the book
Vacuum Bloom
A novel
On a mining moon that grows flowers in nothing, a shift-worker named Iris finds something that should not exist and cannot be reported. A tense, gorgeous debut about labor, memory, and the strange plants humans keep alive out where the sun does not reach.
about
the person behind the book
Dex Arroyo is a debut novelist from Oakland writing gritty, hopeful science fiction. Vacuum Bloom is their first novel. Previously: bike messenger, film projectionist, terrible barista.
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