The Misheard World
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Elize Janview is a soldier, one of the few survivors of an unimaginably terrible weapon, which ended the long détente between the North and the South and plunged them back into all-out war. She enlisted with a dream of finding those responsible, of somehow getting revenge for the deaths of everyone she knew, but was posted to guard the prison at Crag, the fortress of the South, which has never fallen to the enemy.
Janview’s life is transformed when a rough wooden box is delivered to Crag, holding the performer and spy Marius Mondegreen, agent of the North: the Misheard Word, who can read minds, breathe fire, and make objects appear and disappear. Janview is to witness Mondegreen’s interrogation by his captor, the beautiful and cruel Allynx Syld, who promises the end of the war. As recorder – and by degrees participant – in the interrogation, Janview comes to question everything she knew about the war, and the very world she lives in…
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Aliya Whiteley's speculative fiction has been shortlisted for multiple awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke award and a Shirley Jackson award. Her future fantasy travelogue novel, Three Eight One, was published by Solaris in January 2024 and won the British Science Fiction Association award for Best Novel. Her short fiction has appeared in many places, most recently as a 2024 NewCon Press collection on the subject of transport called Drive or be Driven. She lives in Sussex, UK, and blogs regularly about plants, planets, and other strange things at aliyawhiteley.uk.
