Ray Nayler is the author of the Locus Award winning novel The Mountain in the Sea, which was named one of Esquire’s best science fiction books of all time and has been translated into over a dozen languages. His second book, The Tusks of Extinction, published in 2024, was named a Best Book of the Year by both the New York Times and the Washington Post. Ray’s third book, Where the Axe is Buried, was published in April. Called “one of the up-and-coming masters of SF short fiction,” by Locus, Ray published his first science fiction story, “Mutability,” in Asimov’s

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