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The Sol Majestic is a big-hearted and delightful intergalactic adventure for fans of Becky Chambers and The Good Place.
Kenna, an aspirational teen guru, wanders destitute across the stars as he tries to achieve his parents' ambition to advise the celestial elite.
Everything changes when Kenna wins a free dinner at The Sol Majestic, the galaxy's most renowned restaurant, giving him access to the cosmos's one-percent. His dream is jeopardized, however, when he learns his highly-publicized "free meal" risks putting The Sol Majestic into financial ruin. Kenna and a motley gang of newfound friends - including a teleporting celebrity chef, a trust-fund adrenaline junkie, an inept apprentice, and a brilliant mistress of disguise―must concoct an extravagant scheme to save everything they cherish. In doing so, Kenna may sacrifice his ideals―or learn even greater lessons about wisdom, friendship, and love.
Utterly charming and out of this world, Ferrett Steinmetz's The Sol Majestic will satisfy the appetites of sci-fi aficionados and newcomers alike.
"[A] complex, chaotic, and mystifying coming-of-age story of a young man becoming a lover, an aesthete, and an activist. Steinmetz elevates his story with lush details and vividly rendered characters, crafting a memorable love letter to the nourishment of body and soul." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"The colorful cast of characters feels cartoonish at the beginning, and there are pivotal scenes that are too melodramatic...But as the story progresses, Kenna and his friends gain much-needed depth, and the villain introduced toward the end is all the more terrifying for being true to life." - Kirkus Reviews
"Ferrett's fiction always has something clever and hungry about it, and The Sol Majestic is no exception - if anything it's the logical next step, and his pinnacle so far. Strange, rich, thoughtful, and just plain fun - this is a book to swallow whole." - Cherie Priest, author of Boneshaker
"Dizzying, beautiful worldbuilding with characters that make you ache. Damn this book is good." - Mur Lafferty, author of Six Wakes
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Ferrett Steinmetz is a graduate of both the Clarion Writers' Workshop and Viable Paradise, and was nominated for the Nebula Award in 2012, for his novelette Sauerkraut Station. He is the author of the 'Mancer trilogy, The Uploaded, and he has written for Asimov's Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Shimmer, and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. Ferrett lives in Cleveland with his wife.
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