This is a very early d-mat story, written before the world of Twinmaker existed. I hope you enjoy it! “I hate this fucking town,” my sister said on the day she disappeared. “I hate it almost as much as I hate you, you little shit.” I can remember her words clearly—as though she is saying […]
Here’s a story that predates the entire Twinmaker experiment, set far in the future of the novels. Enjoy! On a far-flung moonlet, a rare device flickered into life. Hradek Zanshin, High Ethnarch of the Ataman Theocracy, stepped out of the reconstruction chamber and took a deep breath. To look at, he wasn’t much: shortish; dark […]
Not to be confused with this fly. Drugs and d-mat are a match made in heaven. We’ve all heard the stories: there are farmers who grow mutated crops in search of the next super-high, which they’ll pattern and distribute to anyone who has the right contacts. There are molecular mechanics who change substances one particle […]
Thanks to the brilliant person who, at an appearance at Stefen’s Books, gave me the idea for this story. The girl was possessed, her father said. A demon had got into her when she jumped by d-mat to New York in order to see an unsanctioned boy. (Who was himself in the grip of the […]