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Edited to Add: THE BREATH OF HEAVEN is
currently free on kindle. If anyone would like to snag a complimentary copy, now's your chance.
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This sampler brings together three stories found in other collections.
In
Knowing Neither Kin Nor Foe, the arthropodic Kitjaya is a solo mind, bereft of telepathic communication with her sib-group and destined to protect her people from a malevolent destroyer. But as the day of reckoning approaches, she finds herself unwilling to play out the role expected by her society.
In
The Breath of Heaven, the sentient information system SACIA struggles to behave ethically in the aftermath of mass murder.
In the Halls of the Sky-Palace tells the story of young Aesva, the last living bearer of the Gift in the Sky-King's palace. She must unravel the mysterious living death that has overcome the king's dancers.