THE HUNTERS The Deep Warrens were a maze of tunnels and chambers, carved out of the Martian rock by the first settlers generations ago. Level Seven was the deepest, the darkest, the most dangerous. Criminals hid here. Monsters, too — not literal monsters, but the kind that wore human faces. Remy and Juno moved through … Read more
THE VOICE The memory was different. Not a room. Not a conversation. A place. A place that didn’t exist on Mars — maybe didn’t exist anywhere in the solar system. Remy was standing in a field of blue grass, under a sky with two moons. One was silver. One was gold. “Where am I?” she asked. … Read more
THE EXTRACTION The extraction took forty-three seconds. Remy counted them in her head, the way she always did. One Mississippi. Two Mississippi. Three. The target was sedated, his breathing shallow, his eyes moving behind closed lids as the needle in his temple siphoned his most recent memories. She could see them in her own mind … Read more
THE MEMORY THIEF OF MARS She stole memories for a living. Until she stole one that killed her. On Mars, in the sprawling domed city of Erebus Mons, memories are currency. Not data. Not recordings. Real memories — ripped from the minds of the rich and sold to the highest bidder. The wealthy use them to … Read more
What Eli Sees – Chapter 35 “What Eli Sees” Elijah Crane was eighteen years old and he drove south through the Connecticut October and the radio played something from a year he barely remembered and the trees on either side of the road were burning with their ordinary annual beauty and the dead walked at the edges … Read more
What Eli Sees – Chapter 34 “Dunmore, After” He stayed in Dunmore for three days. He had not planned this — he had expected to come, do the work, leave. But the house was finished and October was beautiful and Thomas Birch was still in Dunmore, twenty-two now, working at his grandmother’s old Cape Cod which he … Read more
What Eli Sees – Chapter 33 “The Pale Woman Goes” The light, when it came, was different from the warm golden light that had come for Edmund Harwick and Walter Finch and the others. It was cooler — not cold, not the cold that had been in this place for a century and a half, but a … Read more
What Eli Sees – Chapter 32 “What She Was” She had been a child. This was what had been buried under everything. Before the centuries of accumulated darkness, before the collected dead, before Edmund Harwick, before the house, before any of it — she had been a child who had died on this land alone and in … Read more
What Eli Sees – Chapter 31 “Inside the Corner” He went up the stairs alone. Dr. Hooper was in the parlour with instructions — if Eli shouted, come; if Eli was silent for more than an hour, come; otherwise, stay. The second floor hallway was familiar in the way that places of strong memory are familiar — … Read more
What Eli Sees – Chapter 30 “The Return, 1984” Eli Crane was eighteen years old when he drove back to Dunmore for the first time since December 1974. He had his father’s car — Robert had moved on to a new car and given Eli the old Volvo — and his notebooks and three years of correspondence … Read more
