The Score — a novel of the planet Ephergent. Complete in twelve chapters. 📥 The Score.epub — the e-book · 🎧 the-score-audiobook.m4b — the audiobook The chapters * Chapter 1 — Shipped Freight * Chapter 2 — The Waystation * Chapter 3 — Gulchmarker * Chapter 4 — Bad Coffee, Worse Horses * Chapter 5 — The One That Stayed * Chapter…
The Score — a novel of the planet Ephergent. Chapter 12 of 12. They reached the crest in the last hour of light, and the crest was a shelf of black rock no wider than a porch, and beyond the shelf the world fell away to the north into a darkness…
The Score — a novel of the planet Ephergent. Chapter 11 of 12. The first false spire was on the second day up, standing in a scree field like a nail someone had hammered into the mountain and left to rust, and it did not glow when Tavo walked past it.…
The Score — a novel of the planet Ephergent. Chapter 10 of 12. Three days north of the sinkhole the green thinned out into the last fringe of Cupruma, and the journal resolved a new line the way it always resolved lines: without warning, without ceremony, in the middle of a…
The Score — a novel of the planet Ephergent. Chapter 9 of 12. The ground swayed first, a slow tilt like the deck of a ship in a long swell, and Chewy woke with his hand on the journal before he opened his eyes. The tent fabric breathed. The trees beyond…
The Score — a novel of the planet Ephergent. Chapter 8 of 12. The green thinned the way a sentence thins when you reach the end of an idea: gradually, then all at once. By the second day out of the spire-clearing the trees were shorter and the light between…
The Score — a novel of the planet Ephergent. Chapter 7 of 12. They waited at the spire for the better part of an hour, and the margin of the journal stayed blank, and the spire stayed dark, and the coin-light moved through the canopy in slow bands that made…
The Score — a novel of the planet Ephergent. Chapter 6 of 12. The understory run started at dawn the way Clive had promised, which meant it started in the dark before dawn, because Clive measured dawn by the moment the canopy stopped dripping and started breathing. Chewy came out of…
The Score — a novel of the planet Ephergent. Chapter 5 of 12. The junction was a crossroads with nothing at it, and the road north was a rut through scrub for the first mile and then the scrub got serious and then the scrub was trees. That was how the…
The Score — a novel of the planet Ephergent. Chapter 4 of 12. They came off the scree onto the flat at noon and the flat went on for thirty miles in every direction, flat as a page, and the only thing on it was a road. The road was packed…
The Score — a novel of the planet Ephergent. Chapter 3 of 12. The Cupruma band began the way all bad country begins: by getting worse slowly enough that you didn't notice until you were already in it. Chewy noticed. The grass thinned to burr and dust, the pines…
The Score — a novel of the planet Ephergent. Chapter 2 of 12. They walked north-northeast for most of the morning with nothing but the journal and the pack Clive had built out of the crate's own wood and leather scraps. Chewy had protested the pack — it was…