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Below is the most excellent introduction to A. A. Attanasio’s second editon of Radix, now available for purchase from Phoenix Pick. You can also download the introduction and first chapter (with illustrations!) in pdf format. Excerpted with Permission.
Originally titled Emblems and Rites, my first novel, Radix, began with an insight from one sentence in a [...]
Kalak rounded a rocky stone ridge and stumbled to a stop before the body of a dying thunderclast. The enormous stone beast lay on its side, riblike protrusions from its chest broken and cracked. The monstrosity was vaguely skeletal in shape, with unnaturally long limbs that sprouted from granite shoulders. The eyes were deep red [...]
[Excerpted from the essay "The Ethics of a Serial Killer: Dexter's Moral Character and the Justification of Murder" by Simon Riches and Craig French]
VII. Justice, Law Enforcement, and Consequentialism
It seems that Dexter values justice, albeit his own particular brand of it. Part of his moral purpose lies in picking up the slack from his colleagues [...]
Over a five day period, thanks to Mercury Retrograde Press, I will be excerpting portions of Secrets of the Sands by Leona Wisoker.
Part One is here.
Part Two is here.
Part Three is here.
Part Four is here.
They walked through hallways and around corners, turning this way and that, seeming to go in circles, until Idisio once again [...]
Over a five day period, thanks to Mercury Retrograde Press, I will be excerpting portions of Secrets of the Sands by Leona Wisoker.
Part One is here.
Part Two is here.
Part Three is here.
Part Five is here.
“Nobody knows you as a street-rat,” had been the eunuch’s first piece of advice. “Don’t act like one; nobody will peg [...]
Over a five day period, thanks to Mercury Retrograde Press, I will be excerpting portions of Secrets of the Sands by Leona Wisoker.
Part One is here.
Part Two is here.
Part Four is here.
Part Five is here.
The steward was a thin, sharp-faced man of no readily-apparent bloodline and a sour demeanor. He stared at Idisio as if [...]
Over a five day period, thanks to Mercury Retrograde Press, I will be excerpting portions of Secrets of the Sands by Leona Wisoker.
Part One is here.
Part Three is here.
Part Four is here.
Part Five is here.
Finally they stopped in front of a small grey door. Two guards with gold and silver braids looped on their sleeves [...]
Over a five day period, thanks to Mercury Retrograde Press, I will be excerpting portions of Secrets of the Sands by Leona Wisoker.
Part Two is here.
Part Three is here.
Part Four is here.
Part Five is here.
Chapter One
Hee-ay, hee-ay: the cry of the water-seller in the broad and the narrow places; shass-shass-shass, the warning [...]
Over a five day period,thanks to Angry Robot Books, I will be excerpting portions of Triumff: Her Majesty’s Hero by Dan Abnett.
Part One is here.
Part Two is here.
Part Three is here.
Part Four is here.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Sir Rupert Triumff. Adventurer. Fighter. Drinker. Saviour? Pratchett goes swashbuckling in the hotly anticipated original fiction debut of the multi-million [...]
Over a five day period,thanks to Angry Robot Books, I will be excerpting portions of Triumff: Her Majesty’s Hero by Dan Abnett.
Part One is here.
Part Two is here.
Part Three is here.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Sir Rupert Triumff. Adventurer. Fighter. Drinker. Saviour? Pratchett goes swashbuckling in the hotly anticipated original fiction debut of the multi-million selling Warhammer star. [...]
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