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	The Outside (The Outside, #1) 3.77 avg rating — 3,124 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death (Machine of Death, #2) by Ryan North (Goodreads Author), Matthew Bennardo (Goodreads Author) (Editor), David Malki (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.11 avg rating — 2,095 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fallen (The Outside, #2) 3.83 avg rating — 665 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Infinite (The Outside #3) 4.23 avg rating — 368 ratings — published 2023 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Future Lovecraft by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Paula R. Stiles (Editor), Nick Mamatas 3.31 avg rating — 332 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uncanny Magazine Issue 32: January/February 2020 by Lynne M. Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael Damian Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Chimedum Ohaegbu (Editor) 3.90 avg rating — 263 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scrape of Tooth and Bone 3.97 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Monsters In My Mind 4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Resurrections 4.38 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Million-Year Elegies it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS

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Hi all,

I am SO excited to finally announce my next novel, IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS, which is coming out with Tachyon Books in spring 2026.

Here’s the Publishers Marketplace announcement that just went live today:

Publishers Marketplace Deal Report Ignore All Previous Instructions By Ada Hoffmann Imprint: Tachyon Publications, Recorded Books Author of THE OUTSIDE Ada Hoffmann's IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS, a light sci-fi novel pitched as a queer coming-of-age with an autistic main character and a cutting satire about AI in publishing, conglomeration of corporate ownership in media, and censorship and book banning, by Jacob Weisman at Tachyon Publications, with Jaymee Goh editing, for publication in spring 2026, by Hannah Bowman at Liza Dawson Associates. Audo rights to Brian Sweany at Recorded Books. Fiction: Sci-Fi/Fantasy April 8, 2025

IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS is a book incredibly close to my heart, and also very timely in more than one way – and ever since I

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Ada Hoffmann finished reading Rosalind's Siblings by Bogi Takács (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Ada Hoffmann finished reading We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Ada Hoffmann rated a book really liked it Be the Sea by Clara Ward (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Ada Hoffmann rated a book it was ok Momo Arashima Steals the Sword of the Wind (Momo Arashima #1) by Misa Sugiura (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Ada Hoffmann rated a book really liked it Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“SIR, Enga said presently, I SHOT HER. BUT YASIRA SHOUTED AT YOU AS THOUGH YOU DID. “Yes, Enga. That’s called the chain of command.” I BROKE PART OF MY ARM SAVING THE HUONGS, AND THEY HAVE BEEN THROWING THEMSELVES AT YOU AS THOUGH YOU DID. IS THAT THE CHAIN OF COMMAND? WHY CAN’T I HAVE A HUONG?”
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“Well, it did what Outside usually did in stories. Showed up. Violated all the known laws of physics. Killed some people and drove the rest mad.”
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“Universal acceptance can exist, I think, only as a failure of the imagination.”
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2nd Quarter 2021 - SciFi #1

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, 496p

6 votes, 28.6%

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, 304p

6 votes, 28.6%

Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler, 306p

2 votes, 9.5%

Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters by Aimee Ogden, 112p

2 votes, 9.5%

The Rig by Roger Levy, 618p

1 vote, 4.8%

The Outside by Ada Hoffmann, 401p

1 vote, 4.8%

In the Quick by Kate Hope Day, 272p

1 vote, 4.8%

The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard, 169p

1 vote, 4.8%

The End of October by Lawrence Wright, 400p

1 vote, 4.8%

Forget Me Not by Alexandra Oliva, 352p

0 votes, 0.0%

The Last Watch by J.S. Dewes, 480p

0 votes, 0.0%

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