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Critical Acclaim for Kameron Hurley’s Bel Dame Apocrypha

“Hurley’s world-building is phenomenal… (she) smoothly handles tricky themes such as race, class, religion, and gender without sacrificing action.”

—Publishers Weekly

“…where some writers might focus on high-tech weapons or explosive battles in space, Hurley brings things down to a personal level, recalling more the toughminded realism of Chris Moriarty’s Spin State…”

—New York Review of Science Fiction

“God’s War was part slow burn, part explosive action… in the end the novel was utterly compelling.”

—Tor.com

“God’s War is one of the most thought-provoking debuts I’ve read so far this year.”

—Locus Magazine

“Hurley indeed creates in her lead character a thoroughly unlikeable, but wholly independent, female Conan. Actually, that’s wrong: Nyxnissa would quite clearly kick Conan’s ass. In her own words, ‘Women can fight as well as fuck, you know’ (p. 64). Coarse and inelegant, but bold and pungent: Nyx’s retort might be this punchy, refreshing, and imperfect novel’s grating, gutsy epigram. Just what the genre ordered.”

—Strange Horizons Magazine

“An aggressively dark, highly original SF-fantasy novel with tight, cutting prose and some of the most inventive world-building I’ve seen in a while.”

—Fantasy Literature.com

“God’s War is a clever reinterpretation of the war novel. Hurley takes on issues of gender roles, violence, and religion and does it all with a deft hand.”

—Staffer’s Musings

“God’s War is a violent tale set against the backdrop of a centuries-old holy war. But beyond all the blood and violence, it’s a beautifully crafted work of art that keeps astonishing you when you least expect it.”

—Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist

“Hurley belongs in the new class of Sci-Fi authors we’ve been waiting for to invigorate the genre along the sides of Rajaniemi, Bacigalupi, and Yu…”

—The Mad Hatter’s Bookshelf & Book Review

“This beautifully crafted novel is truly a work of art—bloody, brutal, bug-filled art.”

—The Ranting Dragon

“Are you frustrated with Mary Sue heroines? Well, here comes God’s War to rock your face off… If you like rough, battle-scarred women who know how to regulate, you’re going to love Nyx… She makes Han Solo look like a boy scout.”

—i09.com

“God’s War is a fine piece of writing, and not one that its readers will easily forget.”

—Escape Pod

“The ostensibly ground-breaking, jaw-dropping ultra-progressive newness of God’s War is remarkable not because it pushes the boundaries of science fiction, but because it is a novel in which those boundaries are already gone.”

—Pornokitsch

“If you want a down-and-dirty book that takes a hard look at the consequences of religious intolerance and the idea of what ‘feminine’ is, read God’s War.”

—SFF Divas