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Learn moreAfter her rollicking standalone Dual Memory, Sue Burke returns to her Semiosis series and the world of Pax in Usurpation, which combines the thrill of M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening with the eco-empowerment of VanderMeer’s Dead Astronauts.
Stevland, the dominant sentient lifeform of Pax, has clandestinely sent some of its progeny to Earth. To explore, to spread, to report back.
Since their germination, Earth has been a powder keg. Human rebellion, robot uprisings, and global pandemics have created chaos, distrust, and deaths.
As more and more conflicts break out across Earth, Stevland's children work in the background, in an attempt to control human behavior and perhaps, bring peace to the planet. Stevland took control of Pax. Earth shouldn’t be too difficult…
Sue Burke spent many years working as a reporter and editor for a variety of newspapers and magazines before writing her critically acclaimed novel Semiosis. A Clarion workshop alumnus, she has published more than thirty short stories in addition to working extensively as a literary translator. She lives in Chicago.
Caitlin Davies is an actress, a director, and an award-winning audiobook narrator who has been nominated for multiple Voice Arts Awards. Her work has received starred Booklist reviews and Parents' Choice Awards and has appeared on YALSA's Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults list. A resident of New York City, she received her bachelor's degree in English from Vassar College and her master's in acting from Brown University.
Daniel Thomas May is a native of Atlanta, but is anything but a Southern boy. For 15 years May focused his work on stage, both in Atlanta and across the country, but in the past 2 years May has turned his talent to the screen, with roles on The Vampire Diaries, Drop Dead Diva and a number of commercials and independent film projects.