Pills and Starships

Author Lydia Millet

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Millet’s first YA novel explores a world devastated by global warming, and two teenagers determined to survive against all odds.

—Winner of the 2015 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People

—Named a 2015 Green Earth Honor Book by the Nature Generation

—Named a Best Book of 2014 by Teaching for Change

“A deep read, but fast; it lingers in your mind long after it’s been read.” —New York Journal of Books

“I’m the first to admit that dystopia isn’t usually for me, but this one got right under my skin.” —The School Librarian

Part of Akashic’s Black Sheep YA imprint.

In this richly imagined dystopic future brought by global warming, seventeen-year-old Nat and her hacker brother Sam have come by ship to the Big Island of…

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June 17, 2014

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Lydia Millet is the author of A Children’s Bible, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top Ten book of the Year. Her first work of short fiction, Love in Infant Monkeys, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2010; her second, Fight No More (2018), won an American Academy of Arts and Sciences short fiction award. Atavists is her third work of short fiction. She lives outside Tucson, Arizona.