Air Cuan Dubh Drilseach
Tim Armstrong2013

Air Cuan Dubh Drilseach (On a Glittering Black Sea) is an award winning science fiction novel written in Scottish Gaelic by Tim Armstrong. Air Cuan Dubh Drilseach is the first hard science-fiction novel in Gaelic written for adults. The story combines elements of space opera, dark cyberpunk, romance and rock-band road-trip adventure. The central conceit of the novel is that in space, everyone speaks Gaelic, allowing the author to create an entirely Gaelic-speaking world for the characters. Air Cuan Dubh Drilseach won the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award in 2013.