Quintessence

David Walton

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Chapter One
 
 
THERE was something wrong with the body. There was no smell, for one thing. Stephen Parris had been around enough corpses to know the aroma well. Its limbs were stiff, its joints were locked, and the eyes were shrunken in their sockets—all evidence of death at least a day old—but the skin looked as fresh as if the man had died an hour ago, and the flesh was still firm. As if the body had refused to decay.
Parris felt a thrill in his gut. An anomaly in a corpse meant something new to learn. Perhaps a particular imbalance of the humors caused this

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Praise for Quintessesnce and David Walton:

“Quintessence is an utterly stunning work of imagination, a slipstream counterhistory set in a fourteenth century that is as audaciously imagined as any work of science fiction.”
—Rosemary Edghill, coauthor of The Shadow of Albion

“With Quintessence David Walton proves that winning the Philip K. Dick Award was not a fluke, but a harbinger of things to come.”
—Mike Resnick, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of the Oracle Trilogy

“Terminal Mind is high-intensity human drama set in a thoroughly imagined and highly plausible future.”
—Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show

“Terminal Mind is a fast-paced SF-thriller with a very human heart.”
—Elaine Isaak, author of The Eunuch’s Heir

“[Walton's] characters are firmly grounded in a social context. In Terminal Mind, the family and interpersonal conflicts are just as intriguing as the threat to society, with outcomes that are just as uncertain.”
—Nancy Fulda, assistant editor, Baen’s Universe

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DAVID WALTON won the 2008 Philip K. Dick Award for his debut novel, Terminal Mind. He lives near Philadelphia. davidwaltonfiction.wordpress.com

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Quintessence
David Walton

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Tom Doherty Associates
Tor Books
March 2013
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ISBN: 9780765330901
ISBN10: 0765330903
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches, 320 pages
$25.99
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