Hell's Heart

Name: Hell's Heart
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ISBN: 9781035060511

Alexis Hall

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Tor U.K.
17 March 2026

Space opera; Romance; Science Fiction; LGBT Romance

Hell's Heart is a queer speculative fiction retelling of Herman Melville's classic story.

Here, a small party go hunting for a giant space creature - and experience love and loss along the way.

Earth is a ruin, and the scattered remnants of humanity scavenge what they can from the stars. This under the watchful auspices of a grab-bag of collectives, corporations, and churches. These are all that remains of what we once called society. Having long exhausted any conventional sources of energy, life in the solar system is now sustained by a volatile, hallucinogenic substance - this harvested from the brains of vast cetacean-like Leviathans that swim the atmospheric currents of Jupiter.

Finding herself with no money and little to occupy her groundside, the narrator (""I"") takes a commission aboard the hunter-barque Pequod as it sets out in pursuit of these Leviathans. However, once aboard, she finds herself pulled inexorably into the orbit of the barque's captain, a charismatic but fanatically driven woman who the narrator names only as 'A'. As the Pequod plunges ever deeper into the turbulent, monster-haunted atmosphere of the gas giant, the narrator begins to lose herself in the eerie world of Leviathan-hunting and the captain's increasingly insistent delusions. The only thing that might keep her grounded is the bond she develops with Q, a woman from the wreck of Old Earth, whose skin is marked with holographic light and who remembers things others have lost.

A grand adventure is about to begin - one that will be strange, extraordinary and utterly unforgettable.

By: Alexis Hall
Imprint: Tor U.K.
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm,
ISBN: 9781035060511
ISBN 10: 1035060515
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 17 March 2026
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Alexis Hall (whatever pronouns - sic) is the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material and many other books. Their work thus far ranges across mystery, urban fantasy, historical romance, rom-coms, and high-heat contemporary romance. He lives in the south of England.

Reviews for Hell's Heart

Wow -- John Scalzi, author of When The Moon Hits Your Eye Fey, funny, and extremely metal -- Malka Older, author of The Mimicking of Known Successes Hall’s best, weirdest, and most snarkily delightful book yet -- Ruthanna Emrys, author of A Half-Built Garden Hell's Heart is a startling, ferocious love letter to all the rawest emotions the human body can produce. Hall is a master of voice and scale, and this relentlessly gripping ode to the splendors and miseries of existence is no exception. I can't think of anyone else who could successfully pull off Moby Dick meets Treasure Planet by way of Fleabag - an unbelievable accomplishment from a tremendous author -- Sarah Gailey, USA Today bestselling author of Spread Me and Just Like Home A towering love song to both Melville and Joan D. Vinge, a marvelous, intricate, heart-shattering romp -- Lilith Saintcrow, author of Strange Angels