Flowers for the Sea

A Library Journal Editor's Pick!

Flowers for the Sea is a dark, dazzling debut novella that reads like Rosemary's Baby by way of Octavia E. Butler

We are a people who do not forget.

Survivors from a flooded kingdom struggle alone on an ark. Resources are scant, and ravenous beasts circle. Their fangs are sharp.

Among the refugees is Iraxi: ostracized, despised, and a commoner who refused a prince, she's pregnant with a child that might be more than human. Her fate may be darker and more powerful than she can imagine.

Zin E. Rocklyn's extraordinary debut is a lush, gothic fantasy about the prices we pay and the vengeance we seek.

Author: Zin E. Rocklyn
Publisher: Tordotcom
Published: 10/19/2021
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.13lbs
Size: 7.80h x 4.96w x 0.55d
ISBN13: 9781250804037
ISBN10: 1250804035
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Fantasy | Action & Adventure
- Fiction | African American & Black | General
- Fiction | Fantasy | Epic

About the Author
Zin E. Rocklyn is a contributor to Bram Stoker-nominated and This is Horror Award-winning Nox Pareidolia, Kaiju Rising II: Reign of Monsters, Brigands: A Blackguards Anthology, and Forever Vacancy anthologies and Weird Luck Tales No. 7 zine. Their story Summer Skin in the Bram Stoker-nominated anthology Sycorax's Daughters received an honorable mention for Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year, Volume Ten. Zin contributed the nonfiction essay "My Genre Makes a Monster of Me" to Uncanny Magazine's Hugo Award-winning Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction. Their short story The Night Sun and flash fiction teatime were published on Tor.com. Flowers for the Sea is their debut novella. Zin is a 2017 VONA and 2018 Viable Paradise graduate as well as a 2022 Clarion West candidate.