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…
The Score — a novel of the planet Ephergent. Chapter 1 of 12. The crate arrived on a Tuesday, and it came with a signature that wasn't Chewy's. He found it at the foot of the workshop steps, six feet of weathered pine banded in steel, a…