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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 a free 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 free 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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Audio versions of Virga books

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I've sold the first three, which make a complete trilogy; will there be more?

Tor just informed me that MacMillan has bought the audio rights to the first three Virga books:  Sun of Suns, Queen of Candesce, and Pirate Sun.  This is fantastic news!  I'm looking forward to listening to them myself, just to get a sense of how my words and sentences roll and what sort of music they have when read by someone else.

I hope they decide to pick up the fourth contracted book, The Sunless Countries; but the first three constitute one complete plot arc--a trilogy, if you will, although not all questions raised in them are answered--and TSC is more of a stand-alone.  We shall see.  Meanwhile, I couldn't be happier.

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