Panacea (54 page)
Authors: F. Paul Wilson
Another subtext running here â¦
“You're not going to start growing funny plants, are you?”
She laughed. “No. But someone is going to be sending me a dose every now and then.”
“And you're going to use it?”
“I'm sure as hell not throwing it away.”
“You'll have to be very careful.”
“No worry there. What about you? Any plans?”
“Stahlman wants to keep me on retainer. He's always had irons in dozens of fires, and now he's revving back into high gear. So I suppose I'll be doing my usualâa little this, a little that.”
And a lot of watching your back.
“Did he mention his idea to you?”
“About panacea-like stories and hunting them down? Crazy, huh?”
“Totally. But⦔
Uh-oh.
“But what?”
“Remember the first part of that Chinese curse you mentioned?”
“âMay you live in interesting times'?”
“That's the one.” She locked her blue gaze onto him. “Seems to me it doesn't always have to be a curse.”
“No ⦠no, it doesn't.”
Not at all.
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THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE WORLD
The preponderance of my work deals with a history of the world that remains undiscovered, unexplored, and unknown to most of humanity. Some of this secret history has been revealed in the Adversary Cycle, some in the Repairman Jack novels, and bits and pieces in other, seemingly unconnected works. Taken together, even these millions of words barely scratch the surface of what has been going on behind the scenes, hidden from the workaday world. I've listed them below in chronological order. (NB: “Year Zero” is the end of civilization as we know it; “Year Zero Minus One” is the year preceding it, etc.)
Panacea
is part of the Secret History.
THE PAST
“Demonsong” (prehistory)
“The Compendium of Srem” (1498)
“Aryans and Absinthe”
*
(1923â1924)
Black Wind
(1926â1945)
The Keep
(1941)
Reborn
(FebruaryâMarch 1968)
“Dat Tay Vao”
**
(March 1968)
Jack: Secret Histories
(1983)
Jack: Secret Circles
(1983)
Jack: Secret Vengeance
(1983)
“Faces”
*
(1988)
Cold City
(1990)
Dark City
(1991)
Fear City
(1993)
YEAR ZERO MINUS THREE
Sibs
(February)
The Tomb
(summer)
“The Barrens”
*
(ends in September)
“A Day in the Life”
*
(October)
“The Long Way Home”
**
Legacies
(December)
YEAR ZERO MINUS TWO
“Interlude at Duane's”
â
(April)
Conspiracies
(April) (includes “Home Repairs”
â
)
All the Rage
(May) (includes “The Last Rakosh”
â
)
Hosts
(June)
The Haunted Air
(August)
Gateways
(September)
Crisscross
(November)
Infernal
(December)
YEAR ZERO MINUS ONE
Harbingers
(January)
“Infernal Night”
â¡
(with Heather Graham)
Bloodline
(April)
Panacea
(April)
By the Sword
(May)
Ground Zero
(July)
The Touch
(ends in August)
The Peabody-Ozymandias Traveling Circus & Oddity Emporium
(ends in September)
“Tenants”
*
YEAR ZERO
“Pelts”
*
Reprisal
(ends in February)
Fatal Error
(February) (includes “The Wringer”
**
)
The Dark at the End
(March)
Nightworld
(May)
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available in
Aftershock & Others
**
available in the 2009 reissue of
The Touch
*
available in
The Barrens and Others
**
available in
Quick FixesâTales of Repairman Jack
â
available in
Aftershock & Others
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available in
Face Off
*
available in
The Barrens and Others
**
available in
Quick FixesâTales of Repairman Jack
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The Tomb
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Conspiracies
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All the Rage
/
Hosts
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The Haunted Air
/
Gateways
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Crisscross
/
Infernal
/
Harbingers
/
Bloodline
/
By the Sword
/
Ground Zero
/
Fatal Error
/
The Dark at the End
/
Nightworld
The Teen Trilogy
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Jack: Secret Histories
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Jack: Secret Circles
/
Jack: Secret Vengeance
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The Keep
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The Tomb
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The Touch
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Reborn
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Reprisal
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Nightworld
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“The Secret History of the World”
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New York Times
bestselling author of the Repairman Jack novels, lives in Wall, New Jersey. In 2008, he won the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. You can sign up for email updates
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