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David Walton
Biography
David Walton is the author of Quintessence (Tor Books, 2013) and its sequel, Quintessence Sky. His first novel, Terminal Mind, won the Philip K. Dick Award in 2009. He lives near Philadelphia with his wife, seven children, and three hamsters. By day, he works on classified defense technology, which not even the hamsters are allowed to know about. Since he doesn't actually have time to write, he trained the hamsters to do it for him, with a combination of Morse clicks on their drinking bottle and cleverly-arranged pellets. David's fiction explores themes that skirt the edges of science and religion, such as human origins, the nature of truth, the certainty of death, and the nature of the soul.
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Quintessence Sky
by David Walton
Price:
$9.99 USD.
Words: 107,990.
Language:
English.
Published: October 17, 2013
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Categories:
Fiction » Fantasy » Historical, Fiction » Science fiction » Steampunk & retropunk
Quintessence Sky continues the story begun with Quintessence (Tor Books, 2013). At the edge of the flat Earth, a strange fire burns in the sky, weakening the power of the island and sparking war between human and manticore. Deep in the mountains, an age-old cycle has been interrupted, forcing the colonists to find and reverse it or die.