Posts Tagged ‘novel’
Sample Chapter: Discoveries
The next morning, they both braced themselves for awkward questions, challenges about their precipitous exit, but they encountered none, principally because the rest of the household slept late into the morning and emerged, when they finally emerged, in slight and fragile capacity. The day after the ball was as quiet in the manor as they…
Read MoreSample Chapter: The Dinner
Upon entering the grand foyer of the house, Lilani spoke a series of quick orders to the butler in Faenish, which he received with nothing more than a stiff bow, and then he turned to address Josheb, who despite himself was still staring at the towering luxury around him. “Josheb, yes?” “Yes,” said Josheb, tearing…
Read MoreThe Ride
An excerpt from the new novel, Outsiders, by William Collier It is one of those peculiarities of military air travel that, in a cargo aircraft, one often sits with one’s back to the side bulkhead, facing perpendicular to the aircraft’s direction of travel, such that as it accelerates or decelerates, one is thrown sideways into…
Read MoreThe Mission
An excerpt from the new novel, Outsiders, by William Collier Bulbous, faceted eyes, blown wildly out of proportion, huge, reflecting an oily rainbow of green, orange, and brown hues, leaving room only for the tiniest bit of head to support them—just enough head to attach also what it had in place of a mouth: this…
Read MoreOutsiders, a novel
A special forces team, on what should have been a simple, uncontested operation to extract an unimportant source from neutral territory, is ambushed during exfil and nearly wiped out. A graduate student of machine learning and AI discovers an artificial neural network operating on the Internet, the likes of which no one has ever conceived.…
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