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Bone Dance

By Emma Bull
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Publisher Description

Bone Dance is a classic techno-fantasy from Emma Bull, author of the bestselling Territory

Sparrow's my name. Trader. Deal-maker. Hustler, some call me. I work the Night Fair circuit, buying and selling pre-nuke videos from the world before. I know how to get a high price, especially on Big Bang collectibles. But the hottest ticket of all is information on the Horsemen—the mind-control weapons that tilted the balance in the war between the Americas. That's the prize I'm after.

But it seems I'm having trouble controlling my own mind.

The Horsemen are coming.

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“THIS BOOK IS HARD TO PITCH, FOR SEVERAL REASONS: 1) It defies genre boundaries. It's fantasy/scifi/post-apocalyptic/noir/cyberpunk. It will bounce from tarot reading to nuclear war to voodoo goddess to bioengineering and back again. 2) The plot is not straightforward enough to easily synopsize. 3) Part of the fun of this novel is figuring out what's going on. The book does not easily give you the premise or the plot; you get to work for it. I CAN SAY THIS: 4) This book follows Sparrow, who sells black market VHS tapes in a post-apocalyptic city. The horsemen who brought the apocalypse are coming again, and Sparrow gets caught up in it. 5) This book has powerful themes of identity and bodily autonomy. 6) When I first read this book (at age 15), it was a little too strange and heavy for me. I didn't fully appreciate it then, tho I did enjoy it. Some of the marketing for this book says it's YA, but I would never put it there. Our main character is a teenager, but the themes/content-warnings/worldbuilding/out-of-this-world-Weirdness put the book firmly in the Adult category. Now, I completely loved it. It's even better on a reread.”

About Emma Bull

EMMA BULL's War for the Oaks won the Locus Award for Best First Novel. Her subsequent works have included Falcon; the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award–finalist Bone Dance; Finder; Freedom and Necessity (with Steven Brust); and the Los Angeles Times bestseller Territory. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.

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