Tiffany Trent, author of The Unnaturalists Kornher-Stace is a genius, and I can't wait to see what she does next!" "One of the most revelatory and sublime books I've ever read, Archivist Wasp is a must-read for fans of post-apocalyptic fiction. Delia Sherman, author of The Freedom Maze Reading it was a wild ride and a thoroughly satisfying one." "A gorgeous, disturbing, compelling book with a smart, complicated heroine who bestrides her post-apocalyptic world like a bewildered force of nature. Jeff VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach trilogy Archivist Wasp is like Kafka by way of Holly Black and Shirley Jackson, but completely original. "A tremendously inventive and smart novel. Wasp won me over, and she's sure to find fans among teens and grown-ups alike." " Archivist Wasp is a gorgeous and complex book, featuring a deadly girl who traverses an equally deadly landscape. Or so they've been told for four hundred years.Īrchivist Wasp fears she is not the chosen one, that she won't survive the trip to the underworld, that the brutal life she has escaped might be better than where she is going. After all, Archivists are marked from birth to do the holy work of a goddess. She will go with him on his underworld hunt for the long-long ghost of his partner and in exchange she will find out more about his pre-apocalyptic world than any Archivist before her. Desperate and alone, she strikes a bargain with the ghost of a supersoldier. And every year she has to fight to remain Archivist.
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