Hav e questions for the author? Submit your question at registration and you m ay just hear the answer live! \;
\nPrepare to la unch into the darkest depths of deep space! Join us online as we sit down with master storyteller Daniel Kraus\, winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize f or Fiction\, to celebrate the release of his breathtaking new novel\, \;The Sixth Nik.
\nDeep into space\, far past the triworld outposts\, beyond range of the lethal trollbot internet\, soars \; The Sickness: a ship woven from biomatter and capable of reacting to every need of its human crew. Sisilla\, a nine-year-old cultist with a bra in enhanced by arcane tech known as &ldquo\;niks\,&rdquo\; has boarded to investigate the enigma of Fé\;m&mdash\;a plague-riddled planet that has abruptly gone rogue.
\nThe mysterious crew includes a faceless a ssassin\, a beautiful engineer jigsawed by plastic surgery\, a peyote-addi cted medic\, and&mdash\;most lethal of all&mdash\;a rugged\, NonModded cap tain with a score to settle with Sisilla. Other dangers abound. A hacked r obot begins to believe Sisilla is its daughter. \;The Sickness \;itself is mutating\, possibly even pregnant. And the secret of F&e acute\;m is more horrific than anyone could have imagined. To survive\, Si silla will need to forsake her predetermined fate and embrace the unknown.
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\nAbout the Author:< /p>\n
Daniel Kraus is a Pulitzer Prize-winning\, \;New York Times&nb sp\;bestselling writer of novels\, TV\, and film. His novel \;Ange l Down \;was the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner\, a \ ;New York Times \;Top 10 Book of 2025\, and a national bestseller. His novel \;Whalefall \;received a front-cover review in the \;New York Times Book Review\, won the Alex Award\, was an L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist\, and was a Best Book of 2023 from NPR\, the \;Ne w York Times\, Amazon\, \;Chicago Tribune\, and more.
\nWith Gui
llermo del Toro\, he co-authored \;The Shape of Water\, based
on the same idea the two created for the Oscar-winning film. Also with de
l Toro\, Kraus co-authored \;Trollhunters\, which was adapted
into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. He co-wrote \;The Living De
ad \;and \;Pay the Piper \;with legendary filmma
ker George A. Romero. Kraus&rsquo\;s \;The Death and Life of Zebul
on Finch \;was named one of \;Entertainment Weekly&lsquo\;s T
op 10 Books of the Year. Kraus has won the Bram Stoker Award\, Scribe Awar
d\, two Odyssey Awards (for both \;Rotters \;and \;
Kraus&rsquo\;s work has been translated into over 25 languages. He lives with his partner in Chicago. Visit him at \;danielkraus.com.
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