Light From Uncommon Stars was nominated for the 2022 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, 2022 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, and 2022 Hugo Award for Best Novel. The two strike up a tenuous flirtation, but their budding romance is imperiled by Satomi's deal with the demon and Tran's tumultuous galactic past. She finds that student in Katrina Nguyen, a young transgender prodigy with little formal training.Īs Satomi teaches Nguyen, she also meets Lan Tran, a starship captain and refugee disguised as a doughnut shop owner, who has brought her family to Earth to escape war and a deadly plague. Satomi has delivered six souls already, and with a year left on her contract, she needs one more student. To do this, she coaches ambitious violin students, then offers them fame and renown in exchange for their souls. Years ago, she struck a deal with a demon that she would deliver seven souls to hell. Shizuka Satomi is the world's best violin teacher, known for coaching virtuosos who meet tragic ends. It was nominated for a 2022 Hugo Award for Best Novel and won the 2021 Otherwise Award Plot
Light From Uncommon Stars is a science fiction and fantasy novel by American author and poet Ryka Aoki.
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