At OwlCrate, we work with fantastic authors whose books we feature as special or limited editions. The books featured in our monthly and quarterly boxes are always new releases from a range of diverse authors.
This article is a spotlight on Mira Grant, the author behind the book in our May 2025 Quarterly Sci-Fi box. Read on to find out more about her!
ABOUT MIRA GRANT
Seanan McGuire (pen name Mira Grant) was born and raised in California and to this day resides there. Her debut novel, Feed, blends horror and sci-fi and was published in 2010. As Mira Grant she tends to write sci-fi horror novels and to to date she has has won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2010 and the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 2017. She has also been nominated for Multiple Hugo, Shirley Jackson, and World Fantasy Awards, among others.
BOOKS BY MIRA GRANT
To date, Mira Grant has written more than 20 books across two series with some standalones and short fiction novels. She mostly writes sci-fi books with some horror aspects to them. Her series include Newsflesh and Parasitology, which are both trilogies. She has also written many novels under the names Seanan McGuire and A. Deborah Baker.
Feed
(Newsflesh #1)
“The difference between the truth and a lie is that
both of them can hurt, but only one will take the
time to heal you afterward.”
Genre: Post Apocalyptic Sci-Fi
Page count: 599
Published: April 2010
Into the Drowning Deep
(Rolling in the Deep #1)
“Humanity was cruel, and if you were prepared to try
to find a bottom to that cruelty, you had best
be prepared for a long, long fall."
Genre: Queer Sci-Fi
Page count: 448
Published: November 2017
Parasite
(Parasitology #1)
“Sometimes humanity is the reason we
can't have nice things."
Genre: Science Fiction
Page count: 504
Published: October 2013
OwlCrate Editions Of Books By Mira Grant
OVERGROWTH
Overgrowth by Mira Grant was our May 2025 ‘Better Beware’ Quarterly Sci-Fi book choice. This book is equal parts horror.
Since she was three years old, Stasia has known that she isn’t a human, but an alien in disguise. She has spent decades warning anyone who would listen that the armada that left her on Earth is coming for her. No one has believed her. Now, with an alien signal from the stars being broadcast around the world, humanity is finally starting to realize that it's already been warned, and the invasion has already begun.
Features for this OwlCrate Edition:
- Exclusive redesigned dust jacket by @dkaism
- Reversible dust jacket designed by @sylvainsarrailh
- Full color printed and foiled hardcover case designed by @tropicalgloom
- Foiled end pages designed by @fran_hs_art
- Stenciled edges designed by @ tropicalgloom
- Digital author signature on a page designed by @stubbornpagemage
- Author letter bound into the book
- Ribbon bookmark
- Book size: 5.5” x 8.5”
“That’s the trouble with people. You can never tell what’s happening inside them.”
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