![]() ![]() ![]() The Australian cowriters, both residents of Melbourne, started the book as a no-holds-barred lark, writing mostly for the joy of it, not sure whether a book with this unconventional format would ever be picked up by publishers. Kaufman and Kristoff tell the story through hacked documents-thus the "files" in the series name-which include medical reports, emails, military data, and more. ![]() Set more than 500 years in the future, it centers on two exes who are caught in the middle of an interplanetary war between rival megacorporations. Together they have masterminded a genre-bending new story shape in this month's Illuminae, the first book of The Illuminae Files trilogy. Separately they've already created expansive, absorbing worlds- Jay Kristoff in his Japanese-inspired steampunk fantasy series, The Lotus War, and Amie Kaufman in her New York Times bestselling sci-fi/fantasy series, Starbound, cowritten with Meagan Spooner. ![]()
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