About the Book
Eli and Maren are strangers when they are taken from Earth.
They wake in a place that seems like paradise. Everything has been provided for them, and every detail appears carefully chosen. But the longer they remain, the more they understand that the place has not simply been made for humans.
It has been made for them.
And it has been made wrongly.
Whoever built this place has been watching too closely. It has gathered the shape of their lives without understanding the lives themselves.
Stilling is a quiet literary speculative novel about grief, memory, observation, and the difference between being cared for and being understood.
Readers of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation, or Dan Simmons’ Hyperion may find the tone familiar. Restrained, quietly devastating, and built to linger the way real loss does, not loudly, but constantly.