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Sleeper" -- 2nd episode of Kaslo Chronicles, now online
"Sleeper," the second episode in the serialized novel, The Kaslo Chronicles, is now available for free reading online at Lightspeed Magazine.
Erm Kaslo is a hardboiled confidential operative in the far-future civilization of The Ten Thousand Worlds. In the first episode, "And Then Some," he was hired to help wealthy magnate Diomedo Obron deal with a con man, and discovered that there might be some basis to Obron's belief that the operating principle of the universe will soon switch from rationalism to magic.
Now, returning from another assignment, he gets interested when the space liner he's traveling on stops to pick up an interstellar hitchhiker who turns out to be dying of an incurable disease. And, once more, magic slips into Kaslo's life.
Erm Kaslo is a hardboiled confidential operative in the far-future civilization of The Ten Thousand Worlds. In the first episode, "And Then Some," he was hired to help wealthy magnate Diomedo Obron deal with a con man, and discovered that there might be some basis to Obron's belief that the operating principle of the universe will soon switch from rationalism to magic.
Now, returning from another assignment, he gets interested when the space liner he's traveling on stops to pick up an interstellar hitchhiker who turns out to be dying of an incurable disease. And, once more, magic slips into Kaslo's life.
Two of mine make Locus list
Two of my novelettes have made the Locus recommended reading list for 2013.
"The Ugly Duckling" is a Bradburyesque tale, inspired by The Martian Chronicles. It appeared in Old Mars , the retro-anthology, edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, of stories set in the Mars that science fiction and fantasy authors imagined before robots began to explore the surface of the red planet.
"And Then Some" originally ran in Asimov's, then was reprinted in Lightspeed. It became the first episode in a serialized novel, The Kaslo Chronicles, about Erm Kaslo, a hardboiled confidential operative in a space-opera universe whose fundamental operating principle abruptly switches from rationalism to magic. The new order is not a good fit for Kaslo, who signs on to become chief henchman to a budding wizard who's long been preparing for the big change.
Two more episodes of the Kaslo story have since appeared -- "Sleeper" and "His Elbow, Unkissed" -- and they can be read for free in the Lightspeed archives (follow the links).
"The Ugly Duckling" is a Bradburyesque tale, inspired by The Martian Chronicles. It appeared in Old Mars , the retro-anthology, edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, of stories set in the Mars that science fiction and fantasy authors imagined before robots began to explore the surface of the red planet.
"And Then Some" originally ran in Asimov's, then was reprinted in Lightspeed. It became the first episode in a serialized novel, The Kaslo Chronicles, about Erm Kaslo, a hardboiled confidential operative in a space-opera universe whose fundamental operating principle abruptly switches from rationalism to magic. The new order is not a good fit for Kaslo, who signs on to become chief henchman to a budding wizard who's long been preparing for the big change.
Two more episodes of the Kaslo story have since appeared -- "Sleeper" and "His Elbow, Unkissed" -- and they can be read for free in the Lightspeed archives (follow the links).
