“No, I’m talking about real people. Flesh and blood like you and me. They’re taken from places they call home and sent into this stormy sea to help calm the waters. It never ends because it’s the storm itself, the unending conflict, that makes the world we know a reality. Along with all the other worlds that could be.”
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Read “Haxan” by Kenneth Mark Hoover, in Issue #13
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Kenneth Mark Hoover has sold over sixty short stories and articles. His fiction has appeared in various print and online magazines such as Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Fantastic Stories, Strange Horizons, multiple times in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and many others. His interviews with notable science fiction and fantasy writers can be found at Strange Horizons and his new novel Haxan, set in the same worlds as his stories in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, was published by CZP/HarperCollins in 2014, and the next Haxan novel, Quaternity, was published in 2015. Mr. Hoover currently lives in Dallas, TX but you can reach him, and read more about Haxan and the characters who live there, at kennethmarkhoover.com.
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