Premee Mohamed is an Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta.
She is the author of the ‘Beneath the Rising’ series of novels, which have been finalists for the Crawford Award, British Fantasy Award, Locus Award, and Aurora Award. Her three novellas have been finalists for the Nebula Award, Aurora Award, the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction, and the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize. In 2022 she won the Nebula award for her novella ‘And What Can We Offer You Tonight.’
Fiction (Novella)
And What Can We Offer You Tonight
Washington, DC: Neon Hemlock Press, 2021.
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
In a far future city, where you can fall to a government cull for a single mistake, And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed tells the story of Jewel, established courtesan in a luxurious House. Jewel’s world is shaken when her friend is murdered by a client, but somehow comes back to life. To get revenge, they will both have to confront the limits of loyalty, guilt, and justice.
Awards and Honours
2022 World Fantasy Awards–Best Novella (Winner)
Fiction (Novella)
The Annual Migration of Clouds
Toronto: ECW Press, 2021.
E-book (Access restricted to members of the university community)
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
The world is nothing like it once was: climate disasters have wracked the continent, causing food shortages, ending industry, and leaving little behind. Then came Cad, mysterious mind-altering fungi that invade the bodies of the now scattered citizenry. Reid, a young woman who carries this parasite, has been given a chance to get away — to move to one of the last remnants of pre-disaster society — but she can’t bring herself to abandon her mother and the community that relies on her. When she’s offered a coveted place on a dangerous and profitable mission, she jumps at the opportunity to set her family up for life, but how can Reid ask people to put their trust in her when she can’t even trust her own mind?
With keen insight and biting prose, Premee Mohamed delivers a deeply personal tale in this post-apocalyptic hopepunk novella that reflects on the meaning of community and asks what we owe to those who have lifted us up.
Fiction
Beneath the Rising
Oxford: Solaris, 2020.
Series: Beneath the Rising ; book 1
PS8626.O4473 A76 2021
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
Nick Prasad has always enjoyed a quiet life in the shadow of his best friend, child prodigy and technological genius Joanna ‘Johnny’ Chambers. But all that is about to end.
When Johnny invents a clean reactor that could eliminate fossil fuels and change the world, she awakens primal, evil Ancient Ones set on subjugating humanity.
From the oldest library in the world to the ruins of Nineveh, hunted at every turn, they will need to trust each other completely to survive…
Awards and Honours
2021 Locus Awards–First Novel (Finalist)
Fiction
A Broken Darkness
Oxford: Solaris, 2021.
Series: Beneath the Rising; book 2
PS8626.O4473 B78 2021
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
It’s been a year and a half since the Anomaly, when They tried to force Their way into the world from the shapeless void.
Nick Prasad is piecing his life together, and has joined the secretive Ssarati Society to help monitor threats to humanity – including his former friend Johnny.
Right on cue, the unveiling of Johnny’s latest experiment sees a fresh incursion of Them, leaving her protesting her innocence even as the two of them are thrown together to fight the darkness once more…
Fiction (Short stories)
No One Will Come Back for Us And Other Stories
Pickering, Ont.: Undertow Publications, 2023.
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
Here there be gods and monsters — forged from flesh and stone and vengeance — emerging from the icy abyss of deep space, ascending from dark oceans, and prowling strange cities to enter worlds of chaos and wonder, where scientific rigor and human endeavour is tested to the limits. These are cosmic realms and watery domains where old offerings no longer appease the ancient Gods or the new and hungry idols. Deities and beasts. Life and death. Love and hate. Science and magic. And smiling monsters in human skin.
Awards and Honours
2024 Alberta Literary Awards–Short Story Collection (Winner)
2024 World Fantasy Awards–Best Collection (Winner)
Fiction (Short stories)
One Message Remains: Stories
Woodbury, VT: Psychopomp, 2025.
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
Award-winning author Premee Mohamed presents three brand new stories set in this morally ambiguous world of war and magic. In “One Message Remains,” Major Lyell Tzajos leads his team on a charity mission through the post-armistice world of East Seudast, exhuming the bones and souls of dead foes for repatriation. But the buried fighters may have one more fight left in them—and they have chosen their weapons well.
In “The Weight of What is Hollow,” Taya is the latest apprentice of a long-honored tradition: building the bone-gallows for prisoners of war. But her very first commission will pit her skills against both her family and her oppressor.
Finally, in “Forsaking All Others,” ex-soldier Rostyn must travel the little-known ways by night to avoid his pursuers, for desertion is punishable by death. As he flees to the hoped-for sanctuary of his grandmother’s village, he is joined by a fellow deserter—and, it seems, the truth of a myth older than the land itself.
Fiction (Novella)
The Rider, The Ride, The Rich Man’s Wife
Hornsea, East Yorkshire, UK: PS Publishing, 2024.
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
Lucas is dismayed when his brother Kit is chosen to take part in the Hunt: a chase that takes place every seven years and acts as a sacrifice to the Rider and his Wife, ensuring a plentiful harvest, at least that year. Determined to save his brother, all he has left, Lucas hatches a plan to save Kit and accompany him in his struggle to survive—setting the scene for a race through a post-apocalyptic landscape filled with more danger than either boy could ever imagine. The Rider, The Ride, The Rich Man’s Wife is a thrilling, post-apocalyptic chase, marrying Fairy Tale, Western and Adventure. Hang on tight!
Fiction
The Siege of Burning Grass
Oxford: Solaris, 2024.
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
Alefret, the founder of Varkal’s pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked up in a secret prison and tortured by a ‘visionary’ scientist. But now they’re offering him a chance of freedom.
Ordered to infiltrate one of Med’ariz’s flying cities, obeying the bloodthirsty zealot Qhudur, he must find fellow anti-war activists in the enemy’s population and provoke them into an uprising against their rulers.
He should refuse to serve the warmongers, but what if he could end this pointless war once and for all? Is that worth compromising his own morals and the principles of his fellow resistance members?
Fiction (Novella)
These Lifeless Things
Oxford: Solaris, 2021.
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
Eva is a survivor. She’s not sure what she survived, exactly, only that They invaded without warning, killed nearly all of humanity, and relentlessly attack everyone who’s left. All she can do to stay sane, in the blockaded city that’s no longer home, is keep a journal about her struggle.
Fifty years later, Eva’s words are found by Emerson, a young anthropologist sent to the ruins to study what happened. The discovery could shed light on the Invasion, turning the unyielding mystery of the short war into a story of hope and defiance.
Fiction
The Void Ascendant
Oxford: Solaris, 2022.
Series: Beneath the Rising; book 3
PS8626.O33 V65 2022
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
Seven years ago, the last survivor of Earth crashed through uncountable dimensions to a strange new world. Nick Prasad found shelter, and a living, as a prophet for the ruling family—servants of the Ancient Ones who destroyed his home.
Now, he’s been offered a chance to rid the multiverse of the Ancient Ones, past and present and forever, although he’ll have to betray his new masters to do it.
The first step is jailbreaking a god—and that’s the easy part…
Fiction
We Speak Through the Mountain
Toronto: ECW Press, 2024.
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
Traveling alone through the climate-crisis-ravaged wilds of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, 19-year-old Reid Graham battles the elements and her lifelong chronic illness to reach the utopia of Howse University. But life in one of the storied “domes” — the last remnants of pre-collapse society — isn’t what she expected. Reid tries to excel in her classes and make connections with other students, but still grapples with guilt over what happened just before she left her community. And as she learns more about life at Howse, she begins to realize she can’t stand idly by as the people of the dome purposely withhold needed resources from the rest of humanity. When the worst of news comes from back home, Reid must make a choice between herself, her family, and the broken new world.
In this powerful follow-up to her award-winning novella The Annual Migration of Clouds, Premee Mohamed is at the top of her game as she explores the conflicts and complexities of this post-apocalyptic society and asks whether humanity is doomed to forever recreate its worst mistakes.
Links
Premee Mohamad personal website
Publisher ECW Press
Publisher Neon Hemlock Press
Publisher PS Publishing
Publisher Psychopomp
Publisher Rebellion Publishing, owner of the Solaris imprint
Publisher Undertow Publications