Sequoia Nagamatsu

How High We Go in the Dark, expected to be published January 18, 2022 by William Morrow, is a science fiction-fantasy novel. Bloomsbury acquired UK and Commonwealth foreign rights.[6]

Prior to publication, the book has been named on "most anticipated" lists from Good Housekeeping,[7] Goodreads,[8] Tatler Asia,[9] Bustle,[10] Minneapolis Star Tribune,[11] The Chicago Review of Books,[12] The Philadelphia Inquirer,[13] The Guardian,[14] She Reads,[15] Yahoo!,[16] and Tor.com.[17]

The book has also received a starred review from Booklist, who called the book "[b]oth epic and deeply intimate,"[18] as well as positive reviews from Library Journal (starred review)[19] and Lightspeed.[20] Amy Brady with the Scientific American stated that "this polyphonic novel reflects our human desire to find meaning within tragedy. To feel our innate interconnection with all things, to care for one another—strangers, even—during times of immense loss, to learn how to say goodbye, to make things of beauty, and, most essentially, to inhabit and tend a livable planet for all."[21] The book was also listed by Goodreads Readers[22] as a most anticipated read of 2022.

A Publishers Weekly reviewer noted that "Nagamatsu can clearly write, but this exploration of global trauma makes for particularly bleak reading: the novel offers no resolutions, or even much hope, just snapshots of grief and loss.... Readers willing to speculate about a global crisis not too far off from reality will find plenty to think about in this deeply sad but well-rendered vision of an apocalyptic future."[23]

Kirkus provided a poor review, saying the book was "[a]mbitious, bleak, and not fully realized."[24]

Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone, published May 2016 by Black Lawrence Press, is a short story collection.

The collection received positive reviews from Booklist,[25] Buzzfeed,[26] Strange Horizons,[27] The Rumpus,[28] and Green Mountains Review.[29]

It also received the following accolades:

• Foreword Reviews Indie Book of the Year Silver Medal winner: Short Stories (Adult Fiction) (2016)[30]
• Foreword Reviews Indie Book of the Year finalist: Multicultural (Adult Fiction) (2016)[30]
• Entropy Magazine Best Books of 2016[31]

• How High We Go in the Dark (2022)
• Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone (2016)

• "Grave Friends," published Fall 2020 in The Iowa Review[32]
• "Elegy Hotel," published Spring 2020 in The Southern Review[33]
• "The Songs of Your Decay," published April 27, 2016 by Day One
• "Where We Go When All We Were is Gone," published May 15, 2015 in Green Mountain Reviews[34]
• "The Return to Monsterland," published in Conjunctions,[35] then reprinted September 3, 2015 in Joyland[36]
• "Headwater LLC," published December 31st 2014 in Lightspeed, then republished July 26, 2016 in The Museum of All Things Awesome and that Go Boom[37]
• "Placentophagy," published November 21, 2014 in Tin House[38]
• "Melancholy Nights in a Tokyo Cyber Cafe," published May 1, 2009 in One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories[39]