The Hotel Under the Sand - Softcover

Kage Baker is the author of The Company novels, her series of immortal, time-traveling cyborgs, including In the Garden of Iden, Mendoza in Hollywood, and The Sons of Heaven. Baker received the Nebula and Theodore Sturgeon awards. She was passionately involved in the theater as an actor, director, playwright, and teacher of Elizabethan English as a second language, which she often used for research in her novels.

Praise for The Hotel Under the Sand

Wow! I read The Hotel Under the Sand with delight and joy. It’s wonderful, wacky and spooky, and serious and FUN. It also strikes me as utterly original (which is quite rare ”
Diana Wynne Jones, author of Howl’s Moving Castle

“Full of humor and happiness, The Hotel Under the Sand was a pure joy to read . . . A comfort book that makes you feel good about yourself and universe on every page? Yep, this is it.”
―The Little Red Reviewer

“Possibly one of the sweetest, funnest, most original chapter books I've ever read.”
―We Be Reading

Kage Baker’s The Hotel Under the Sand will grab you on page one and never let you go until you finish reading and beg for more.”
Richard A. Lupoff, author of Marblehead

I read it all in one sitting, enjoying the characters and the well-crafted plot very much, and want to read it soon to my granddaughters. Kage Baker used the fantasy structure with a light touch, reassuring but exciting...”
Cecilia Holland, author of Until the Sun Falls

...charming...Baker’s first book for younger readers is a delight.”
Denver Post

...skillfully written....”
Publishers Weekly

Kage Baker is already well-known among adult readers for her science-fiction series The Company, but her new children’s book The Hotel Under the Sand is bound to win her plenty of new readers among the younger set.”
Omivoracious.com

Refreshingly original.... Although Baker is an established author of science fiction and fantasy for adults, this novel is written so naturally that it is difficult to believe
it is her debut for younger readers.”
VOYA Library Journal

There are few books that I immediately want to press into the hands of other readers the instant I turn the last page. My copy of Hotel will be one that I hand to my daughter in a few years. First, however, I’m going to force it on everybody I know.”
Locus

It’s exciting to come upon a book that serves not only as a great story to share with your kids, but one that has some undeniably unusual and geeky features.”
Wired.com

...a strangely delightful story.”
Charlotte’s Library

The Hotel Under the Sand is the kind of book that you resolve to send to your nieces and nephews even before you have finished the first page.”
Reading the Leaves

I just wanted more!”
Fantasy Book Critic

I would strongly recommend it for fans of Roald Dahl and readers who are still young at heart.”
SF Crowsnest