How Can You Run When the Stars Are Everywhere? Revealing Sylvain Neuvel's Until the Last of Me

The First Rule is the most important: “Always run, never fight.”

We’re thrilled to reveal the cover of Until the Last of Me, a Take Them to the Stars novel by Sylvain Neuvel. Set a generation after the events of A History of What Comes Next, Until the Last of Me arrives March 2022 with Tordotcom Publishing.

Showing that truth is stranger than fiction, Neuvel weaves a scfi thriller reminiscent of Blake Crouch and Andy Weir, blending a fast moving, darkly satirical look at the 1960s space race with an exploration of the amorality of progress and the nature of violence.

The First Rule is the most important: “Always run, never fight.”

Over 100 generations, Mia’s family has shaped Earth’s history to push humanity to the stars, making brutal, wrenching choices along the way.

And now Mia finds herself about to help launch the first people into space. She can’t take them to the stars, not quite yet. But with her adversary almost upon her, and with the future of the planet at stake it’s becoming clearer that obeying the First Rule is no longer an option.

For the first time since her line’s first generation, Mia will have to choose to stand her ground, knowing that the overwhelming odds mean that she risks not only her bloodline, but also the future of the human race.

A darkly satirical thriller, as seen through the eyes of the women who sacrifice all to make progress possible and the men who are determined to stop them.

Always run, never fight.
Preserve the knowledge.
Survive at all cost.
Take them to the stars.

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Until the Last of Me

Sylvain Neuvel has taught linguistics in India and worked as a software engineer in Montreal. He is also a certified translator, though he wishes he were an astronaut. His girlfriend would have him believe that he has too many toys, so he writes about aliens and giant robots as a blatant excuse to build action figures (for his son, of course). His debut, Sleeping Giants, was described by NPR as “one of the most promising series kickoffs in recent memory.”