Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, Ignyte, British Fantasy, and Crawford awards. She is an Assistant Editor at the short fiction audio venue Escape Pod and the author of the Beneath the Rising series of novels as well as several novellas. Her short fiction has appeared in many venues.
“I plunged into The Siege of Burning Grass knowing nothing except
that Premee Mohamed wrote it. What more did I need? And yet, it
astonished me. A colossal work of fiction and philosophy, Siege is
something like Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind meets The Things
They Carried by way of The Brothers Karamazov. I loved Alefret,
Mohamed’s monstrous man of peace, instantly and wholly. I feared
for him, I suffered with him, I raged alongside him, all against a
backdrop of gorgeous and lonely immensity. I wanted nothing for
days but to be reading this book.” —C. S. E. Cooney, World Fantasy
Award-winning author of Saint Death’s Daughter
“Dark, complex and powerful” —Claire North, author of Notes from
the Burning Age
“Premee Mohamed is a fantastic new voice in speculative fiction,
one of the most innovative, original, and exciting writers of
recent years, full of fresh perspectives, scintillating narratives,
and insightful comments on our world today.” —Ada Palmer, author of
Too Like the Lightning
“Elegiac, elegant, Mohamed is merciless in how she holds the world
to task for its cruelties and effortless in how she presents its
horrors. This is a book with its heart on its sleeve, but also one
that tells of how many have been left in the ground.” —Cassandra
Khaw, USA Today best-selling author of Nothing But Blackened
Teeth
“Imagine The Good Soldier Švejk and George Smiley sitting down with
a large bottle of absinthe and the scene being painted by
Hieronymus Bosch. Or, more practically, you could read The Siege of
Burning Grass and get a very similar effect. Why would you deny
yourself an experience like that?” —Jonathan L. Howard, author of
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
“An engrossing, unflinching story. Premee's world of floating
cities, medicinal wasps, and nations at war is both richly imagined
and heartrending.” —Darcie Little Badger, author of Elatsoe
“This book has urgent things to say about the world at war, and now
more than ever, you need to hear them.” —Vajra Chandrasekera,
author of the Crawford, Nebula and Locus Award-winning The Saint of
Bright Doors
“Haunting and insightful... This is not for the faint of heart.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Siege and Mohamed both seem like ones to watch.” —Kajal
Magazine
“Premee Mohamed has quickly become one of my auto-buy authors.”
—Book Riot
“Superb.” —Locus
“A raging treatise, fascinating fantasy, and bittersweet character
study; the fact that it’s delivered in beautiful prose is truly the
cherry on top.” —Reactor
“A feat of worldbuilding, moral complexity, and taut, precisely
paced storytelling. After this, I’m ready to hunt down everything
else Mohamed has ever written.” —Esquire
“Gritty yet poetic.” —New Scientist
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