AustLit

'Young Wipwai’s tribe has always fought their neighbors, but she’s secretly made friends with one of them, and they plot a future of peace.'

Source: Rocket Stack Rank (http://www.rocketstackrank.com/2020/02/Generation-Gap-Thoraiya-Dyer.html). (Sighted: 15/6/2020)

'When her species learns that a dark-matter star is going to pull their planet away from their sun, Jade comes up with a desperate plan to deflect it.'

Source: Rocket Stack Rank (http://www.rocketstackrank.com/2019/01/A-Civilization-Dreams-of-Absolutely-Thoraiya-Dyer.html). (Sighted: 15/6/2020)

'Courtier, explorer, thief: Leaper is a man of many skills, but none of his talents satisfy the yearning in his heart for the Queen of Airakland, the ruler of a thunder-clashed kingdom.

'Their affair is cut too short, however, when she is murdered. The suspects behind her death include the most powerful in the realm: a political rival, a jealous king, or, perhaps, the god of thunder who oversees them all.

'Distraught, Leaper vows revenge, but his mission will lead him away from his forest home, across the vast floodplains, and to the edges of time and myth.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Great deeds are expected of Imeris.

'Raised by accomplished warriors and skilled healers, and being the sister to a goddess, Imeris always felt pressured to be the best fighter in Understorey. Yet during a mission to capture the body-snatching sorceress Kirrik, Imeris fails disastrously. With death on her conscience and in hiding from her peers, Imeris climbs up to the sun-kissed world of Canopy to learn new ways to defeat Kirrik. What she doesn’t expect is to be recruited in a Hunt for the Ages, against a terrifying divine monster that will take all of her skills to stop.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Charlotte dreams of seeding Europa with life, if only she can find someone to fund it.'

Source: Rocket Stack Rank (http://www.rocketstackrank.com/2016/12/The-Shallowest-Waves-Thoraiya-Dyer-Alvaro-Zinos-Amaro.html). (Sighted: 15/06/2020)

'At the highest level of a giant forest, thirteen kingdoms fit seamlessly together to form the great city of Canopy. Thirteen goddesses and gods rule this realm and are continuously reincarnated into human bodies. Canopy's position in the sun, however, is not without its dark side. The nation's opulence comes from the labor of slaves, and below its fruitful boughs are two other realms: Understorey and Floor, whose deprived citizens yearn for Canopy's splendor. Unar, a determined but destitute young woman, escapes her parents' plot to sell her into slavery by being selected to serve in the Garden under the goddess Audblayin, ruler of growth and fertility. As a Gardener, she wishes to become Audblayin's next Bodyguard while also growing sympathetic towards Canopy's slaves. When Audblayin dies, Unar sees her opportunity for glory — at the risk of descending into the unknown dangers of Understorey to look for a newborn god. In its depths, she discovers new forms of magic, lost family connections, and murmurs of a revolution that could cost Unar her chance ... or grant it by destroying the home she loves.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Nila’s plan to trick her mother and give her the granddaughter she yearns for isn’t exactly simple, but what could possibly go wrong?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Skye works on the moon, trying to translate her name into the propagative crystals used to communicate by Moltorians, a mysterious alien species that look like rocks. On earth, after a series of rebellions and wars, Hugo launches humanity's last space voyage for some time to the moon. He plans to learn what happened to the science expedition they sent to communicate with the aliens - and to his wife, Silya.

When Hugo and Skye meet, they realise they are father and daughter. Skye is revealed to have pituitary gigantism and can only live on the moon, never on Earth. Skye withdraws as Hugo solves the puzzle of what happened to the rest of the expedition: killed by Silya's lover for planning to kill Skye, who was eating all the food, while Silya died years ago of kidney failure.

Skye reappears and asks Hugo to check her math for a spacesuit that will fit her. When it's complete, she puts Hugo in his spaceship and bends the airlock, preventing him from coming back. She prepares to go to meet the Moltorians.

Described by the author as 'a story about building to block your brother’s view because he gave you the smaller piece of the inheritance. But also about looking through time at a place.'

Source: SF Signal (https://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2015/03/interview-thoraiya-dyer-genius-loci-story-grudge/). (Sighted: 15/6/2020)

'Rising sea levels threaten Anguilla, but businessmen can always make a buck. It’s up to an ex-astronaut to save the ordinary people from his half-brother if he can. With the help of an engineer. From the depths of a shaft drilled the full thickness of Earth’s crust.'

Source: Coode Street (Jonathan Strahan's website). (Sighted: 30/4/2018)

'A Hatian girl and a Syrian girl flee their countries but with very different results.'

Source: Rocket Stack Rank (http://www.rocketstackrank.com/2016/12/The-Rock-in-the-Water-Thoraiya-Dyer.html). (Sighted: 15/06/2020)