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Sorcery for Assassination? Wouldn't That Be Swell?

For Aisling and Virgil, the potential for magical murder becomes clear when the FBI brings them a mysterious death that can't be a killing.

But it can't be natural causes, either.

The deeper they probe the more complicated the case. A Magician is running a murder-for-hire service. And he seems to own the key to decrypting all the secrets roaming the web.

Is the Magician a guy with breakthrough new tech? Or a woman with breakthrough new sorcery?

Either way, Aisling will have to hurry to unravel the truth, because the problem has just escalated:

The Magician has issued a contract on Virgil Maxwell.

Could they solve the case more quickly if Virgil died?

Would it help if the sorceress assassin sent to snuff the physicist was forced to run, with no choice but to team up with them?

But forget these small matters. The Magician has unwittingly targeted a secret coven of witches for his next victims--witches who are perfectly able to blow Manhattan apart fighting back.

Can a sorceress and a scientist stop the battle before it starts?

Or will a magical war come into the open and reveal the world of sorcery so long hidden from view?

Marc Stiegler

In the age of the dinosaurs, which is to say, in the previous century during the 80s and 90s, I was a science fiction author. During that brief and happy interlude, among other things I wrote Valentina which became a finalist for the Hugo Award, David's Sling which became a finalist for the Prometheus Award, and The Gentle Seduction which was considered by some founders of the field of nanotech to be the best story ever written about the consequences of their work.

Much of that writing was done during interludes between working at and managing various Silicon Valley startup and software companies. Then disaster struck: I got a normal job as a research scientist. I spent all my words writing tech reports and academic journal articles. No strength remained at the end of the day for sf.

But that is all in the past. Now, a new era of radicalized politics is upon us, an era that needs a new kind of author: one who can, with a light and hopefully humorous touch, explore through near-future sf the consequences of these competing versions of America. In this fire was forged my latest work, the BrainTrust series. At the time of this writing, each of the first four books of the series has been nominated for the Prometheus Award in the year of its publication, and book five is about to launch. Please enjoy.

--marcs

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