One doctor who must discover the source of her crew’s madness… or risk succumbing to it herself.
We’re excited to share the cover for We Have Always Been Here, a psychological sci-fi thriller from a debut author Lena Nguyen—publishing July 6th with DAW.
Misanthropic psychologist Dr. Grace Park is placed on the Deucalion, a survey ship headed to an icy planet in an unexplored galaxy. Her purpose is to observe the thirteen human crew members aboard the ship—all specialists in their own fields—as they assess the colonization potential of the planet, Eos. But frictions develop as Park befriends the androids of the ship, preferring their company over the baffling complexity of humans, while the rest of the crew treats them with suspicion and even outright hostility.
Shortly after landing, the crew finds themselves trapped on the ship by a radiation storm, with no means of communication or escape until it passes—and that’s when things begin to fall apart. Park’s patients are falling prey to waking nightmares of helpless, tongueless insanity. The androids are behaving strangely. There are no windows aboard the ship. Paranoia is closing in, and soon Park is forced to confront the fact that nothing—neither her crew, nor their mission, nor the mysterious Eos itself—is as it seems.
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We Have Always Been Here
The daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, Lena Nguyen lives with her partner in the alien desert of Arizona. She received her MFA in fiction from Cornell University, where she also taught courses in English, writing, and zombies. Her science fiction and fantasy have won several accolades, and she was a Writers of the Future finalist. When not writing, Lena enjoys editing and game development. We Have Always Been Here is her debut novel.
Soooo exciting!!
I cant wait to read!!!!!
Excited to read this! :)
Huh. Reminds me of “Dragon in the Sea,” superficially. One more for the list.
Look forward to reading this! I have read samples of her writing style and I have loved it!
Have read many of her writings. Brilliant and creative. Can’t wait to read this one. Best!
It looks amazing! Can’t wait for the release.
I preordered it and I’m so excited! I’ve read some of her other works and she’s an amazing writer!!
So incredibly excited for this book! I’ve read some of Lena’s other works, and she is a masterful writer.
Looks really good, and hope to pick it shortly after it reaches the market. She is writing on an interactive fiction site that I am on, and I love her writing prose and flow.
Ahhhhhh this is amazing! It’s almost here! I’m so excited to read anything of Lena’s, and this is such an awesome accomplishment! I’m so proud of her, and I know that there are wonderful things written in the stars for this amazing author.
I read her writing in a text book which was written by a group of professors and scientists for an assignment in university. What a fantastic story! I can not wait to read her novel. I strongly believe she would be a great author.
Oh, that sounds really intriguing. Ship without windows…is it all an experiment or real?
Definitely a pre-order for me.
And I love the bonus fact, that the doctor’s name has a resemblance to a certain great actress, so I already have an image of her in my mind.
Congratulations Lena, it sounds very intriguing.
I use to work with your dad. I know he has to be very proud of you.