Alice Payne Rides
By: Kate Heartfield
Available in audiobook, paperback and ebook from your local bookseller (mine is Perfect Books) or from Indigo, Amazon Canada, Amazon UK, Amazon US, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop, or wherever you buy books.
Recommended by Locus.
Finalist for the Aurora Award.
- Pre-order links available on the publisher’s page.
- My author annotations on Goodreads.
- Listen to this excerpt from the audiobook, read by Jennywren Walker.
Praise for Alice Payne Arrives:
“Twisty time wars, highway robbery, 18th century lady scientists, queer joy. How could I not love this? Alice Payne Arrives at a gallop, breathlessly blending historical fiction and SF tropes, then turning them on their heads.” ―Sarah Pinsker
“Whip smart, and packed with irresistible characters and fast-paced adventure. A playful, pointed, and brilliantly inventive remix of history that unfolds like the most fascinating puzzle box―each new twist and reveal a delight. Counting the days to the sequel.” ―S.L. Huang
Reviews of Alice Payne Rides:
Heartfield has a gifted touch for showing us compelling, believable individuals, all of whom feel real and vivid. It’s a story about family, for better or worse: the family you find, the family you build, and the family you choose.
Alice Payne Rides was everything I could have hoped for out of a sequel, and then some. It was just as intense as the first novella, if not more so…. This series has become everything I never knew I wanted out of a time travel story.
I read both novellas very quickly, engaged to turn pages not only on the concept and the characters, but Heartfield’s prose as well.
These two novellas are fast-paced adventurous romps featuring tons of queer women and women of colour in what I would call “shut up and take my money” subgenre of time travelling goodness. SO MUCH FUN.