“Unity is an astonishing debut, twisty and startling, demonstrating both the disciplined development of a long-gestated project and the raw, dynamic flashes of an author’s early work. It shows intense interest in the distance between conversation and communion . . . an absorbing, thrilling ride.” ― New York Times “A vivid, fascinating, and utterly believable future world . . . Echoes of Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon or the Netflix series Sense8 .” ― New York Journal of Books Danae is not only herself. She is concealing a connection to a grieving collective inside of her body. But while she labors as a tech servant in the dangerous underwater enclave of Bloom City, her fractured self cannot mend. In a desperate escape, Danae and her lover Naoto hire the enigmatic ex-mercenary Alexei to guide them out of the imploding city. But for Danae to reunify, the three new fugitives will have to flee across the otherworldly beauty of the postapocalyptic Southwest. Meanwhile, Danae's warlord enemy, the Duke, and a strange new foe, the Borrower, already seek them at any price. Evoking the gritty cyberpunk of Mad Max and the fluid idealism of Sense8 , Unity is a spectacular new re-envisioning of humanity. Breakout author Elly Bangs has created an expressive, philosophical, science-fiction thriller that expands upon consciousness itself. Washington Post Best SF, Fantasy, and Horror of 2021 London Times April 2021 Science Fiction Pick 2022 Reader’s Advisory Reading List, shortlist 2021 Locus Recommeded Reading List Aurealis Best Speculative Fiction of 2021 2021 Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards Nominee, Best Debut “ Unity is an astonishing debut, twisty and startling, demonstrating both the disciplined development of a long-gestated project and the raw, dynamic flashes of an author’s early work. It shows intense interest in the distance between conversation and communion . . . an absorbing, thrilling ride.” ― New York Times “Breakneck pacing, non-stop action, and delightfully-damaged characters combine with some of the most intricate and clever worldbuilding I've seen in ages to make this an incredibly memorable debut.” ―Sam J. Miller, author of The Art of Starving “ Unity is a wild firefight of a novel . . . Elly Bangs is a writer of both kaleidoscopic imagination and deep literary empathy, a cyberpunk star in the making.” ―Omar El Akkad, author of American War “Imagine Neuromancer and Lilith's Brood conceived a baby while listening to My Chemical Romance and then that baby was adopted by Ghost in the Shell and Blue Submarine no. 6 . The baby’s name is Unity .” ―Meredith Russo, author of If I Were Your Girl “Chock-full of both big ideas and high-energy action, Bangs’s thrilling debut centers on a mad chase across a dystopian Earth in search of a collective consciousness that could save humanity from itself. Danae works as an often overlooked tech servant to a criminal syndicate that controls an underwater metropolis, but she is secretly a severed piece of a group mind that encompasses hundreds of people. Determined to get back to her larger self, she hires Alexei, a mercenary with a death-wish, to help her escape her employers. With Danae’s lover, Naoto, tagging along, the trio flees the city and heads to what was once Arizona―but they are doggedly pursued by bounty hunters and a shadowy figure from Danae’s past. . . . This gritty, thought-provoking cyberpunk adventure does the genre justice.” ― Publishers Weekly “Elly Bangs has created a vivid, fascinating, and utterly believable future world, and she immerses the reader into it skillfully and seamlessly . . . Echoes of Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon or the Netflix series Sense8 , but this is an entirely original and ambitious creation.” ― New York Journal of Books “ Unity is a gorgeous post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel about relationships and civilisational collapse. It builds slowly, almost randomly, to what I felt to be a satisfying conclusion, showing that even the most hopeless situations can be overcome as long as even one person refuses to believe the future is outside of their control.” ― Aurealis Magazine “ Unity is a killer debut by a thrilling new writer. Trust me, you're all going to be hearing a lot about Elly Bangs and this gleaming and gritty world she’s created. And cyberpunk fans? Put down the game controller and read this now. This is the real stuff.” ―Daryl Gregory, author of Spoonbenders “An intense and enthralling ride that kept me thinking long after I finished the last page.” ― Reviews in a Minute “ Unity manages to be simultaneously exciting and philosophical, a brilliant gut-punch of a novel. I cannot wait to see what Elly Bangs does next.” ―Kij Jonhson, author of At the Mouth of the River of Bees “Delivers on the huge, mind-bending promise made in its first few pages.” ― The Times “The high-powered energy of such nth-gen cyberpunk as Richard Morgan’s Altered Carbon .” ― Locu