Hell's Heart

The breathtakingly original reimagining of the classic Moby Dick story – with wit, grand adventure and queer romance. Here a small band ventures into deep space to hunt a mysterious leviathan. Great riches are at stake – but some might lose their lives, and their hearts, in the process.

Bold, queer and utterly thrilling, Hell's Heart is a speculative, spicy, slow-burn adventure
from the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material, Alexis Hall.

Earth is dead. Which leaves humanity stuck living under domes on planets that will kill them if they run out of fuel – fuel harvested at great risk from gargantuan space monsters.

Following a charismatic captain, a nameless voyager joins this monster hunt. She’s hoping to get paid, and maybe laid. And in the
ship’s close quarters, she finds an unlikely ally in Q, a fierce woman from old earth, whose touch ignites something within her.

Ordered to pursue the greatest leviathan of all, the crew will fight beasts, other ships and one another.
All in search of their nemesis, above the roiling red heart of that world.

‘Moby Dick meets Treasure Planet by way of Fleabag’
– Sarah Gailey

‘Equal parts funny, saucy and philosophical’
– Scientific American

‘A joy . . . unputdownable’
– Locus Magazine