THE FOURTH CONSORT by Edward Ashton received a starred review from Library Journal. Marlene Harris writes: “This is a deep surprise of a story as it contemplates the perils and pitfalls of communication and the difficulty of reaching anything like understanding with a species with which one shares few if any frames of reference…Readers who found the struggle to communicate in Ray Nayler’s THE MOUNTAIN IN THE SEA will enjoy the equally fraught miscommunications between the minarchs, the ‘stickmen,’ and the humans, while fans of the classic STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION episode ‘Darmok’ will find this to be a familiar and similarly complex and heartbreaking tale.” St. Martin’s Press will publish the book on February 25, 2025.