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  • Published: 20 April 2027
  • ISBN: 9798217113316
  • Imprint: Dutton
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 704
  • RRP: $32.99

Adaptation: The Complete Series



A bold science-fiction thriller duology reissue from New York Times bestselling author Malinda Lo. Perfect for fans of The X-Files and Stranger Things.

Reese can’t remember anything from the time between the accident and the day she woke up almost a month later. She only knows one thing: she’s different now.

Across North America, flocks of birds hurl themselves into airplanes, causing at least a dozen to crash and killing thousands of people. Fearing terrorism, the United States government grounds all flights, leaving millions of travelers stranded.

Reese and her debate team partner, and longtime crush, David are in Arizona when it happens and decide to drive back home to San Francisco. But on their way, along a stretch of empty highway at night in the middle of Nevada, a bird flies into their headlights, and the car flips. When they wake up in a military hospital, the doctor won’t tell them what happened, where they are—or how they’ve been miraculously healed.

Things become even stranger when Reese returns home. San Francisco feels like a different place with police enforcing curfew, hazmat teams collecting dead birds, and a strange presence that seems to be following her. When Reese unexpectedly collides with the beautiful Amber Gray, her search for the truth is forced in an entirely new direction—and threatens to expose a vast global conspiracy that the government has worked for decades to keep secret.

  • Published: 20 April 2027
  • ISBN: 9798217113316
  • Imprint: Dutton
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 704
  • RRP: $32.99

About the author

Malinda Lo

Malinda Lo is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels, including most recently A Scatter of Light. Her novel Last Night at the Telegraph Club won the National Book Award, the Stonewall Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, a Michael L. Printz Honor, and was an LA Times Book Prize finalist. Kirkus Reviews hailed it as one of the best books of the 21st century so far. 
 
In addition to her work as an author, Malinda advocates for the First-Amendment rights of her fellow writers. She has been a vocal member of the Mass Freedom to Read coalition, which successfully supported the passage of An Act Regarding Free Expression in Massachusetts, and she has been a co-plaintiff in federal lawsuits in Iowa and Idaho that challenge statewide laws that lead to censorship.
 
Born in Guangzhou, China, Malinda immigrated to the United States as a child with her family, and grew up near Boulder, Colorado. She now lives in Massachusetts with her wife and their dog.

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Praise for Adaptation: The Complete Series


Praise for the Adaptation Duology

Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award
A Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year
A Top 10 Selection of the Rainbow List

“Fast-paced and thoroughly engaging, with very effective stakes-raising and threat levels, this is a thrilling read.” —NPR

“This novel takes off like a shot. … Lo’s writing sparkles throughout.” —Publishers Weekly

“Reese and David find themselves caught in a web of conspiracies that shatter her world but would do the X-Files proud.” —Booklist

“Lo’s thriller, a fresh take on classic sci-fi tropes, matches quick plot turns with thoughtful exploration of Reese’s hesitantly emerging bisexuality in a subtle, yet powerful, play on the idea of being alien.” —School Library Journal

“Lo invokes a paranoid X-Files sensibility here, layering conspiracy atop conspiracy and balancing ambitious twists with nuanced relationships. A satisfying twist on classic alien tropes.” —The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books