Starbright
Sci-fi
Jitterbug by Gareth L. Powell (Starbright February 2026 Exclusive)
£24.00
About the product
In this twisty and action-packed adventure from the BSFA award-winning author of Descendant Machine and Future’s Edge, a crew of bounty hunters find themselves ensnared in a conspiracy on the very fringes of the devastated solar system. Perfect for fans of James S. A. Corey and Adrian Tchaikovsky.
“On Earth, they depicted justice as blindfolded and impartial, but out here on the frontier, she was red in tooth and claw.”
Jupiter and Saturn are gone, and a mysterious force has built a huge habitable sphere from their ashes. When criminals try to lose themselves on this new frontier, bounty hunters like Copernicus Brown and the crew of his sentient ship Jitterbug get paid to hunt them down.
But when Brown rescues Amber Roth, sole survivor of a pirate attack, the Jitterbug and her crew find themselves the target of powerful political factions who want control of the data chip hidden in Roth’s stomach.
And all the while, something vast and ancient creeps towards them from the depths of space…
Our Starbright Exclusive edition is a Royal hardback and features:
- An exclusive redesigned cover (art by @marceldeneuve; design by @_anniearnold)
- Full colour art & foil on the hardback (art and design by @_anniearnold)
- Digitally printed fore-edge (by @_anniearnold); block-sprayed top & bottom edge
- Illustrated endpapers (by @elias.stern_illustrator); different front and back
- Bonus content
- Bound-in author letter
- Hand-signed by the author
- Multiple POVs, Queer and POC characters
- Standalone adult science fiction
Photos by @bookwormgram
'A cracking fast-paced read, full of action and human drama.' -Adrian Tchaikovsky, award-winning author of Children of Time and Alien Clay
'Jitterbug is a haunting, propulsive odyssey across the ruins of our solar system-where justice, grief, and the ghosts of creation itself collide.' -Cynthia Pelayo
'A page-turning adventure for sci-fi fans who don't mind tangled relationships and gruesome fights... Powell's fans will not be disappointed.' -Publishers Weekly
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