{"id":15283,"date":"2022-06-30T13:49:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T17:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=15283"},"modified":"2026-03-14T13:58:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:58:35","slug":"premee-mohamad","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/premee-mohamad\/","title":{"rendered":"Premee Mohamed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Premee Mohamed is an Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Novella)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

And What Can We Offer You Tonight<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Washington, DC: Neon Hemlock Press, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In a far future city, where you can fall to a government cull for a single mistake, And What Can We Offer You Tonight <\/em>by Premee Mohamed tells the story of Jewel, established courtesan in a luxurious House. Jewel\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2022 World Fantasy Awards–Best Novella<\/a> (Winner)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Novella)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Annual Migration of Clouds<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: ECW Press, 2021.
E-book<\/a> (Access restricted to members of the university community)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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 \u2014 to move to one of the last remnants of pre-disaster society \u2014 but she can\u2019t bring herself to abandon her mother and the community that relies on her. When she\u2019s 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\u2019t even trust her own mind?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Beneath the Rising<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Oxford: Solaris, 2020.
Series: Beneath the Rising ; book 1
PS8626.O4473 A76 2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Nick Prasad has always enjoyed a quiet life in the shadow of his best friend, child prodigy and technological genius Joanna \u2018Johnny\u2019 Chambers. But all that is about to end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2021 Locus Awards<\/a>–First Novel (Finalist)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A Broken Darkness<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Oxford: Solaris, 2021.
Series: Beneath the Rising; book 2
PS8626.O4473 B78 2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s been a year and a half since the Anomaly, when They tried to force Their way into the world from the shapeless void.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nick Prasad is piecing his life together, and has joined the secretive Ssarati Society to help monitor threats to humanity \u2013 including his former friend Johnny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right on cue, the unveiling of Johnny\u2019s 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\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Butcher of the Forest<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

New York: Tor Publishing Group, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

At the northern edge of a land ruled by a merciless foreign tyrant lies a wild, forbidden forest ruled by powerful magic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Veris Thorn\u2015the only one to ever enter the forest and survive\u2015is forced to go back inside to retrieve the tyrant’s missing children. Inside await traps and trickery, ancient monsters, and hauntings of the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One day is all Veris is afforded. One misstep will cost everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2025 Aurora Awards–Best Novelette\/Novella<\/a> (Winner)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The First Thousand Trees<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: ECW Press, 2025.
forthcoming Sept. 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

After making a grievous mistake that ended in death, Henryk Mandrusiak feels increasingly ostracized within his own community, and after the passing on of his parents and the departure of his best friend, Reid, there is little left to tie him to the place he calls home. Henryk does something he never expected: He sets out into the harsh wilds alone, in search of far-flung family. He finds his uncle\u2019s village, but making a life for himself in this unfriendly new place \u2014 rougher and more impoverished than the campus where he grew up \u2014 isn\u2019t easy. Henryk strives to carve out a place of his own but learns that some corners of his broken world are darker than he could have imagined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This stunning novella concludes the story Mohamed started in The Annual Migration of Clouds<\/em> and continued in We Speak Through the Mountain<\/em>, bleaker than ever but still in search of a spark of hope in the climate apocalypse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Short stories)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

No One Will Come Back for Us And Other Stories<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Pickering, Ont.: Undertow Publications, 2023.
PS8626.O4473 N6 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Here there be gods and monsters \u2014 forged from flesh and stone and vengeance \u2014 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2024 Alberta Literary Awards–Short Story Collection (Winner)
2024 World Fantasy Awards–Best Collection<\/a> (Winner)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Short stories)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One Message Remains: Stories<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Woodbury, VT: Psychopomp, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Award-winning author Premee Mohamed presents three brand new stories set in this morally ambiguous world of war and magic. In \u201cOne Message Remains,\u201d 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\u2014and they have chosen their weapons well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In \u201cThe Weight of What is Hollow,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, in \u201cForsaking All Others,\u201d 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\u2019s village, he is joined by a fellow deserter\u2014and, it seems, the truth of a myth older than the land itself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Novella)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Rider, The Ride, The Rich Man’s Wife<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hornsea, East Yorkshire, UK: PS Publishing, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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\u2014setting 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\u2019s Wife<\/em> is a thrilling, post-apocalyptic chase, marrying Fairy Tale, Western and Adventure. Hang on tight!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Siege of Burning Grass<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Oxford: Solaris, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Alefret, the founder of Varkal\u2019s pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked up in a secret prison and tortured by a \u2018visionary\u2019 scientist. But now they\u2019re offering him a chance of freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordered to infiltrate one of Med\u2019ariz\u2019s flying cities, obeying the bloodthirsty zealot Qhudur, he must find fellow anti-war activists in the enemy\u2019s population and provoke them into an uprising against their rulers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2025 Aurora Awards–Best Novel<\/a> (Winner)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Novella)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

These Lifeless Things<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Oxford: Solaris, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Eva is a survivor. She\u2019s not sure what she survived, exactly, only that They invaded without warning, killed nearly all of humanity, and relentlessly attack everyone who\u2019s left. All she can do to stay sane, in the blockaded city that\u2019s no longer home, is keep a journal about her struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fifty years later, Eva\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Void Ascendant<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Oxford: Solaris, 2022.
Series: Beneath the Rising; book 3
PS8626.O33 V65 2022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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\u2014servants of the Ancient Ones who destroyed his home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, he\u2019s been offered a chance to rid the multiverse of the Ancient Ones, past and present and forever, although he\u2019ll have to betray his new masters to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first step is jailbreaking a god\u2014and that\u2019s the easy<\/em> part\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We Speak Through the Mountain<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: ECW Press, 2024.
PS8626.O44735 W47 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Traveling alone through the climate-crisis-ravaged wilds of Alberta\u2019s 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 \u201cdomes\u201d \u2014 the last remnants of pre-collapse society \u2014 isn\u2019t 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\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this powerful follow-up to her award-winning novella The Annual Migration of Clouds<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Premee Mohamad personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher ECW Press<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Neon Hemlock Press<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher PS Publishing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Psychopomp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Rebellion Publishing<\/a>, owner of the Solaris imprint<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Undertow Publications<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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