Overgrowth
Published on 6. May 2025
Book
Hardback
512 pages
978-1-83784-094-6 (ISBN)
Description
Day of the Triffids meets Little Shop of Horrors in this smart, charming, harrowing alien invasion story about being human, by a Hugo-award winning author.
Since she was three years old, Anastasia Miller has been telling anyone who would listen that she's an alien disguised as a human being, and that the armada that left her on Earth is coming for her. Since she was three years old, no one has believed her.
Now, with an alien signal from the stars being broadcast around the world, humanity is finally starting to realize that it's already been warned, and it may be too late. The invasion is coming, Stasia's biological family is on the way to bring her home, and very few family reunions are willing to cross the gulf of space for just one misplaced child.
What happens when you know what's coming, and just refuse to listen?
Since she was three years old, Anastasia Miller has been telling anyone who would listen that she's an alien disguised as a human being, and that the armada that left her on Earth is coming for her. Since she was three years old, no one has believed her.
Now, with an alien signal from the stars being broadcast around the world, humanity is finally starting to realize that it's already been warned, and it may be too late. The invasion is coming, Stasia's biological family is on the way to bring her home, and very few family reunions are willing to cross the gulf of space for just one misplaced child.
What happens when you know what's coming, and just refuse to listen?
Reviews / Votes
Praise for Overgrowth"Mira Grant re-cements her place at the top of the sci-fi horror genre." T. Kingfisher, author of What Moves the Dead
"I've never read anything like this. Overgrowth is poignant, beautiful and terrifying by turns. Grant has written a first contact story that captures the wonder of encountering something truly alien and the horror of learning how much of the alien is already inside us. A unique and utterly addictive read, from the first green shoots to the final harvest." M.R. Carey, author of The Girl With All the Gifts
"A sweeping green storm in which Grant offers a garden of seclusion, and finding yourself, and the end of the world too. Overgrowth is charming and yet horrific, a modern sci-fi shadow cast by past fears and the looming future of our lonely planet." Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth
"By turns heartfelt and grotesque, Overgrowth is the totally original space invasion novel for our times, as much about aliens as it is about very human alienation. It's Mira Grant's best work yet!" Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of The House of Last Resort and The Night Birds
"Overgrowth's horror grows into you, like a tendril that wraps around heart and lung, tightening until you can think of nothing else." Cassandra Khaw, author of The Salt Grows Heavy
"Lock in. Once you start Stasia's story, you will not want to stop. SO GOOD." -S.A. Barnes, author of Ghost Station
"A deliciously nasty blend of science fiction, horror, and thriller-hard-hitting and compulsively readable!" -Tim Waggoner, author of The Custodians of the Cosmos series
"A very modern re-imagining of the alien bio-invasion, unfolded with the confidence of a master storyteller. This is Grant at her truthful, unflinching best." Paul Cornell, author of Witches of Lychford
"A piercing meditation on belonging and community with the pace and intensity of a blockbuster thriller, Overgrowth will leave you both full of thought and ready for more. Imaginative, exciting, and heart-felt: this is sci-fi horror at its best." Wendy N. Wagner, author of Girl in the Creek
Praise for Mira Grant:
"Astonishing...a fascinating exploration of the future." New York Times on the Newsflesh series
"I can't wait for the next book." N.K. Jemisin on Feed
"Engrossing and adrenaline-fueled." Shelf Awareness on Into the Drowning Deep
"Grant's skillfully crafted story combines science, horror, and mystery into a gripping novel of terror." Library Journal, starred review, on Into the Drowning Deep
"Absolutely delivers on beastly terror.... Best-selling author Mira Grant is one of today's best horror authors." Vulture on Into the Drowning Deep
"Grant's heady brew of visceral horror, fascinating science, and, of course, the hubris of mankind in the face of the awesome unknown is irresistible." Kirkus Reviews on Into the Drowning Deep
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
656 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83784-094-6 (9781837840946)
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Mira Grant is the author of the New York Times bestselling Newsflesh series, along with multiple other works of biomedical science fiction. She has been nominated for the Hugo Award, and her book, Feed, was chosen as one of NPR's 100 Killer Thrillers. Mira is also Seanan McGuire, a bestselling author of award-winning fantasy and comics.
www.miragrant.com
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@seananmcguire.bsky.social