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Ventus - Complete novel

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:

Major Foresight Project: Crisis in Zefra

In spring 2005, the Directorate of Land Strategic Concepts of National Defense Canada (that is to say, the army) hired me to write a dramatized future military scenario. The book-length work, Crisis in Zefra, was set in a mythical African city-state, about 20 years in the future, and concerned a group of Canadian peacekeepers who are trying to ready the city for its first democratic vote while fighting an insurgency. The project ran to 27,000 words and was published by the army as a bound paperback book.

If you'd like to read Crisis in Zefra, you can download it in PDF form.

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.

Hopscotch

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Limited edition print of The Books of Virga

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This is Dave Seeley's cover art for my book club edition. You can own a signed copy

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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Virga sidebar, etc.

Posted by Jason M. Robertson at Apr 01, 2009 03:03 PM

Just an FYI, it looks like the SFBC Virga entry you've linked to via the side is session dependent, so clicking on it gives someone without an active login to their system an error. Possibly even anyone without your active login.

On a complete tangent, do you know when you expect to have your Minicon 44 schedule? I'm weighing trying to make Saturday and I'd hate for that to end up being a day without an autographing availability! :)

Link error and Minicon

Posted by Karl Schroeder at Apr 02, 2009 05:35 AM

Thanks for alerting me to that link! I'll fix it ASAP.

As to Minicon, I don't have my schedule yet, but will be posting it the moment I have it. Meanwhile, you should certainly show up for Saturday because I will at least be doing panels (although I expect a kaffeeklatsch and/or signing that day), so if you want something signed feel free to approach me before or after one of my panels--or catch me in the halls, or the dealer's room etc. No need to be formal about this.

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