Plague Birds: The Red Day Edition - Paperback

by Jason Sanford (Author)

Return to Jason Sanford's dark sci-fi world in Plague Birds: The Red Day Edition, newly-edited and with an additional afterword and short story, "Little Fathers of Darkness," originally published in Robotic Ambitions: Tales of Mechanical Sentience.

In a world of gene-modded humans constantly watched over by benevolent AIs, everyone hates and fears the plague birds. But to save her father and home village, Crista becomes the very creature she fears the most. And her first task as a plague bird is hunting down an ancient group of murderers wielding magic-like powers.

As Crista and her AI symbiote travel farther from home than she ever imagined, they are plunged into a strange world where she judges wrongdoers, befriends other outcasts, and uncovers an extremely personal conspiracy that threatens the lives of millions.

Plague Birds is a genre-bending mix of science fiction and dark fantasy and the epic story of a young woman who becomes one of the future's most hated creatures, with a killer AI bonded to her very blood.

Author Biography

Jason Sanford is an award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer. He's also published dozens of stories in magazines such as Asimov's Science Fiction, Apex Magazine, Interzone, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies along with appearances in various " year's best" anthologies and The New Voices of Science Fiction. His first novel Plague Birds was a finalist for both the 2022 Nebula Award and Philip K. Dick Award.