Snakes and slaves are the least of it, and when the Governor of the island is found in his bedroom, dead and partially gnawed, Lord John finds himself the temporary military governor of Jamaica. In which, Lord John is sent to Jamaica, charged with putting down a slave rebellion. Lord John Grey wondered whether to say anything about it. There was a snake on the drawing-room table. “The Space Between” was first published on Februin the anthology titled THE MAD SCIENTIST’S GUIDE TO WORLD DOMINATION, edited by John Joseph Adams. Given into his charge on the journey is Joan MacKimmie (younger sister of Marsali, younger daughter of Laoghaire), a young woman on her way to join a French convent, in hopes of shutting up the voices in her head. Meanwhile, a grief-stricken Michael Murray (middle son of Jenny and Ian Murray) returns to his wine business in Paris, following the death of his father (and the earlier death of his young wife). Germain explores the mysteries of the universe. He still didn’t know why the frog hadn’t killed him. Martin and Gardner Dozois, released in the U.S.A. “The Custom of the Army” was first published in WARRIORS, an anthology edited by George R.R. John Hunter (a real surgeon, known for his great contributions to medicine, but known more colloquially in his own time as “the body-snatcher”) leads to him being sent to the wilds of Canada (pretty wild at the time), where he joins General James Wolfe, has sex on a sandbar (though not with General Wolfe), repels Indian attacks (though not necessarily all Indians…) and (among other things) climbs a sheer cliff at night with a number of Scottish Highlanders, in order to attack the Citadel of Quebec. In which, Lord John Grey’s encounter with said eel (to say nothing of a belligerent poet and Dr.

“The Custom of the Army”Īll things considered, it was probably the fault of the electric eel. In order, these are the novellas included in SEVEN STONES, with a brief description of each: 1. The final two novellas of SEVEN STONES, though, are brand-new stories that have never been published!

(Not, however, in the UK/Australia/NewZealand, Germany, etc.) It’s seven novellas, all written by me, and all dealing with the interesting side-stories and lacunae of the Outlander universe.įive of these novellas were originally published in various anthologies, and in the US/Canada, have then been published singly as ebooks. What this is, is a “Collection of Outlander Fiction,” as the cover states.

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