SPACE TRUCKER JESS launches today!
Today is the release of my novel SPACE TRUCKER JESS
It’s hard to believe that the character that emerged fully formed from my head onto the page will be out in the world today! Space Trucker Jess launches today, July 1st.
Who is Jess, you ask? Well…
Jessian Urania Darger is a kick-ass take-no-shït foul-mouthed too-smart-for-her-own-good sixteen-year-old girl with a chip on her shoulder. She and her daddy have been grifting their way across the verse for years. But when her daddy gets arrested for running crypto-credit scams, Jess is forced to get a job on Chadeisson Station as a roachrunner, fixing starships to survive.
She dreams of a better life, away from her corrupt daddy, so she's been saving up to buy a Spark Megahauler, a huge cargo ship, ever since she saw one in a printer catalog. She wants to run the long hauls, to sail alone into the black and never look back.
But when her daddy goes missing from prison, Jess realizes she just can't let him go, and she makes it her life's mission to find out where he's gone. In an odyssey that takes her across the galaxy, Jess encounters vanished planets, strange societies, inscrutable alien gods, and mind-bending secrets that may change humanity's path forever.
Think Natasha Lyonne narrating 2001: A Space Odyssey.
What have others said about Space Trucker Jess?
“Action-packed … a page-turning adventure set in an inventive universe.”
— Publishers Weekly
”Space Opera in the grand style, with starships, alien gods, and a heroine in way over her head. The tension keeps ratcheting up page by page, until the whole universe is at stake.”
— Dennis E. Taylor, author of Heaven's River
“Wild, philosophical, inventive and totally unpredictable.”
— Carlos Hernandez, author of Sal & Gabi Break the Universe
“Crunchy, satisfyingly articulated human diaspora … a stellar ride with a tough and determined young hero.”
— Jessica Reisman, author of Substrate Phantoms
“Tripping balls… Matthew Kressel’s slangy prose sucks you in like a black hole, and like a black hole, is singular in the ‘verse.”
— C. S. E. Cooney, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Saint Death’s Daughter
“Plumbers will love this!”
—Louie the plumber.
On sale today at your favorite bookstore!
Are you in the New York City area? Join me for a Space Trucker Jess launch party, Saturday, July 12th, 2pm at the Hidden Door, 314 Dean Street, Brooklyn. RSVP here.