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Written Backwards' Allevon series of illustrated trade paperbacks continues with ARTIFACTS, a short novel by Darren Speegle, featuring the artwork of L.A. Spooner, and an introduction by Gene O'Neill. In a far future Europe, following a four-thousand-year Dark Age, of which man retains little record or memory, a scroll is found in a train car deep within the snow and ice of Scandinavia, buried since the cataclysmic end of the First Age. The document, which contains a cryptic message meant for the world before it died, finds its way into the hands of Rein, an outpost bar hand who journeys across the continent seeking the relic's translation.
Michael Bailey
Michael Bailey is a recipient and ten-time nominee of the Bram Stoker Award, a five-time Shirley Jackson Award nominee, and a three-time recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Award. He is the author of the composite novels Hangtown, Psychotropic Dragon, Phoenix Rose, and Palindrome Hannah, fiction and poetry collections such as The Impossible Weight of Life, Oversight, Inkblots and Blood Spots, Scales and Petals, as well as Forever Velveteen, a sequel to The Velveteen Rabbit. His edited anthologies include The Library of the Dead, Prisms, Adam's Ladder, Pellucid Lunacy, Miscreations, Long Division, and the Chiral Mad, Qualia Nous, and You, Human series, most of which are illustrated. He is also a producer and screenwriter for various film projects and lives in the Southern Caribbean.
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