Preview: Second Shift – Kit Anderson Returns to Avery Hill Publishing in 2025 with a Sci-Fi Graphic Novel

Avery Hill have made their first announcement about their 2025 line-up. Details on Second Shift by Kit Anderson below.

FIRST LOOK: Avery Hill Publishing is proud to announce a new graphic novel for spring 2025:

Second Shift  by Kit Anderson!

Co-Publisher and Commissioning Editor Ricky Miller says:

“We’re delighted to continue our relationship with the amazing Kit Anderson with this brilliant, cerebral sci-fi book.
Kit and I have geeked out in the past on our shared love of this genre and I’m so excited that Kit has chosen this story for her first long-form graphic novel. Kit’s book brings something new to the genre as well as honouring its history, with a story rooted in character and relationships, that explores what it means to be human in an alien landscape amidst AI and advanced technology.”

Second Shift

by Kit Anderson

Out 5th June 2025
140 pages, paperback, full colour throughout, 160 x 220mm

Birdie Doran’s life on the station is the same routine every day… until she starts finding secrets in this science fiction graphic novel.

From the time when the station wakes her up, Birdie Doran is on the clock. It’s just her and one or two others on Terracorp’s isolated outpost, processing comets. So she slips into virtual reality, with the station creating adventures for her as she does repairs, routine maintenance, and checks the status on all the systems.

But when Birdie discovers another abandoned station just within walking distance of her own, she begins to question her isolation, and her own memories of what her job- and her life—really is. And at every turn, she starts finding the things the station has been hiding from her.

Ignatz Award-winning author Kit Anderson presents a psychological science fiction exploration of the lines between reality inside and outside the mind.

— Broken Frontier Staff