Our conversation, which you can read in full below, covered Nona’s surprisingly chill vibe, what it’s like to turn your trilogy into a quartet halfway through, and why Nona is living in a different genre from Gideon and Harrow. To find out more about what lies in store for us with Nona, I spoke with Tamsyn Muir via email.

It’s called Nona the Ninth, out September 13, and we here at Vox have the exclusive cover reveal. The Locked Tomb series was originally supposed to be a trilogy, but a few months ago, Muir and her publisher Tor announced that it would instead be a quartet, and there would be a new volume in store for fans. It’s a rich, luxurious set of books about the fraught power dynamics of intimate relationships, the way childhood trauma reshapes our brains, and, well, lesbian necromancers in space.

Starting with 2019’s Gideon the Ninth and continuing on with 2020’s Harrow the Ninth, the Locked Tomb series has become one part space opera, one part genre deconstruction, and one part searing exploration of grief.

Look, I’m a simple soul: You send me a book with the logline “ lesbian necromancers in space,” I’m not not going to get excited. Publisher: St Martin's Press ISBN: 9781250854117 Number of pages: 480 Weight: 300 g Dimensions: 208 x 135 mm You may also be interested in.While we at Vox like to maintain a scholarly distance from much of today’s culture, I make an exception for Tamsyn Muir’s Locked Tomb series. And each night, Nona dreams of a woman with a skull-painted face. Nona would prefer to live an ordinary life with the people she loves, with Pyrrha and Camilla and Palamedes, but she also knows that nothing lasts forever. Their leaders want Nona to be the weapon that will save them from the Nine Houses. Blood of Eden forces have surrounded the last Cohort facility and wait for the Emperor Undying to come calling. A monstrous blue sphere hangs on the horizon, ready to tear the planet apart. Six months ago she woke up in a stranger's body, and she's afraid she might have to give it back. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs.

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