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Aurealis Award
Shortlisted for Best Young Adult Short Fiction
Washington Science
Fiction Association Small Press Award Shortlisted
for Short Fiction
Honourable Mention
on the Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction List,
Twelfth Planet Press
Morning Star
Science Fiction
When humanity is decimated by an enigmatic,
chronogenetic pathology, cargo pilot Ven is
entrusted with the last human in the universe – a
boy called Solomon. Chasing rumours of other
survivors, Ven and Solomon begin an impossible
journey across the constellations, searching for
answers, and a new home.
"‘Morning Star’ is
by turns funny, poignant and breathtaking: a
perfect, original story about humanity, agency, the
end of the world and what comes after."
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A Dribble of Ink
"This is a science
fiction tale that hearkens back to some of the older
filled-with-wonder science fiction. It does what
science fiction can do best: turns its lens onto
humanity itself."
- Aurealis Awards
Judges Report
"Two robots and a boy
on a ship, searching for any other sign of human
life should not be as hauntingly, achingly beautiful
as Mok has made it. While the writing is simple and
understated, the story is raw and painful yet almost
lovingly gentle."
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Joelene Pynnonen, Marianne de Pierres blog
"I adored this tale
of the last of humanity sent out into space to
hopefully reach the explorers on the other side of
the galaxy. The ending of this almost novella-length
story was tremendously satisfying and I’d definitely
love to read more by this author."
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A Fantastical Librarian
First published in One Small Step: An Anthology of Discoveries (FableCroft Publishing).
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