Rat

by Andy Weir

Author’s Note: This was a short story I wrote about a D&D character I had. Though the story stands on its own merit (I hope), it takes place within a detailed genre that is wholly unexplained. Hopefully you will enjoy it without the accompanying exposition that would usually be worked in to such a story.

31 pages, ebook

About the author

ANDY WEIR built a career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, THE MARTIAN, allowed him to live out his dream of writing fulltime. He is a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of subjects such as relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight. He also mixes a mean cocktail. He lives in California. Andy’s next book, ARTEMIS, is available now.

Reviews

[Maggie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Apparently this is a story Weir wrote for a role playing game. Not bad, but slightly predictable.

You can read it online here:
http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/rat....

[Courtney]

Read as D&D writing, not bad, just not what I wanted to read

Haha theives’ cant

[Ben · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great! It had the same throwback "twist" to the start of the story as many of Weir's other short stories had. Imagery was vivid and as someone who enjoys this theme, I was a big fan.