“There’s a lot of difficulty in answering questions as to what kind of people the Krestge are because to get to know one is not to get to know all. Though the Krestge destroyed civilization on Earth, some of their descendants now live peacefully among humans, and while some humans are willing to forgive the crimes of the past, going so far as to start families with the Krestge, others see the crimes of the aliens’ forbears as unforgivable. But the deeper story is about the relationship between a mother searching for her young daughter, who is kidnapped and abused by a warlord overseeing an army of child soldiers, and the relationship between humans and their former antagonists, the four-dimensional aliens known as the Krestge. The frame of Destroyer of Light is a mystery-a search for a missing boy. Listen to a 2015 interview with Jennifer Marie Brissett about Elysium. Dick Special Citation and a finalist for the Locus and the Tiptree awards.Įlysium is set on Earth after people have been wiped out by aliens while Destroyer of Light takes readers to another planet and far into the future to meet the humans who survived Earth’s destruction. Destroyer of Light is Jennifer Marie Brissett’s long-awaited follow up to her critically acclaimed debut Elysium, winner of a Philip K.
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