WitchPrey

WitchPrey

It Started With a Simple Question: Why was Her Pillow Covered in Snow?

Thus began Aisling’s fight for survival, for she had been volunteered as a quarry in a savage game of Witch Safari.

That would be bad enough. But the organizer of the hunt was not content merely to unleash an expedition of hunters on her. Oh, no. He forced her to team up with her worst enemy.

Sapphire.

To survive, they will first have to not kill each other.

Then they will have to go back to basics. Stripped of wands, jewels, and runes, they will have to relearn how to leverage the simplest magic into something powerful.

It will not be enough against the merciless men and women who hunt them.

Sooner rather than later, they’ll need a wizard’s world of upgrades.

Fortunately, in the vast region whose population has been evicted to give the hunt its flavor, Aisling hopes to find the ordinary and odd items she needs to craft a festival of pain for those who track her.

Hoped-for acquisitions include:

An old-fashioned dentist office.

A microwave oven.

Fresh grapes.

And of course, an electrical power substation.

The predators better hurry to catch their prey, because if they don’t, and Aisling assembles her assorted trinkets.

Alas poor hunters, for they shall become the hunted.

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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