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**2025 Small Spec Book Awards Semi-Finalist!**
**An Indie Ink 2024 Finalist!**

There are monsters outside the city walls.

Harvard is small, anxious, and plagued by a constant tremor, which is not an ideal combination for a desert scavenger. He and his crew are under constant threat of desertwalker attacks, and Harvard is nearly useless against them.

When the biggest mistake of Harvard’s life separates him from his crew, he must learn the secrets of the desert beasts in order to survive the dangers of the dusts. Returning to Bastion with a surprising ally, Harvard is forced to choose between saving his crew or allying with the “monsters” who rescued him.

Harvard never saw himself as a hero, but when the beasts of the dusts implore him to aid their rescue mission, he holds the lives of crabs and humans alike in his trembling hands.

For awesome post-apocalyptic action, where Earth is ruled by gargantuan crab beasts, get your copy of Empress of Dust today!

Genres: Post-Apocalyptic / Sci Fi / Trans / LGBT / Sapphic

Market: New Adult and Adult

Alex Kingsley (they/them) is a writer, comedian, game designer, and amateur mycologist. They are a co-founder of the new media company Strong Branch Productions, where they write and direct the sci-fi comedy podcast The Stench of Adventure and other shows.Their short fiction has appeared in Translunar Travelers Lounge, Radon Journal, The Storage Papers, and more. In 2023 they published their short story collection, The Strange Garden and Other Weird Tales. Alex's sci-fi play The Bearer of Bad News premiered in LA in 2022 produced by the Annenberg Foundation, and their sci-fi play Unplanned Obsolescence premiered in Philadelphia in 2023 as part of Cannonball Festival.Alex's SFF-related non-fiction has appeared in Interstellar Flight Magazine and Ancillary Review of Books. Their games can be downloaded pay-what-you-will at alexyquest.itch.io. They live in Chicago, Illinois, with their partner Noa and their cat, Ford F150. You can find them at alexjkingsley.wordpress.com, on BlueSky at alexyquest.bsky.social, Instagram at hitchhikersguidetothealexy, Mastodon at alexyquest@podvibes.co, and on TikTok at alexyquest.