The Moonday Letters
A lyrical science fiction mystery wrapped in a LGBTQ love story that bends space, time, myth, and science—perfect for fans of Octavia Butler and Emily St. John Mandel.
“Dreamy and mysterious and nearly impossible to pin down.” —Paste Magazine
Sol has disappeared. Their Earth-born wife Lumi sets out to find them but it is no simple feat: each clue uncovers another enigma. Their disappearance leads back to underground environmental groups and a web of mystery that spans the space between the planets themselves.
Told through letters and extracts, the course of Lumi’s journey takes her not only from the affluent colonies of Mars to the devastated remnants of Earth, but into the hidden depths of Sol’s past and the long-forgotten secrets of her own.
Set in a future where climate change has reduced the Earth to a playground for the wealthy, The Moonday Letters is part eco-thriller, part space-age epistolary, and a queer love story between two individuals from very different worlds.
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Emmi Itäranta
When Emmi Itäranta began writing Memory of Water, she did something quietly radical—she wrote it in two languages at once. Switching back and forth between Finnish and English as the story unfolded, she created a novel that carried the rhythm and intimacy of both languages, a rare duality that mirrors the world she so often writes about: beautiful, fragile, and quietly brimming with tension.
Born in Tampere, Finland, Itäranta grew up surrounded by forests, lakes, and a culture steeped in nature’s rhythms—landscapes that seep into her fiction like mist. Her writing is not loud or showy; it lingers like a memory, often blurring the line between dystopia and dream. Her debut novel, Memory of Water, tells the story of a young tea master’s apprentice in a future where water is tightly rationed—a haunting premise rendered with poetic restraint. The book earned international acclaim, winning the Kalevi Jäntti Prize and being nominated for both the Philip K. Dick Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, quietly placing her on the global speculative fiction map.
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