One Message Remains

Praise for One Message Remains

Nebula award winner Mohamed delivers more science-infused, dystopian speculative fiction in this hard-hitting collection of four interlinked stories.

— Publishers Weekly

An established master of short fiction, Mohamed brings her typical clarity and assurance to a new–but desperately familiar–world haunted by violence, empire, ghosts, and devils. These are simply some of the most human and humane stories I’ve ever read.

— Alix E. Harrow, Hugo-Award Winner and New York Times Bestselling author

Premee Mohamed is one of speculative fiction’s greatest authors, and this collection provided further proof.

— Chuck Wendig

Premee Mohamed is one of Canada’s most exciting thinkers and writers of speculative fiction. Her stories bravely go where few dare to, each employing a deftness of language and surety of form that offers a fresh experience each time. One Message Remains and the stories within are no exception, each tale different from the other, yet all very much quintessential Premee stories. Readers of her works, long and short both, will find much to love here.

— Suyi Davies Okungbowa, author of Son of the Storm and Lost Ark Dreaming

Premee Mohamed sends her readers once more unto the breach with her stunning stories and I for one am sure to follow wherever she leads the charge. The battlefield has never been more breathtaking, where the horrors of war go beyond the borders of our own world, explored with such probing, insightful prose.

— Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

Nobody writes like Premee Mohamed, with justice on one shoulder and compassion on the other, and a pen that dances over the page. In One Message Remains, she draws different voices and perspectives to the fore like a conductor of a small and beautifully crafted symphony, in a minor key.

— Kate Heartfield, Aurora Award winner and author of The Tapestry of Time

Mohamed has given us an incisive collection that unflinchingly dissects the brutal clockwork mechanism behind colonialism and the very real, flesh and blood people who are caught within its cogs. Beautifully penned, insightful and honest in it’s portrayal of resistance, this is exactly the brave kind of anticolonial work we need now more than ever.

— Suzan Palumbo author of Countess and Skin Thief Stories

Gallows creak, the perished whisper, and death herself watches from the audience. On stages, on the run, and in graves, people try to find ways of resisting the oppression that has controlled them for so long. A beautiful collection of stories with prose that sings until your very bones resonate with their melody.

— Steve Toase, author of Dirt Upon My Skin and To Drown in Dark Water

Premee Mohamed’s One Message Remains is a dark crystal. With prose that shimmers like gemstones, Mohamed presents us with several tales, each richly captivating, each lined with shadows, exquisite world building, and a touch of ever growing sadness, and of course death. This is Mohamed at their absolute best.

— Cynthia Pelayo, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Vanishing Daughters

One Message Remains is a fierce, compact book with a dagger-sharp focus on empire and complicity. These are stories about how war is waged outside of the conventional battle scenes, set instead in the places where the imperial boot grinds down on the human face, in ideology, in bureaucracy, in standardization, and the violent excision of anything that doesn’t fit.

— Vajra Chandrasekera, author of The Saint of Bright Doors and Rakesfall