A Patchwork Quilt of Stars

A child of soldiers, Remy was born into a life already mapped, shaped by the suffocating weight of quiet expectations. From the academy to the front lines, her life unfolds in a bitter, reluctant orbit around others’ dreams, complicated further by the reality of being bionic in a world too easily turned to fear and judgment. But everything begins to shift when unexpected friendships unravel what she once believed was certain. Through fleeting collisions with three girls across her journey, Remy begins to question the roles she was trained to fill and dares to imagine something else: her own ending. A Patchwork Quilt of Stars is a lyrical, character-driven sci-fi novella about identity, prejudice, and quiet rebellion. A coming-of-age story with stardust on its sleeves, it reflects how even so far into the future, growing pains remain achingly familiar. Emily Han’s debut weaves together intimate lives and distant worlds, where not all revolutions are loud, and not all journeys are measured in light-years. Read more