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THE LATEST!
Last Updated in April 2008! ! But Things are speeding up!
EMISSARIES FROM THE DEAD (Harper Collins Eos) is now in stores! This is my fifth
full-length novel (sixth if you count the paste-up VOSSOFF AND NIMMITZ), and
(again, if you don't count VOSSOFF AND NIMMITZ,) the first set in a world of my own
creation, with no tie-in to media figures created by others.
EMISSARIES takes place in the same far-future universe as the Hugo and Nebula
nominee "The Funeral March of the Marionettes" and the Nebula nominee "The Tangled
Strings of the Marionettes," and stars Andrea Cort, the profoundly damaged investigator
who figured in the novella "Unseen Demons." There have been a pair of suspicious
deaths on space station One One One, where software intelligences known as the
AIsource have turned the usual model for outer-space habitats literally upside down.
Before long, Andrea learns that she might not even be able to trust the human beings
around her, as she finds herself the next target of the unknown killer. Surrounded by lies,
corruption, and madness, Andrea must brave forces far more powerful than herself, to
uncover the secret that may provide a clue to the tragedies of her own past. That's
EMISSARIES FROM THE DEAD, first of a new series.
I have completed rewrites on the immediate sequel, THE THIRD CLAW OF GOD, in which Andrea becomes embroiled in another murder mystery, this one involving questions of terrorism, ethics, sex, and free will. Dejah Shapiro, familiar as an ongoing character in the Vossoff and Nimmitz series, plays a substantial role. Expect that from Harper Collins Eos in March 2009.
I have also completed the project previously known as Project F, now revealed as FAKE ALIBIS, by Frank Sibila, myself, and Kathie Huddleston, a fact-based comic novel of an internet service that will provide you with the titular commodity…for a price. Expect that from Ben Bella Books in April 2009.
My oft-delayed horror novella, THE SHALLOW END OF THE POOL, is a grisly
examination of one of those nasty dysfunctional families where estranged parents enlist
the kids in their personal warfare. Can you spell Gladiators? The standalone book will be
coming out from Creeping Hemlock Press very shortly.
I have also sold a novelette, “Among the Tchi,” the dilemma of a hapless human novelist
trapped in a literary seminar by some very persnickety aliens. The story is connected to
the Andrea Cort universe, too! Expect that to show up in ANALOG within the next year.
Other short fiction to look out for includes “After the Ice,” a 500-word zombie story in the flash-fiction anthology BITS OF THE DEAD. In other zombie-related news, my short story “Dead Like Me” will soon be reprinted in the anthology THE LIVING DEAD, edited by John Joseph Adams and published by Nightshade Books.
Two top-secret projects too big to discuss at the moment follow the already-unveiled Project F into mysterious-land! What are ‘Project Z’ and the even bigger ‘Project D’? Ooooh! Just wait til you find out!
I remain the main book reviewer for SCI FI magazine, appearing bi-monthly. I also continue writing between two and ten reviews a month for the on-line publication SCIENCE FICTION WEEKLY.
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