreak," people said it hit, "too close to home." So what existential horrors await readers in the follow-up, "Flight & Anchor"? You'll just have to read this exclusive interview (or, y'know, the book itself) to find out. 📖🖊️

[squirrelwriter]

Last Sentence Tag Game

Rules: Write the latest line from your wip (or post where you last left off in your art) and tag as many people as there are words in the line. Make a new post, don’t reblog.

Thanks for the tag @thepatchycat , and best of luck with your WIP! :3 I, in contrast, shall merrily drop my last line without offering any context whatsoever:

"[...] Sounded like the warlord put a knife in Finn's back, to me."

Tagging @jayfeatherss , @cassiopeia721, @nicolekornherstace, and uh struggling to remember usernames off the top of my head, so anyone else who wants to play!

[asymmetryestablished]

@nicolekornherstace vibes

Ah, it’s too late to post this on Halloween.  But here is a little story about ghosts, and roommates, and roommates who are ghosts.

[fredhandbag]

Do you like dystopian fiction with a side of virtual reality? In her new book, Firebreak, Nicole Kornher-Stace writes about Mallory - a girl who spends her days trying to earn enough water credits to stay alive. Mal spends most of her time playing SecOps on BestLife trying to rack up enough kills to get on the boards. A random encounter with one of the game's super-soldiers sends her and her friend Jessa on a side quest - one that uncovers information that the corporate masters want to keep hidden. And now the survival of Mal and her bunkmates is in jeopardy." Mal is a great character. She sucks at interactions with people but wants to do the right thing. There are many moments for her of "Why didn't I say that?' Aren't we all like that? This is a bleak society that NKS gives us. People always hungry and thirsty. Living on top of each other. Having to work multiple odd jobs just to survive. And never knowing when a drone blast might bring your building down. The story feels familiar if you've read any recent dystopian science-fiction at all. But the story is fast-paced. There are characters you can pull for. You'll want to keep turning pages to find out what happens. An unexpected messy ending from NKS but it works. This is the first book I've read from NKS but the writing has a great flow. Thanks to @netgalley and @gallerybooks for the advanced copy. Firebreak releases 5/4. #firebreak #nicolekornherstace #gallerybooks #netgalley #dystopianfiction #sciencefiction #virtualreality #bookstagram #bookshelves #booknerd #bookhoarder #bookworm #sodacityreads #bookish #bookreview #hardcover #novelsuspect #bookcover #bookhaul #literarycrimefiction #goodreads #homelibrary #fiction #crimefiction #thriller https://www.instagram.com/p/COaX5dtLcj2/?igshid=exf53ppkc9qc

[jujiepoo]

The only way out was through... I seriously loved this intensely dark and captivating little novel 👻 #archivistwasp #nicolekornherstace #catchkeep #postapocalyptic #ilovereading #yalit #yafiction #bookstagram

[asymmetryestablished]

@nicolekornherstace

Tfw your shapeshifter friend forgets how to turn back into a human and has a crisis

[yawednesdays-blog]

#archivistwasp is a derisive read here at #yawednesdays Find Carmen's review here: https://yawednesdays.wordpress.com/2015/08/19/archivist-wasp-the-enigma/ Find Ann's review here: https://yawednesdays.wordpress.com/2015/08/19/this-wasp-lacks-sting-review-of-archivist-wasp-by-nicole-kornher-stace/ Tell us what you think in the comments! #bookstagram #yafiction #nicolekornherstace #bigmouthhouse #bookreview

[paulsemel]

And now something for fans of YA sci-fi and Spaceman Spiff: My exclusive interview with Nicole Kornher-Stace and Scott Brown, the writer and artist, respectfully, of "Jillian Vs. Parasite Planet." 📖🚀🪐👽

[paulsemel]

Though she loves #VideoGames and hates big corporations, in this exclusive interview, writer Nicole Kornher-Stace admits she was a bit nervous about incorporating both into her new dystopian sci-fi novel, "Firebreak." 📖🏪🏬

[asymmetryestablished]

if y’all haven’t discovered them yet, @nicolekornherstace writes a lot of this and writes it real well

NOT ONLY do i want more m/f friendships in media where there's nothing romantic between them, but i want m/f friendships where both characters are SINGLE so that there's no reason there to "justify" why those two can't date. i want the platonicness of their relationship to be something that stands on its own merit.

[jujiepoo]

OMGEEEEEEEEEEEEE THE LIBRARY'S OPEN YAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!! After several months of remodeling @cadlibrary downtown is reopen! Obvs went a little nuts lol #cadl #allthebooks #ilovebooks #ilovereading #yafiction #graphicnovels #fantasy #fairytales #sciencefiction #neilgaiman #sandmancomics #blackscience #rickremender #lumberjanes #noellestevenson #silviamorenogarcia #certaindarkthings #melissalanders #starfall #sjaejones #wintersong #nicolekornherstace #archivistwasp #ljsmith #theforbiddengame #patrickness #amonstercalls #bookstagram

[yawednesdays-blog]

Archivist Wasp, The Enigma Archivist Wasp begins like a gunshot—it shoots out of the barrel and it’s aimed right at the reader.

[yawednesdays-blog]

This Wasp Lacks Sting: Review of ‘Archivist Wasp’ by Nicole Kornher-Stace

This Wasp Lacks Sting: Review of ‘Archivist Wasp’ by Nicole Kornher-Stace

I was very excited about the premise of Nicole Kornher-Stace’s debut novel Archivist Wasp. In the who-knows-how-distant future, civilization has been destroyed and humans are living in feudal conditions. Female infants chosen by the Goddess herself are taken from their parents and trained by the Catchkeep Priest to be Archivists, warriors who speak to the dead in an attempt to discover just how…

[asymmetryestablished]

not necessarily a helpful bit of info given the timeline I'm working with, but perhaps a cheering one: the novel I'm writing ticks a lot of these boxes

urban fantasy

intensely platonic relationship at the forefront (abaolutely zero romance, just intense queerplatonic love)

worldbuilding that I'm putting a lot of love into (and which is, by all accounts, very cool)

mature (not sexual, just... mature) tone (haven't decided yet about swearing but there are already plenty of very chill references to things like sex and sex work, and the more mundane problems the characters face are adult problems)

one textually and one subtextually queer protagonist

unnamed but explicit & deliberate autistic & ADHD characters

so, like... you're not alone in wanting this stuff, and the number of other writers making it happen is not zero, even if my book specifically happens not to be done yet

(also in the meantime go check out some stuff by @nicolekornherstace bc a lot of it may be marketed as YA but it's not really)

Need more fantasy books aimed at adults and teenagers. Like, I feel like when you hit a certain age 90% of books aimed at you are romance. And my arospec brain isn't happy about this. Let me have more fantasy books, and yes I can read children's books, but because they're aimed at children they're always lower quality and seem to have way worse world + character building. Also the characters can't do things like swear or make adult jokes, which yeah aren't needed but would be nice and make the characters more relatable. And I am an author so I can do stuff about this but I still want other books too.

Also more representation in fantasy please. Want a LGBTQ+/poc/disabled/other minority character who's story isn't entirely centred around that alone.

[yawednesdays-blog]

#archivistwasp book review notes #youngadultliterature #ya #yawednesdays #bigmouthhouse #nicolekornherstace