The Transmigration of Souls (56 page)
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Authors: William Barton
Tags: #science fiction, #the Multiverse, #William Barton, #God
Behind them, hanging like a tired old moon in the empty sky, leaching back into the infinite reaches of the Multiverse, the man in the cheap gray suit wondered, for just a moment, what it would have been like to go along with them. Splendid freedom.
Paradise lost, never to be regained.
Over his shoulder, the living spirit of Dylan Thomas whispered mournfully in his ear: “Dead men naked, they shall be one with the man in the wind and the west moon. Though lovers be lost, love shall not, and death shall have no dominion.”
True enough, Dale Millikan thought.
And returned to the job of Creation.
eBooks to Come
What follows is a list of prospective eBook publications, a mix of reprint and new. The pricing schema for them is simple. Novellas, averaging 100 – 150 pages in length, will be $2.99. Full-length novels (usually more than 400 pages) will typically carry the original mass-market paperback cover price, for reprints, or $9.99 for new ones. Collections of short fiction will be priced according to length, somewhere in between. I intend to stick to that, come Hell or high inflation.
The Starover Universe
Hunting On Kunderer
, 1972 reprint novella.
A Plague of All Cowards,
1976 reprint novella.
This Dog/Rat World,
unpublished 1978 novella.
Acts of Conscience,
1997 reprint novel.
A Last War for the Oriflamme,
new novella.
Loci of the Starover Universe,
new nonfiction.
The Portmanteau Universe
The Venusians,
with Michael Capobianco, unpublished 1964 novella.
Under Twilight,
with Michael Capobianco, unpublished 1978 novel.
The Silvergirl Universe
When We Were New,
reprint and new collection.
When We Were Real,
1999 reprint novel.
When We Were Lost,
reprint and new collection.
Other Novels
Iris,
with Michael Capobianco, 1990 reprint novel.
Fellow Traveler,
with Michael Capobianco, 1991 reprint novel.
Dark Sky Legion,
1992 reprint novel.
Radio Silence,
unpublished 1992 novel.
When Heaven Fell,
1995 reprint novel.
The Transmigration of Souls,
1996 reprint novel.
Alpha Centauri,
with Michael Capobianco, 1997 reprint novel.
White Light,
with Michael Capobianco, 1998 reprint novel.
Moments of Inertia,
unpublished 2000 novel, parts serialized in
Asimov’s
,
The Urban Hiker,
and
The North Carolina Literary Review,
with a related article, “Gold from Your Novel” in
Writer’s Digest
.
Other Novellas
Almost Forever,
1993 reprint.
Yellow Matter,
1993 reprint.
Age of Aquarius,
1996 reprint.
The Engine of Desire,
2002 reprint.
The Man Who Counts,
2003 reprint.
Off on a Starship,
2003 reprint.
Down to the Earth Below,
2006 reprint.
The Sea of Dreams,
2009 reprint.
General Collections
Ambient Light,
complete short fiction from the 1980s and 1990s.
Coronal Light,
complete short fiction from the 2000s.
Zodiacal Light,
short fiction from the 2010s and beyond, should I live so long. We’ll see!
Zed Variations,
tales of Mr. Zed and his going doubles, including his lost-boy selves.
Tales to Dishearten,
short fiction from the 1960s and 1970s, including some Starover stories.
Melting in the Sun,
a collection of memoir stories, true in spirit, if not in fact.
Shambles,
a nonfiction assortment, articles on writing, software design, space exploration, and more.
Roaming in the Gloaming,
with Michael Capobianco. Collaborative fiction and nonfiction.
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