Reaper (James Alan Gardner) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги

Author’s Notes

In 1989, I attended the Clarion West Science Fiction workshop. Each student was required to write a story a week. This was my first story of the workshop, written longhand in the depths of Seattle.

I’d had the idea of Reapers for some time before, but had never made a serious attempt to write a story about them. At first I thought the central character was going to be a brash teenager like the Hooch character; but after a page or two, I realized it wasn’t working. That’s when I switched to the current despicable narrator... and the story practically wrote itself.