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I've made my first novel, Ventus, available as a free download, as well as excerpts from two of the Virga books. I am looking forward to putting up a number of short stories in the near future.

Complete novel: Ventus

To celebrate the August, 2007 publication of Queen of Candesce, I decided to re-release my first novel as an eBook. You can download it from this page. Ventus was first published by Tor Books in 2000, and and you can still buy it; to everyone who would just like to sample my work, I hope you enjoy this version.

I've released this book under a Creative Commons license, which means you can read it and distribute it freely, but not make derivative works or sell it.

Book Excerpts: Sun of Suns and Pirate Sun

I've made large tracts of these two Virga books available. If you want to find out what the Virga universe is all about, you can check it out here:

Short Stories

I'll be adding new stories here periodically. First of all, you can try my Aurora-award nominated short story "Hopscotch." The year this was nominated, another of my stories was also nominated: "The Toy Mill," which I wrote with David Nickle. "The Toy Mill" won the award; but I've always been fond of "Hopscotch." Here it is, in its entirety excerpted from my collection The Engine of Recall.

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Download the Free Sun of Suns Audiobook from Audible.com

This offer's good until June 12

Also available in presentation mode…

To promote the upcoming release of The Sunless Countries, we've decided to offer the Sun of Suns audiobook for free download. There's a discussion about it going on right now at Tor.com; for the download itself, go to the Audible.com site.

Now, since I'm the author anything I say about the quality of the story itself is obviously biased; but I can say without reservation that the reader, Joyce Irvine, does an excellent job with my material. If there's flaws in my prose she easily talks around them, and she's a great choice for the material. (And if you like how she does this, you should try her dry and distantly amused rendition of Queen of Candesce!)

All of the Virga books are available in audiobook format; The Sunless Countries will be as well. And don't forget that Metatropolis, currently nominated for a Hugo Award, is also available from Audible.com

Buy a Limited Edition Signed Poster of The Books of Virga Cover

Available now and for a limited time, Dave Seeley is selling signed prints of his wondrous cover for The Books of Virga. Needless to say I have one myself, and it's quite striking, with very deep colours and dark blacks. And yes, the expression on Venera's face is priceless.

Dave is selling these prints over at his online store. As you'll see when you get there, he's got a world of other great art for sale as well. I'd been hoping to get Dave to do some cover art for me for years, and was delighted last fall when this opportunity came up. I think he's captured the madcap pace of Sun of Suns as well as the conniving personality of Venera Fanning quite well.

And yeah, I want one of those racing bikes.

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