Read an Excerpt From R.S.A. Garcia&#8217;s <i>The Nightward</i>

R.S.A. Garcia is a Nebula Award winning writer of speculative fiction. She is also the winner of the MIFRE Media Award, and a Sturgeon, Locus and Ignyte Award finalist. Her Amazon Bestselling science fiction mystery, Lex Talionis, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and the Silver Medal for Best Scifi/Fantasy/Horror Ebook from the Independent Publishers Awards (2015). She has published short fiction in venues such as Clarkesworld Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, Escape Pod, Strange Horizons and Internazionale Magazine. Her stories have been long-listed for the British Science Fiction Awards, translated into several languages, and included in a number of anthologies, including the critically acclaimed The Best of World SF, The Best Science Fiction of the Year, and The Apex Book of World SF. Her scifantasy duology, beginning with The Nightward, is forthcoming from Harper Voyager in October, 2024. She lives in Trinidad and Tobago with an extended family and too many cats.