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Yume Kitasei

Yume Kitasei

Author Biography & Works

Yume Kitasei is a speculative fiction author and public servant in New York City government, currently serving as the commissioner of the New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) for the Mamdani administration. Her books include The Deep Sky, The Stardust Grail, and Saltcrop, with a fourth, Envoy, expected in 2027.

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Books by Yume Kitasei

Saltcrop

Saltcrop

In a climate-damaged future of drowned coasts and pirate-held seas, sisters Skipper and Carmen cross the water to find Nora, the eldest, who left home a decade earlier to look...

The Stardust Grail

The Stardust Grail

Maya, a retired art thief who once returned looted artefacts to their home worlds, is asked by an old friend for one last job: to find the Stardust Grail, which...

The Deep Sky

The Deep Sky

Eighty graduates of an elite programme are aboard the Phoenix, sent to start a new generation in deep space. When a bomb kills three crew and pushes the ship off...

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