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Looking for your one shot to rise to the “top of the pots” in the cutthroat world of interstellar cuisine? Look no further—you might have what it takes to be an Interstellar MegaChef!

Stepping off a long-haul star freighter from Earth, Saras Kaveri has one bag of clothes, her little flying robot Kili… and an invitation to compete in the galaxy’s most watched, most prestigious cooking show. Interstellar MegaChef is the showcase of the planet Primus’s austere, carefully synthesised cuisine. Until now, no-one from Earth—where they’re so incredibly primitive they still cook with fire—has ever graced its flowmetal cookstations before, or smiled awkwardly for its buzzing drone-cams.

Corporate prodigy Serenity Ko, inventor of the smash-hit sim SoundSpace, has just got messily drunk at a floating bar, narrowly escaped an angry mob and been put on two weeks’ mandatory leave to rest and get her work-life balance back. Perfect time to start a new project! And she’s got just the idea: a sim for food. Now she just needs someone to teach her how to cook.

A chance meeting in the back of a flying cab has Saras and Serenity Ko working together on a new technology that could change the future of food—and both their lives—forever…

Interstellar MegaChef by Lavanya Lakshminarayan

£9.99Price
  • Format: Paperback

    ISBN: 9781837862337

    Imprint: Solaris

  • “Interstellar MegaChef is a stunning achievement, and an absolute feast for your brain, your heart and your soul. Devour it at once – it’ll leave you sated and hungry for more.” —Samit Basu, author of The City Inside and The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

    “If The Great British Baking Show and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy had a child, it would be Interstellar MegaChef.” —S. B. Divya, Nebula and Hugo-nominated author of MERU

    “An engaging story that dives into themes about the appreciation of food, colonization, and xenophobia and features two morally gray queer women attempting to find their footing with each other.” —Library Journal, starred review

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