Synopses & Reviews
Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends....
Angel has long since learned that earthquakes are usually not benign incidents, so when Doyle has a vision involving a seismic shift, everyone's guard goes up. Further investigation leads Angel to a group of Serpentene demons living locally as an affluent private community. These nouveau "monsters" are not evil in any way (other than the fact that they make their living as telemarketers) and have no discernible enemies -- so why, then, have theybecome the target of a clan of underground quake demons -- demons who have the ability to reduce living creatures to a pulverized mass in an instant?
Cordelia and Doyle are not sure the clients -- demon, albeit high-paying, that they are can truly be trusted. But Angel finds that he has much in common with this particular brand of outsiders. After all, as he knows, there are degrees of evil and of innocence alike....
About the Author
Don DeBrandt writes science fiction, fantasy, horror, superheroes, cyberpunk, cyberfolk, and cyberanything else. Spider Robinson has compared DeBrandt's fiction to that of Larry Niven and John Varley; his first novel,
The Quicksilver Screen, made Locus magazine's recommended reading fist for 1992. He's also published horror fiction in
Pulphouse, and a novella in the SF magazine
Horizons. His fiction has earned him Honorable Mentions in both the
Year's Best SF and the
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.He was written two stage plays for high schools, Heart of Glass and Happy Hour at the Secret Hideout, and has worked as a freelancer for Marvel Comics on such titles as Spiderman 2099 and 2099 Unlimited. His other comics work include several stories for the anthology comic Freeflight. He has short stories in all three volumes of the Deadlands gaming anthology.
DeBrandt lives in Burnaby, B.C. His hobbies indude leather-tasting, naked laughing gas hot tubbing, stilting, and being thrown off roofs by irate hotel security. Despite rumors to the contrary, he does not have an evil twin. There are no such things as evil twins.