Bold, queer and utterly thrilling, Hell's Heart is a speculative retelling of Herman Melville's classic, Moby Dick. From bestselling author of Boyfriend Material, Alexis Hall.

They are monsters. They are legends.
And they are our prey.

Earth is dead. Which leaves us stuck living in atmospheric domes on planets that will kill us if we blink wrong, or run out of fuel. And by ‘fuel’ I mean cerebrospinal fluid, harvested at great risk from gargantuan space monsters.

I joined the hunt hoping to get paid and maybe laid, but mostly paid. And I followed a charismatic captain eager to face these beasts and to howl her defiance across the skies of Jupiter. On her crew, I met Q, a woman from the wreck of old Earth, who might have kept me grounded. Or then again, perhaps not.

We were ordered to hunt the greatest leviathan of all, and we fought beasts and ships and one another. Then we finally met our nemesis, there above the red heart of that world. Spoiler: it didn’t end well.

‘Moby Dick meets Treasure Planet by way of Fleabag – an unbelievable accomplishment from a tremendous author’
– Sarah Gailey, author of Spread Me and Just Like Home

‘Hall’s best, weirdest, and most snarkily delightful book yet . . . intricate perfection’
– Ruthanna Emrys, author of A Half-Built Garden

‘Wow’
– John Scalzi, author of Starter Villain

Hell's Heart is a startling, ferocious love letter to all the rawest emotions the human body can produce. Hall is a master of voice and scale, and this relentlessly gripping ode to the splendours and miseries of existence is no exception. I can't think of anyone else who could successfully pull off Moby Dick meets Treasure Planet by way of Fleabag – an unbelievable accomplishment from a tremendous author -- Sarah Gailey, USA Today bestselling author of Spread Me and Just Like Home
Wow -- John Scalzi, author of When the Moon Hits Your Eye
Fey, funny, and extremely metal -- Malka Older, author of The Mimicking of Known Successes
Hall’s best, weirdest, and most snarkily delightful book yet -- Ruthanna Emrys, author of A Half-Built Garden
A towering love song to both Melville and Joan D. Vinge, a marvelous, intricate, heart-shattering romp -- Lilith Saintcrow, author of Strange Angels
Goes like gangbusters and is entirely unhinged. I'll follow Alexis Hall anywhere -- Kelly Robson, author of High Times in the Low Parliament

Some years ago – never mind how long precisely – having little or no money in their purse, and nothing particular to interest them on shore, Alexis Hall thought they would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. Unfortunately the boat they were in sank with all hands, and they were rescued only by a passing whaler. They have since become a novelist and are the author of Boyfriend Material and Hell's Heart.