Edit: This was my first self-published ebook. Since doing so, I've made this about twenty times longer, with dozens of stories in it, and it's available for free (a downloadable pdf) from http://self.gutenberg.org/, in an expanded edition, here.
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It's not so much that I want you to buy this, as much as:
1) I want to show off the cool cover art the great Garrett W. Vance did for me, and
2) If you are on the lookout for a new author, and you like what I write here, then here's an inexpensive chance to see what my best efforts are like.
Why does the hunter have a crossbow instead of a gun? Why do he and his people hate those on the other side of an interdimensional Gate? Why do they feel they "got a pig in a poke"? He's not hot with rage though; he's Ice Cold.
Hurt...damaged...trudging through snow, a banished soldier makes a surprising discovery. Maybe there's hope. Maybe there's no need to just fade away and die. Maybe there's return from Exile.
A bustling multidimensional civilization; expansion based on Explorers, Experts, and Enforcers. A man who is one of the foremost Experts takes his uncanny talents to a nexus of tremendous possibility. But things go badly wrong at Majoros-Taff Vale. Will he overcome the reasons the nexus and its development site are called Emptyville?