Today, Tor.com is featuring a long excerpt from LOW CHICAGO, the Wild Cards novel out in June. The stripey fellow on the featured image is my Wild Cards joker-ace Khan, and he appears in the excerpt (which is the interstitial for the novel, written by John Joseph Miller.)
It’s time-travel story, so you can probably guess from Khan’s attire in which period of Chicago history he finds himself after the events in the excerpt. I hope you give the novel a shot when it’s out because I really liked writing that particular novella, and I think it turned out pretty well.
(LOW CHICAGO will be released on June 12.)
Finished reading the Frontline series…I really enjoyed it. As a veteran, I appreciate the fidelity of detail you captured…it’s obvious you are a veteran yourself…Grayson shares several insights that only a veteran would know…his tenor is genuine…so with all that said, when are you going to get off your butt and continue this story? I want to see an end to the Lankies. Our heros are not quitters…and it’s about time that the biosciences develop a targeted virus that incapacitates the Lankies. There is so much more to this universe, and in particular this battle…I could see it beginning with a young pothead grabbing a quick cup of coffee in Vermont and randomly meeting a retired Colonel Greyson serving up the best breakfast in town…”Are you THE Colonel Grayson…?” Please just write another book! Thanks for the great entertainment.
Markos: Allan Cole, here. Co-author of the Sten series. Just finished your Fields Of Fire series. Was hooked on the first book and binged on all six. Just got the two related novellas, which I’m looking forward to reading. Anyway, I just wanted to drop a line to say this is the best clotting military science fiction series that I have read for a very long time. And as a whole, I think the series is a major accomplishment and contribution to the genre, which is mostly of the Tom Clancy school of drakh, in which all the characterization goes into the weapons, but not the people. Keep up the great work. And thanks for standing up to the SFWA right wingers. – AC
Well blow me mind – the co-author of the STEN series – high praise indeed. I picked up a copy of STEN back in the 1980s – fond memories of reading that book and the others on various Marine Corps deployments and watch standing during the 1980s and early 1990s. A series of books I passed down to my sons (and a daughter) over the years.
Markos: Allan Cole, here. Just finished your Fields Of Fire series. Was hooked on the first book and binged on all six. Just got the two related novellas, which I’m looking forward to reading. Anyway, I just wanted to drop a line to say this is the best clotting military science fiction series that I have read for a very long time. And as a whole, I think the series is a major accomplishment and contribution to the genre, which is mostly of the Tom Clancy school of drakh, in which all the characterization goes into the weapons, but not the people. Keep up the great work. And thanks for standing up to the SFWA right wingers. – AC