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*Spotify best of the month* *Gizmodo best new sci-fi, fantasy, and horror* * BOOKISH 20 Debut Novels to Read This Year * """"A Crichtonesque cascade of mistakes and misunderstandings in an all-too-plausible but entertaining thriller.""""--Booklist American and Russian astronauts are trapped together in the International Space Station as war breaks out in Ukraine and life support functions begin to fail in this action-packed debut technothriller that ripples with the tension and danger of Solaris and Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary. When an ammonia leak threatens the astronauts on the International Space Station, NASA directs Lucy Poplasky, one of the ISS's first female commanders, to investigate the cause. Russia has just invaded Ukraine and tensions are running high--could the leak be a brazen act of sabotage? The Russian cosmonauts aboard deny tampering with the ship's systems and insist on the issue stems from the American side. As levels of the poisonous gas rise, Lucy's investigation shatters trust between the Russian and Western crews, exposing deep fissures in the partnership thousands of miles below. Intense and unrelenting, Inner Space questions what truly draws us to the stars: the urge to explore the unknown, selfish ambition, or an instinct to run away from the entrenched troubles on Earth? Translated from the Polish by Kasia Beresford

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Jakub Szamalek is Narrative Director at Rebel Wolves game studio. Born in Poland in 1986, he studied in the UK, at Oxford and then Cambridge, where he was a Cambridge Gates Scholar. He is an author and the writer behind the international video game bestsellers, including The Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, and The Blood of Dawnwalker. He lives in Nova Scotia, Canada, with his family. He wrote the award-winning The Hidden Web series of thrillers, which has been adapted into a major motion picture by Monolith Films, and his crime novels have been awarded the Best Polish Crime Novel and Zloty Pocisk prizes. Jakub has been named among Eastern and Central Europe's Young Leaders by the Res Publica Foundation. Kasia Beresford is a Polish-to-English translator and interpreter. She was brought up in a Polish family in London and studied Modern Languages (French, Russian, and Polish) at Cambridge University. Following a London-based career in business, she moved to Manchester and returned to her roots working with languages. She has translated Impressions of America (1922 edition) by Konstanty Buszczyński, and The Evil Neighbour, the memoirs of Antoni Szymański, Poland's military attaché in Berlin the 1930s. She has also translated numerous book extracts, both fiction and non-fiction, for example for the Polish Book Institute's New Books from Poland catalogue. Ongoing projects include translating Inner Space, a techno-thriller set on the International Space Station due to be published in 2025 by HarperVia. Sophie Amoss is a voice talent and Earphones Award-winning narrator.

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