Patricia Ward was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, moving to the United States when she was eighteen. She is the author of the The Bullet Collection, an award-winning novel about two sisters growing up in wartime Beirut. Ward is also a book artist specializing in miniature books and dioramas. She lives with her family near Boston, Massachusetts.
ONE OF AMAZON’S 20 BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY BOOKS OF
2016
A gut-punching novel, consistently taut and bleak. Readers will
feel Lucy hanging on by her fingernails just beneath the human
world and bloodied by every hard climb upward.”
Publishers Weekly
A fiercely original premise carried to a logical and
thought-provoking conclusion. . . . this unforgettable novel is
sure to haunt readers long after they’ve turned the last page.
Highly recommended.”
SF Signal
Ward's prose is expressive and often unexpectedly beautiful. .
.High-caliber, often engrossing literary sci-fi.”
Kirkus Reviews
A masterly written slowburner... Skinner Luce is a dark and
beautiful dystopian hallucination that will keep you simultaneously
cringing and wanting more. Lucy glows like an ember of rage and
strength in search of personal liberation and redemption.”
Seb Doubinsky, author of Song of Synth and Goodbye Babylon
"Skinner Luce paints a heroine who's more human than most in her
fears and ambitions and who will grab your heart. This book will
haunt you long after you put it down."
Omnivoracious, "The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of
January"
A darkly clever concept with an oppressive atmosphere that never
lets up.”
Kit Whitfield, author of Benighted and In Great Waters
ONE OF AMAZON’S 20 BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY BOOKS OF
2016
A gut-punching novel, consistently taut and bleak. Readers will
feel Lucy hanging on by her fingernails just beneath the human
world and bloodied by every hard climb upward.”
Publishers Weekly
A fiercely original premise carried to a logical and
thought-provoking conclusion. . . . this unforgettable novel is
sure to haunt readers long after they’ve turned the last page.
Highly recommended.”
SF Signal
Ward's prose is expressive and often unexpectedly beautiful. .
.High-caliber, often engrossing literary sci-fi.”
Kirkus Reviews
A masterly written slowburner... Skinner Luce is a dark and
beautiful dystopian hallucination that will keep you simultaneously
cringing and wanting more. Lucy glows like an ember of rage and
strength in search of personal liberation and redemption.”
Seb Doubinsky, author of Song of Synth and Goodbye Babylon
"Skinner Luce paints a heroine who's more human than most in her
fears and ambitions and who will grab your heart. This book will
haunt you long after you put it down."
Omnivoracious, "The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of
January"
A darkly clever concept with an oppressive atmosphere that never
lets up.”
Kit Whitfield, author of Benighted and In Great Waters
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