Phoenix Pick's free ebook for September is A. A. Attanasio's 'In Other Worlds.' This is the second book in the highly acclaimed Radix Tetrad though it stands alone and is NOT a sequel.
Quote:
Schirmer spontaneously transforms into light.
Then, 130 billion years later, when all of spacetime is collapsing into
the vast nothingness of the cosmic black hole, Carl Schirmer is remade
from the remnants of his light. He is reborn in time’s last world, the
strangest of all—the Werld.
There, Carl discovers the Foke, nomadic humans who travel among the
floating islands of the Werld. Among them he finds the beautiful Evoë, and
their life together is blissful in this kingdom that knows no aging or
disease. But it is cut brutally short when Evoë is captured by the zotl, a
spidery intelligence who hunt the Foke and eat them in an excruciating
fashion. In order to save her life, Carl must return to Earth—130 billion
years earlier—where he is shocked to discover that the Earth he’s come
back to is not the one he left.
Can he meet the harsh demands of his task before the zotl find him and
begin ravishing the Earth?
“Richly imagined and crafted...a compelling and often brilliant
novel”—Publishers Weekly
“Brilliant...exuberantly entertaining”—Library Journal
“A dimension-spanning adventure that combines elements of hard science,
classic SF plotting, and derring-do with a timeless love story.”—The Houston Post
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The Coupon code for September (good from now through September 30th) is 9991484 and the link, as usual, is
www.PPickings.com.
No extras this month, as they are at Chicon.