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Also by Sue Burke:

Usurpation, November 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Dual Memory, April 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Dual Memory, May 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Immunity Index, May 2022
Trade Size / e-Book
Immunity Index, May 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
Interference, November 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
Semiosis, March 2019
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)

USURPATION
By: Sue Burke

Semiosis #3
Tor Books
November 2024
On Sale: October 29, 2024
240 pages
ISBN: 1250809169
EAN: 9781250809162
Kindle: B0CQHLPYKY
Hardcover / e-Book
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Science Fiction Space Opera

After her rollicking standalone Dual Memory, Sue Burke returns to her Semiosis series and the world of Pax in Usurpation, which combines the thrill of M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening with the eco-empowerment of VanderMeer’s Dead Astronauts.

Stevland, the dominant sentient lifeform of Pax, has clandestinely sent some of its progeny to Earth. To explore, to spread, to report back.

Since their germination, Earth has been a powder keg. Human rebellion, robot uprisings, and global pandemics have created chaos, distrust, and deaths.

As more and more conflicts break out across Earth, Stevland's children work in the background, in an attempt to control human behavior and perhaps, bring peace to the planet. Stevland took control of Pax. Earth shouldn’t be too difficult…