Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Praise for The Incrementalists:
Top 10 Sci-Fi/Fantasy title, Fall 2013 (Publishers Weekly)
A spectacular new contemporary fantasy novel this book was an absolute home-run for me.
--Cory Doctorow
Spare, dangerous, strangely whimsical, damn fine. Read this. It s good.
--Elizabeth Bear
Packed with twists and nifty surprises If you have to call it something, call it genius at work."
-- Booklist, starred review
The rich feast that is the world of the Incrementalists is well worth exploring and I d love to see it turn into a series...we could see years of Incrementalist novels making the world a better place, a little bit at a time.
--Daytona Beach News-Journal
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Synopsis
"Secret societies, immortality, murder mysteries and Las Vegas all in one book? Shut up and take my money." John Scalzi on The Incrementalists
The Incrementalists are a secret society of two hundred people an unbroken lineage reaching back forty thousand years. They cheat death, share lives and memories, and communicate with one another across nations and time. They have an epic history, an almost magical memory, and a very modest mission: to make the world better, a little bit at a time.
Now Phil, the Incrementalist whose personality has stayed stable through more incarnations than anyone else s, has been shot dead. They ll bring him back but first they need to know what happened. Their investigation will lead down unexpected paths in Arizona, and bring them up against corruption, racism, and brutality in high and low places alike.
But the key may lay in one of Phil s previous lives, in Bleeding Kansas in the late 1850s and the fate of the passionate abolitionist we remember as John Brown.
Steven Brust and Skyler White's The Skill of Our Hands is the thrilling and thought-provoking follow-up to their critically acclaimed The Incrementalists.
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