2019 PRISM Winner for Science Fiction! “The answer is no, Lyra,” my mother utters her favorite—I swear—phrase. No means I have to travel with them to another planet—again. No means leaving all my friends fifty years in the past. Thanks, Einstein. Seventeen-year-old Lyra Daniels can’t truly blame Einstein or her parents for their impending move across the Milky Way Galaxy. It’s all due to the invention of the Q-net, which made traveling the vast distances in space possible—with one big caveat: the time dilation. But that never stopped Lyra's ancestors from exploring the Milky Way, searching for resources and exoplanets to colonize. What they didn’t expect to find is life-sized terracotta Warriors buried on twenty-one different exoplanets.... Make that twenty-two. As the Galaxy’s leading experts on the Warriors, Lyra's parents are thrilled by the new discovery, sending them—and her—fifty years into the future. Her social life in ruins, she fills her lonely days by illegally worming into the Q-net. The only person close to her age is the annoyingly irresistible security officer who threatens to throw her into the brig. After the planet they just left goes silent—meaning no communications from them at all—security has bigger problems to deal with than Lyra, especially when vital data files go missing. But that's just the beginning, because they’re not as alone as they thought on their new planet... and suddenly time isn't the only thing working against them. "I LOVED this book [ Navigating the Stars ]! Normally sci-fi isn't my first choice of tea, but I got sucked into this one really quickly. Snyder foreshadows things SO well, and I was routing for just about every character I met...I think this is Snyder's most clever book to date and I can't wait to continue the series!" -Charlie N. Holmberg, best selling author of the Numina Series "Smart, witty and full of heart, Navigating the Stars had me hooked from the very first page!" - Lynette Noni, bestselling author of Whisper & The Medoran Chronicles "Chock full of action, humor, danger, and emotion, this phenomenal series is unputdownable from start to finish!" Amanda Bouchet, USA Today bestselling author of The Kingmaker Chronicles. "What do you get when you throw some space travel, network hacking, ancient archaeology, and page-turning danger into a fantastic genre-blender and switch it on high? Sentinels of the Galaxy series of course!" - @checked.in.ya Meteorologist turned novelist, Maria V. Snyder's been writing since shewas tired of writing air pollution reports and needed something creative to do. Well over a dozen published novels and numerous short stories later, Maria's learned athing or three about writing. She's been on the New York Times bestseller list, won over a half-dozen awards, andhas earned her MA degree in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill Universitywhere she's been happily sharing her knowledge with the current crop of MFAstudents. When she's not writing, she's either playing volleyball, traveling, takingpictures, or zonked out on the couch due to all of the above.