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Starbright May 2025

We’re delighted to reveal our Starbright May 2025 box!

Beware - sometimes foreign species will make their way into your garden.

Our May Starbright book is Overgrowth by Mira Grant, a standalone adult science fiction! Since she was young, a woman has been telling everyone she’s an alien. No one believed her until an alien signal comes from the stars. Her family is coming to collect her, but their arrival threatens humanity . . .

Our Starbright Exclusive edition is a Royal hardback and features:

  • An exclusive redesigned cover (art by @gammatrap; design by @chattynora)
  • Full colour art and foil on the hardback (by @ gammatrap)
  • Digitally printed edges (by @chattynora)
  • Illustrated endpapers (by Jana Heidersdorf); different front and back
  • Digitally signed by the author

If you like aliens and eco horror, we think you’ll enjoy this one!

The book at a glance:

  • Standalone adult science fiction
  • Featuring: exclusive redesigned cover; full colour and foil on the hardback; digitally printed edges; illustrated endpapers; digitally signed by the author
  • Trans love interest

Content warnings:

  • Anxiety
  • Social isolation
  • Government abuse
  • Paranoia
  • Mental health
  • Death of children
  • Invasion/infiltration 
  • Medical trauma
  • Involuntary medical experimentation
  • Transformation (involuntary)
  • A really big spider
  • Transphobia (there are some mean things said about Graham)
  • Body horror
  • Mass death (the Harvest and the aliens’ previous invasions have connotations of this)
  • Scary things happening to animals
  • There is a cat. The cat is fine.

Open subscription spots will be offered exclusively to our Starbright waitlist. You can join the subscription waitlist here.

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