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"Aimee Ogden is an American werewolf in the Netherlands. Her debut novella, Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters, was a 2021 Nebula Finalist, and her short story ""A Flower Cannot Love the Hand"" was a finalist for the Eugie Foster Memorial Award. Her short fiction has appeared in publications such as Lightspeed, Fantasy Magazine, Analog, Clarkesworld, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. She's also the co-editor of Translunar Travelers Lounge, a magazine of fun and optimistic speculative fiction. Emergent Properties is her third novella."
"Praise for Emergent Properties ""A thoroughly delightful read, featuring complex and chewy family dynamics and a snarky AI sleuth. If you're missing your Murderbot fix, Emergent Properties is a worthy successor.""--Sarah Pinsker, Nebula Award-winning author of A Song for a New Day ""Pin-sharp, effortlessly brilliant, and endlessly engaging, Emergent Properties manages the impossible task of satisfying readers on the hunt for hard sci-fi, twisty mysteries, and deep relationships. It truly does it all. And Scorn zirself is one of the most absorbing characters I've ever encountered in science fiction.""--Premee Mohamed, Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author of And What Can We Offer You Tonight ""Aimee Ogden and Scorn take us on a mind-expanding journey that explores the limits of intelligence and emotion. A compassionate, funny, relentless search for answers that raises many deep, beautiful questions.""--Samit Basu, author of The City Inside ""A twisty mystery that doubles as a potent, surprising, and necessary exploration of the many issues that arise from AI's ever-increasing presence in the world.""--Publishers Weekly, starred review ""A taut and compelling mystery with a surprising yet satisfying conclusion. SF fans will appreciate this intriguing, tightly plotted novella.""--Kirkus Praise for Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters ""Absolutely gorgeous and deeply moving, this novella is familiar and strange at the same time, like a new interpretation of a beloved recipe.""--Seanan McGuire ""A taut, heartfelt intergalactic fairy tale, with cosmic and personal vision.""--Max Gladstone ""Familiar and fresh, intimate and expansive -- a fairy tale flung into the future.""--Kerstin Hall ""Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters is a short page-turner that feels epic in its world-building craft and the depth of its protagonists. At once a fairy-tale retelling and a lyrical space opera, it straddles many genres to tell one nostalgic yet utterly new story.""--Booklist ""Poetic, emotional prose and a science fiction setting give an original twist to an old fairy tale. Ogden [...] takes ""The Little Mermaid"" to outer space and imagines the desires beyond love and land. This novella will tug at the heart of every reader.""--Library Journal ""This novella will leave readers eager for more from Ogden.""--Shelf Awareness"
