Apocalypse Nyx

A Fantasy Hotlist Top 5 Speculative Fiction of 2018 pick

The plots are taut, thrilling, gritty, violent, profane, magical--everything Hurley's readers expect . . . Hurley has created one of the most engrossing environments in modern sf.
--Booklist

Series fans will savor original episodes featuring the battle-worn Nyx, which also serve as an introduction to new readers.
--Library Journal

An excellent introduction for those wondering whether to pick up the original trilogy or a great way for those who have already read the previous books chronicling Nyx's adventures to spend a bit more time in Nyx's violent world.
--SF Revu

This collection recaptures everything that made the Bel Dame Apocrypha such a memorable read and is a must for anyone who's a fan of the original series. Apocalypse Nyx is also the perfect opportunity for newcomers to get a feel for the universe and its protagonists for the first time.
--Fantasy Hotlist

Highly recommended as a fun adult action-packed scifi with a scoundrel protagonist.
--Read Well

If you're new to Nyx, this may be a good place to start, taking place before the current series of which she's the star. If you're already a fan, this adds some wonderfully bloody, emotionally sharp texture to an already intriguing world and characters--get on it.
--Sci-Fi and Fantasy Reviews

Apocalypse Nyx is grim, unapologetic science fiction at its best . . . gripping.
--New York Journal of Books

This is a dystopia that revels in it in a big, joyous way with cracking one-liners and tight squeezes to escape. Apocalypse Nyx is definitely not for the squeamish, but if you like your heroines as kickass as Dutch from the TV series Killjoys you'll love Nyxnissa. Good, honest science fiction fun with a feminist twist.
--Starburst

The five novellas that make up Apocalypse Nyx are packed with more glare, grit, and snarl than a junkyard full of mutated jackals, landing their punches with all the tooth-loosening, hardhat-launching, lunchbox-swinging frankness of a noontime construction worker brawl. Hurley's world of mercenaries, magicians, blood, and bug guts is dusty enough that you can feel it grinding between your molars and insistent enough that it'll yank you by the collar and not let go, a no-frills hang-the-hell-on death-rattle-and-roll Keith Moon drum solo of staccato narrative bursts.
--Bo Bolander, author of The Only Harmless Great Thing

Nyx is back and just as good as ever. In this new collection of five novellas, Kameron Hurley serves up courses of crunchy action and intrigue, layered with tender character moments that bring real depth to this intense, unique world.
--JY Yang, author of The Black Tides of Heaven and The Red Threads of Fortune

Incorrigible and unapologetically heartless, Nyx is the bounty hunter to call when the stakes are high, the payouts are iffy, and the morality is optional.
--Nicky Drayden, author of The Prey of Gods

Great for all you hard-drinking, hard punching, embittered readers who like a lot of grit in their post-apocalyptic hard-SF Biopunk . . . Nyx really shines darkly.
--Bradley Horner, author of Darkside Earther

With Nyx, Hurley masterfully writes about a strong woman who is also a very broken human being--something women are rarely allowed to be.
--Stina Leicht, author of And Blue Skies from Pain and Cold Iron

There are no limits to the universe Ms. Hurley creates.
--Virdea

Gritty with a capital grit . . . In all--I love this world, I love these stories.
--Fangs for the Fantasy

If your favourite action TV series were distilled in book form, this would be it.
--British Fantasy Society

Compelling and fast-paced, gruesome and titillating at turns, presenting an approach to gender and sexuality that is appalling but fascinating.
-- Tor.com

Kameron Hurley's Apocalypse Nyx (Tachyon) is a welcome return to the adventures of the author's iconic hard-fisted anti-heroine.
-- Seattle Review of Books

For all that God's War was nominated for every award under the sun, I enjoyed this more: Nyx's tempestuous life lends itself perfectly to discrete, action-packed episodes.
-- Interzone

Fans show up for the fatalistic prose, acid-tongued banter between hard-bitten mercenaries, over the top violence and female-centered action storytelling--Apocalypse Nyx delivers on all those fronts.
--Thousand Year Plan

Nyx is a brilliantly imagined character.
--Strange Alliances

Praise for the Bel Dame Apocrypha

On God's War

Nyxnissa would quite clearly kick Conan's ass . . . Just what the genre ordered. --Strange Horizons

Are you frustrated with Mary Sue heroines? Well, here comes God's War to rock your face off . . . If you like rough, battle-scarred women who know how to regulate, you're going to love Nyx . . . she makes Han Solo look like a boy scout. --io9

God's War is one of the most thought-provoking debuts I've read so far this year. --Locus

On Infidel

It's a pleasure to return to the fascinating and messed-up world [Hirley] created--one especially enjoyable for its ethnically diverse cast and freewheeling remixes of traditional gender roles. --Tor.com

A fast-paced book with a lot of action and smart character moments. --Strange Horizons

On Rapture

Kameron Hurley is ferociously imaginative--with an emphasis on ferocious. --Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls

Edge-of-the-seat action set within a strange and alien world that's the mutant child of Frank Herbert and Roger Zelazny. --David J. Williams, author of The Mirrored Heavens

[Nyxnissa] is gloriously self-possessed, repellently amoral, and thoroughly original. She is a woman in a man's grimdark world.--Strange Horizons

Praise for The Geek Feminist Revolution

A call to arms for those who care about the future of science fiction and fantasy. --John Scalzi, author of Redshirts

Kameron Hurley writes essays that piss people off, make them think, make them act. This is good stuff. Read it. --Kate Elliott, author of the Crown of Stars series

Filled me with blistering hope and rage. Amazing collection. --Annalee Newitz, author of Autonomous