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Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson is the Sunday Times Bestselling author of The Order of Legends trilogy. Inaugural winner of Future Worlds Prize Award in 2020, her debut novel, The Principle of Moments, was published in January 2024 , by Gollancz. She holds a BA in English Literature and Classical Studies from the University of Exeter, where she enjoyed writing essays on Disney villains and reading Greek lyric poetry in the same day. As an author of Nigerian, Jamaican, and British-Australian heritage, her work primarily focuses on people who live at the intersection of identities, whether that’s here on Earth, or in far away galaxies of her own creation.
Esmie is represented by Catherine Cho at Paper Literary.
“I’ve not read anything quite like Jikiemi-Pearson’s award-winning debut. At once a meticulous space opera… and a century spanning love story, it heralds a new voice in the genre, and what may be a transformative series for the writer.”
“A sprawling space-opera fantasy… feels like a mashup of Star Wars and Dr Who. There are ancient prophecies, youthful heroes fighting an evil galactic empire, hair’s-breadth escapes and alien races, along with magic and time travel.”
“An assured, mature piece of work, every page nonetheless shines with the vigour and passion of youth. And the foregrounding of black and LGBT characters adds further freshness.”
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