We are thrilled to announce DOWN IN THE SEA OF ANGELS by Khan Wong and reveal the cover for this new dystopian fantasy! Wong’s previous title The Circus Infinite was a finalist for the Lambda LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction Award 2023.

Publication: April 2025

ABOUT THE BOOK: An intense and thoughtful time-travelling dystopian fantasy where three individuals, psychically linked through time, fight enslavement, exploitation, and environmental collapse. A great read for fans of Emily St. John Mandel.

In the year 2106, climate change has altered the world, transforming borders, cities, and socioeconomic structures. Additionally, a cosmic event known as the ‘Bloom’ has awakened psionic abilities in a small percentage of the population.

One such individual is Maida Sun, who possesses the ability of psychometry, a gift that allows her to touch an object and know its entire history. Newly employed with the Golden Gate Cultural Recovery Project in the area once known as San Francisco Bay, she must learn how to navigate the parameters of her abilities as well as the politics of the organization she works for. Until a chance encounter with a political leader’s watch reveals a plan to eliminate psionic powers, and the people who possess them. People like her.

Terrified, but left with few options, Maida continues work at the Project, when she stumbles upon a teacup and is psychically plunged into the lives of two of its previous owners – Nathan Zhao of 2006, a “bourgeois bohemian” working his corporate design job while longing for greater purpose; and Li Nuan of 1906, an indentured servant in a Chinatown brothel.

On discovering that these two people are distant relatives of hers, a strong psychic connection is made and Maida realizes she can use the conduit of the teacup to send a message back through time, giving her the chance to warn her ancestors of the coming climate collapse and save her own life.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Khan Wong has published poetry, played cello in an earnest folk-rock duo, and been an internationally known hula hoop teacher and performer. He’s toured with a circus and produced circus arts shows in San Francisco, where he also worked as a grantmaker with a  public sector arts funding agency. He is the author of The Circus Infinite and Down in the Sea of Angels, which will be out in April 2025.