Massif: A thrilling military sci-fi standalone novel from the beloved multimillion copy bestseller perfect for fans of Andy Weir and Pierce Brown

Name: Massif: A thrilling military sci-fi standalone novel from the beloved multimillion copy bestseller perfect for fans of Andy Weir and Pierce Brown
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Garth Nix

Sep 2026 · Hachette UK

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RIDE A MASSIF TO THE NEXT STAR SYSTEM.
FIGHT THE ENEMY.
REPEAT.

It's business as usual for Parnell Shi-Sawahla and the crew of the United Earth Government Navy ship Sassafras. For more than two hundred years humans have been hitching rides into space on vast sentient mountain ranges called Massifs in an endless interstellar war between the forces of Earth and Mars.

But the same unanswered questions burn behind every battle, every conquered world, every new colony.

Why do the Massifs carry humans to the stars?
Why do they help us export our wars?
What's in it for them?

Ship crews aren't supposed to ask these questions - and they definitely aren't supposed to speak to the all-powerful avatars piloting the mountains. But when Parnell's deputy, Kaz, is stranded on an enemy planet, he needs the Massif's help to rescue her . . . and that means figuring out how to talk to it.

Nothing could ever have prepared him for what he learns of the secrets fuelling their voyages across the galaxy. The only certainty amidst the dread is that there is far more at stake than the lives of his crew.

Military sci-fi meets cosmic horror in this epic space opera from the multimillion-copy bestseller behind many globally beloved fantasy series including The Old Kingdom and The Left-Handed Booksellers of London - unmissable for fans of Andy Weir and Pierce Brown.

PRAISE FOR GARTH NIX

'You are in for a treat' GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
'One of the best world-builders' BRANDON SANDERSON
'Nix sets the standard' LEIGH BARDUGO
'I will never get enough' SARAH J MAAS
'A swashbuckling adventure' JOE ABERCROMBIE
'A world with the same four dimensional authority as our own' PHILIP PULLMAN

RIDE A MASSIF TO THE NEXT STAR SYSTEM. FIGHT THE ENEMY. REPEAT. It's business as usual for Parnell Shi-Sawahla and the crew of the United Earth Government Navy ship Sassafras. For more than two hundred years humans have been hitching rides into space on vast sentient mountain ranges called Massi...

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Garth Nix has been a full-time writer since 2001, but has also worked as a literary agent, marketing consultant, book editor, book publicist, book sales representative, bookseller, and as a part-time soldier in the Australian Army Reserve. More than six million copies of Garth's books have been sold around the world, they have appeared on the bestseller lists of The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, The Bookseller and others, and his work has been translated into 42 languages. He has won multiple Aurealis Awards, the Ditmar Award, the Mythopoeic Award, CBCA Honour Book, and has been shortlisted for the Locus Awards, the Shirley Jackson Award and others.

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