Description: Shortlisted for the Lambda Award! "Giant robots stomp around a lush and tactile world of ruined cities and unknowable AI gods, which is all one could ever need." --Tamsyn Muir, New York Times bestselling author of the Locked Tomb series " The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon will drop you headfirst into a dazzling kaleidoscope of weirdness." -- The Washington Post " The Archive Undying is everything you could want in a mecha novel. Emma Mieko Candon is brilliant." --Ann Leckie, Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of Ancillary Justice "Giant robot mechas with godlike powers! ...What, honestly, is cooler than that?" -- The Wall Street Journal "In our age of AI discourse and terrifying robot dogs, it's exciting to see a writer exploring these concepts in a way that's fresh and nuanced." --NPR "Candon pours her/their elaborate setting of weird artifacts, monstrous fragtech, and corrupted AI through an intense and intimate emotional focus to create a vivid journey of recovery and reclamation." -- New York Times bestselling author, Kate Elliott "A riotous and romantic ride of identity, divinity and technology" --Freya Marske, author of Marvellous Light "With the salvage-punk appeal of '70s pulp, and the cozy, rust-hazed apocalyptica of '90s anime, this book is gold, crystal, and crimson splendor with a beating pirate heart." --Jennifer Giesbrecht, author of The Monster of Elendhaven "An intelligent, fiercely queer story of identity, autonomy and giant robots. An imaginative rollercoaster!" --Foz Meadows, author of A Strange and Stubborn Endurance " Spiky, tender, sexy, and strange, The Archive Undying is a narrative labyrinth that surprised me on every page; an unfolding fractal of a science fiction novel." --Lara Elena Donnelly, author of Amberlough and Grace Notes "Candon's fresh, vivid worldbuilding skillfully blends anime staples like giant robots and cigarette-smoking aunties with edgy SFF tropes like dying gods and legendary hybrid beasts....Fans of diverse, queer genre fiction seeking a challenge should take note." -- Publishers Weekly "A satisfyingly solid foundation for a revenge quest among giant mecha and lively cities that settles into an interesting new balance of power." -- Booklist "Will appeal to readers who like their giant robots paired with explorations of emotional intimacy and moving forward after trauma." -- Library Journal

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