Ren Hutchings

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SFF writer, writing mentor, editor, reader, fan 🪐 Author of Under Fortunate Stars, An Unbreakable World, The Legend Liminal, more to come 💫 Rep: Ernie Chiara @ Fuse Literary 🚀 she/they 🏳️‍🌈 website: renhutchings.com links: linktr.ee/voidcricket

Longlisted for the BSFA Awards AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD by Ren Hutchings (Solaris) - Best Novel
Ren holds up a copy of The Legend Liminal, with an empty desert highway in the background. The cover of the book features a camper van driving on a road shaped like an infinity symbol, in front of a vaporwave-style sunset.
Check out these SFF books for your TBR! Image: book covers arranged against the backdrop of an empty nighttime highway. The books are Down in the Sea of Angels by Khan Wong, A Palace Near The Wind by Ai Jiang, The Iron Children by Rebecca Fraimow, City of Shattered Light by Claire Winn, We Who Hunt the Hollow by Kate Murray.
A stack of books piled up on a wooden desk with a blue cosmic backdrop. THE LEGEND LIMINAL by Ren Hutchings is facing out. Books in the stack are: Down in the Sea of Angels by Khan Wong, A Palace Near The Wind by Ai Jiang, The Iron Children by Rebecca Fraimow, City of Shattered Light by Claire Winn, We Who Hunt The Hollow by Kate Murray.
Storygraph Giveaway! Win a free copy of my book, An Unbreakable World! (UK/CAN/US only, terms & conditions apply.) An Unbreakable World is: - Standalone space opera - For readers who love K.B. Wagers, Alex White & Becky chambers - Set in the same universe as Under Fortunate Stars An image of the book An Unbreakable World by Ren Hutchings is surrounded by the information above about the giveaway, on a cosmic background. The book cover features a planet with an orbiting moon, seen from above through the window of a spacecraft.
A collage of images of Gareth Powell & Ren Hutchings at their book signing event at Forbidden Planet. The authors sitting together at a table with stacks of their books & tall bookshelves in the background, the authors in a closeup selfie, the authors signing & dedicating copies of Who Will You Save? and An Unbreakable World. The images are arranged on a starry backdrop.
GARETH L. POWELL & REN HUTCHINGS BOOK LAUNCH THURS. 18 SEPT. 5:30PM FORBIDDEN PLANET BRISTOL UNITS 4&5 CLIFTON HEIGHTS TRIANGLE WEST BRISTOL, BS8 1EJ FORBIDDENPLANET.COM/EVENTS
A hand holds up a copy of AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD, against a green cosmic background. The book cover features a planet with an orbiting moon, seen from above through the window of a spacecraft. An Unbreakable World is a standalone novel set in the same universe as Under Fortunate Stars. An excerpt of the Big Idea post appears above the book cover: "Both of the Union Quadrant books touch on themes about storytelling, memory, and the historical record. But the thing I really wanted to explore in An Unbreakable World is the way our search for a bigger meaning often begins with our most personal choices.”
Ren holds up a copy of An Unbreakable World against a pink cosmic background. The book cover features a planet with an orbiting moon, seen from above through the window of a spacecraft.
Check out these SFF books for your TBR! Image: 10 book covers arranged in a square around the text. The books are Star Trek Picard: Second Self by Una McCormack, Hold Fast Through the Fire by K.B. Wagers, Nophek Gloss by Essa Hansen, We Who Hunt The Hollow by Kate Murray, Down in the Sea of Angels by Khan Wong, The Immortality Thief by Taran Hunt, City of Shattered Light by Claire Winn, These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs, Lady Eve’s Last Con by Rebecca Fraimow, Future’s Edge by Gareth L. Powell.
A stack of books is piled up on a wooden desk with a blue cosmic backdrop. AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD by Ren Hutchings is facing out; the cover features an image of a planet with an orbiting moon seen from above through the window of a spacecraft. Books in the stack are: These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs, Nophek Gloss by Essa Hansen, The Immortality Thief by Taran Hunt, Down in the Sea of Angels by Khan Wong, Lady Eve’s Last Con by Rebecca Fraimow, Future’s Edge by Gareth L. Powell, City of Shattered Light by Claire Winn, We Who Hunt The Hollow by Kate Murray, Star Trek Picard: Second Self by Una McCormack, Hold Fast Through the Fire by K.B. Wagers.
Mathias & Ren hold up a copy of the book An Unbreakable World, in a photo next to the cover of the music single for "You'll Know It When It's Over." Both the book cover & the music cover feature a space/planet motif. "You'll Know It When It's Over" An original song from An Unbreakable World - The Burning Hell Now streaming on Spotify, Apple & Youtube
2D book covers on a space background, surrounding the words “FALL 2025 SCIENCE FICTION TBR.” The books are the following upcoming sci-fi titles: - Local Heavens by K.M Fajardo - One Last Game by T.A. Chan - The First Thousand Trees by Premee Mohamed - Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei - Terms of Service by Ciel Pierlot - Human Scars on Planet Skin by Effie Joe Stock & Nathaniel Luscombe
A tiny stuffed narwhal sits with a purple astronaut doll, surrounded by book swag from Under Fortunate Stars
Ren holds three copies of An Unbreakable World, showing the cover to the camera. The book cover features a planet with an orbiting moon, seen from above through the window of a spacecraft.
Two strips of photobooth-style pictures show Ren unboxing a stack of copies of The Legend Liminal and holding the book up to the camera.
Ren holds up several copies of The Legend Liminal. The cover shows a sunset scene of a highway in the shape of an infinity symbol and a van with headlights on. A bright pink vaporwave sun is in the sky, and there is a lit-up motel in the background.
It's out now! 31 magical stories! My hand holding up the anthology titled "OF ENCHANTMENT, ENIGMA, AND THE INFINITE," against a purple sparkly background. The book cover features purple and gold images including moths, a crystal ball & a dragon.
Space, Vampires and Time Travel: Writing in Genre Fiction MCM Comic Con London Sat, May 24, 2025 6:00 PM - 6:45 PM Writers Block Stage Guests: Adrian Tchaikovsky Gareth L. Powell Helen Glynn Jones Ren Hutchings
AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD is available to request now on Netgalley! The cover of AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD is shown on an e-reader. The book cover features a green planet with an orbiting moon, seen from above through the window of a spacecraft.
AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD: A collage of images including a starry galaxy, a bird flying across a sunset, a sunlit path through the woods, an armillary sphere, a closeup of greenery, two people holding hands, a pair of hands holding a fern, an intricately embroidered dress, and a view out of the porthole of a space vessel.
A square collage of nine images, with the Under Fortunate Stars title text in the center: a pile of old books, a starchart, a figure holding a helmet, a technical blueprint, a spaceship seen from outside, a woman looking up at clouds, a control screen, a closeup of the definition of ‘history.’
An image of Ren holding up the hardcover and paperback editions of Under Fortunate Stars, and the same image reversed in negative on the other side of the frame, echoing the image on the UFS cover which has two mirrored spaceships in the top and bottom corners. Colourful text says “Happy Birthday Under Fortunate Stars”
Cover of Under Fortunate Stars by Ren Hutchings: two spaceships mirrored on a blue, pink and green space background
An Unbreakable World by Ren Hutchings: Preorders are 25% off at Barnes & Noble from April 23-25 with the code PREORDER25
An Unbreakable World and Under Fortunate Stars by Ren Hutchings. A venn diagram shows An Unbreakable World at the top and Under Fortunate Stars at the bottom. In the Unbreakable World slice: a revenge scheme worth risking it all, a petty thief with lost memories & a mysterious past, an isolated planet with big secrets, complicated families. In the shared center: standalone space opera, twisty plot, character-focused SF, themes of memory, choice & history, set in the same universe. In the Under Fortunate Stars slice: accidental time travel, the perils of meeting your heroes, a history nerd to the rescue, one chance to save the future.
THE LEGEND LIMINAL: A collage of images including a rearview mirror, a campfire, a motel sign, a sunset sky over a road, a “no exit” sign, a gas station in the dark, four figures silhouetted against a sky, a foreboding-looking highway, the shadow of a cat, a full moon, and a neon sign that says “think about things differently.”
Ren holds up a copy of the anthology, open to the title page of "Grey"
A copy of "Of Shadows, Stars and Sabers" an anthology edited by Jendia Gammon & Gareth L. Powell, sitting on a starry background
Ren gives a peace sign & holds up a copy of Under Fortunate Stars
Deal Report AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD By Ren Hutchings Imprint: Solaris Author of UNDER FORTUNATE STARS Ren Hutchings's AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD, a space opera set in the same universe thirty years before the voyage of the Jonah — in which a petty thief and a bounty hunter are thrown together in an improbable scheme to get rich, but become embroiled in a centuries-long political intrigue that could change the galaxy's future, to David Thomas Moore at Solaris, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2025, by Ernie Chiara at Fuse Literary (world English).