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The Legend Liminal
A Novella
Stacey Kells never expected to fall out of reality when she packed her bags, got into a camper van with her two brothers and their best friend, and started travelling west. Sure, they might have said something like that—that’s kind of the point of going off the grid, isn’t it? But no one thought it would happen quite so literally. Then the world got real empty, and it stayed empty.
Now it’s just the four of them, and a map that doesn’t make sense, and miles upon miles of desert and sky and endless empty highway. They embarked on this road trip to figure out what to do with their lives—but their lives don’t seem to exist anymore, and there may not be a way back home.
The Legend Liminal is a story about grief and hope, and the way we find lifelines in each other when we can’t break free of the spiral of the past.
Award Nominations
Longlisted for the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Award for Best Shorter Fiction.
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Praise for The Legend Liminal
“The Legend Liminalis an ambitiously original novella about the strength of familial bonds in all the strangest, coldest corners of spacetime, and the subtle defiance of simply existing in an uncertain world. Hutchings’ signature wit and twisty sci-fi concepts add kaleidoscopic depth to this standout story.”
— Claire Winn, author of City of Shattered Light
“The Legend Liminal traps its readers in time and space, where we, like the characters, are moving forward yet stuck in place-a melancholic meditation on grief and the inability to move on; of finding the purpose and meaning of existence; of travelling without knowing the destination.”
—Ai Jiang, Nebula and Bram Stoker and Hugo Award finalist and author of A Palace Near the Wind and Linghun
“Anyone who’s ever felt trapped in their worst moments will find resonance in this evocative slipstream story of empty spaces, endless highways, and the people who give the world meaning when there’s nothing else left.”
—Rebecca Fraimow, author of Locus Award finalist Lady Eve’s Last Con
“As imaginative and nostalgic as Stranger Things, mixed with the twisty conundrum of Groundhog Day, The Legend Liminal is a fresh, clever, and sometimes creepy road trip-don’t miss hitching a ride!”
—Kate Murray, author of We Who Hunt the Hollow
Locus Magazine Review by Alexandra Pierce
Locus Magazine Review by Maya C. James
Specifications
Publication date September 30, 2025
Paperback: 979-8-9914419-5-7 / Price 13.99
Ebook: 979-8-9914419-6-4 / Price 5.99
Cover art by Kim Herbst. Title font and back cover layout by Dash Creative.