Star Song
- Author Name: Edward Willett
- Award Year: 2022
- Publisher: Shadowpaw Press
- Publication Date: 2021
- ISBN: 9781989398036
- Author Website: http://www.edwardwillett.com
About the Book
When the old woman who raised him in a remote village is murdered, Kriss Lemarc finds himself alone on a planet where he’ll always be an outsider. His only link to his long-dead, unknown parents is the touchlyre they bequeathed him, a strange instrument that not only plays music but pours his innermost feelings into the minds of his listeners. When Tevera, a girl of the space-going, nomadic Family, hears Kriss perform, she is drawn to him against her better judgment and the rules of her people. With her help, though mistrusted and even hated by some of her comrades, Kriss seeks to discover the origin of the touchlyre, the fate of his parents, and a place where he truly belongs. But the touchlyre proves to be more than just a musical oddity. Powerful, ruthless people will stop at nothing to get it—and Kriss and Tevera are all that stand in their way.
About the Author
Edward Willett is the award-winning author of more than sixty books of science fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction for readers of all ages, including the Worldshapers series and the Masks of Agyrima trilogy (as E.C. Blake) for DAW Books, the YA fantasy series The Shards of Excalibur, and most recently, the YA SF novel Star Song. His humorous space opera The Tangled Stars comes out from DAW in 2022. Willett won Canada’s Aurora Award for Best Long-Form Work in English in 2009 for Marseguro (DAW) and for Best Fan Related Work in 2019 for The Worldshapers podcast. He won the Regina Book Award in 2002 for his YA fantasy novel Spirit Singer. He's been shortlisted for Aurora and Saskatchewan Book Awards multiple times. He has Kickstarted, edited, and published through his own Shadowpaw Press two anthologies featuring authors who were guests on the podcast, Shapers of Worlds and Shapers of Worlds Volume II. He lives in Regina, Saskatchewan, with his wife, Margaret Anne Hodges, P.Eng., a past president of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan. They have a college-age daughter and a much younger black Siberian cat, Shadowpaw, after whom Shadowpaw Press is named. Find him at edwardwillett.com.