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Announcing The Test, a New Novella from Sylvain Neuvel

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Published on May 17, 2018

Photo courtesy of James Andrew Rosen
Photo courtesy of James Andrew Rosen

Tor.com Publishing Senior Editor Lee Harris has acquired author and linguist Sylvain Neuvel’s new novella The Test, a thrilling, timely exploration of a dystopian near future where the road to citizenship is harrowing—and carries a price.

Said the author:

I’m thrilled to be working with Tor.com Publishing to bring The Test to readers. It’s a story that comes from a visceral place and I hope it resonates with people and sparks conversation. I wrote it at a time where I felt particularly vulnerable to the current political climate. There seemed to be nowhere to escape. Somehow, that feeling of being trapped in world gone mad turned into The Test. I can’t wait to share it.

Sylvain Neuvel dropped out of high school at age 15. Along the way, he has been a journalist, worked in soil decontamination, sold ice cream in California, and peddled furniture across Canada. He received a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Chicago. He taught linguistics in India, and worked as a software engineer in Montreal. He is also a certified translator, though he wishes he were an astronaut. He likes to tinker, dabbles in robotics and is somewhat obsessed with Halloween. 

He absolutely loves toys; his girlfriend would have him believe that he has too many, so he writes about aliens and giant robots as a blatant excuse to build action figures (for his son, of course). He is the author of the Themis Files series: Sleeping Giants (“one of the most promising series kickoffs in recent memory”—NPR), Waking Gods (“In a word: unputdownable.” –Kirkus) and Only Human (“Two (giant, robotic) thumbs up!” –Kirkus).

The Test will be available from Tor.com Publishing in 2019.

 

 

 

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