She’s back! Mira Grant’s first novel in seven years will be hitting your local bookstores next May! Overgrowth, an end-of-the-world alien invasion tale, is the first of two new books by Seanan McGuire writing as Mira Grant.
We’re enormous fans of Seanan in all her guises here at Tor Publishing Group, whether it’s the relative whimsy of Toby Daye, InCryptid, and Wayward Children, or the childhood delights of the Up and Under books. So, when we were offered the opportunity to bring Seanan’s darker side to Nightfire, how could we say no?
Annihilation meets Day of the Triffids in this full-on body horror/alien invasion apocalypse.
This is just a story. It can’t hurt you anymore.Since she was three years old, Anastasia Miller has been telling anyone who would listen that she’s an alien disguised as a human being, and that the armada that left her on Earth is coming for her. Since she was three years old, no one has believed her.
Now, with an alien signal from the stars being broadcast around the world, humanity is finally starting to realize that it’s already been warned, and it may be too late. The invasion is coming, Stasia’s biological family is on the way to bring her home, and very few family reunions are willing to cross the gulf of space for just one misplaced child.
What happens when you know what’s coming, and just refuse to listen?
Executive Editor Lee Harris said:
“I’ve been working with Seanan since 2016, and Overgrowth marks my twentieth book with her (plus a number of short stories). That’s a hell of a milestone. The publication of Overgrowth also means I’ve now worked with her in all her guises: as Seanan, as A. Deborah Baker, and now as Mira Grant. I’m calling House! in Seanan Bingo!
“Overgrowth is, as you will have come to expect, a great book. No-one writes the end of the world quite like Mira Grant, and if we’re going to be annihilated by a plant-based alien species, we couldn’t wish for a better guide than Anastasia Miller. She’s much nicer than Audrey II, though her fellow invaders aren’t!”
Author Seanan McGuire added:
“I grew up on horror. Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Little Shop of Horrors were my bedtime stories, and I was reading John Wyndham and Clive Barker well before I should have been. It wasn’t really a surprise to anyone when Mira Grant appeared: an alter ego who could filter my horror stories through a slightly different lens than the whimsical fantasies I released under my own name. After zombies and pandemics both man-made and unintentional, Deep Ones and magical girls, it was time for Mira to return to our mutual roots—no pun intended—and end the world in chloroform and thorns.
“I am ecstatic to have a new Mira Grant novel entering the world, and to be able to spend that kind of dedicated time on the crueler side of my fiction. It’s a pleasure and a privilege to write as Mira Grant, and I can’t wait for you to meet Stasia and her friends.
“The cat, whose name is Seymour, does not die.”
Overgrowth will be published by Nightfire in May 2025, with another Mira Grant book to follow in 2027. Tor Publishing Group’s Lee Harris negotiated world English rights with agent Diana Fox of Fox Literary.
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