{"id":3798,"date":"2010-05-27T18:59:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T02:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=3798"},"modified":"2010-05-27T18:59:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T02:59:22","slug":"free-readin-dreadnought-by-cherie-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/news\/free-readin-dreadnought-by-cherie-priest\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Readin’ | ‘Dreadnought’ by Cherie Priest"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Boneshaker<\/a>\n
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Down in the laundry room with the bloody- wet floors and the ceiling- high stacks of sheets, wraps, and blankets, Vinita Lynch was elbows- deep in a vat full of dirty pillowcases because she\u2019d promised\u2014 she\u2019d sworn on her mother\u2019s life\u2014 that she\u2019d find a certain windup pocket watch belonging to Private Hugh Morton before the device was plunged into a tub of simmering soapy water and surely destroyed for good.<\/p>\n

Why the private had stashed it in a pillowcase wasn\u2019t much of a mystery: even in an upstanding place like the Robertson Hospital, small and shiny valuables went missing from personal stashes with unsettling regularity. And him forgetting about it was no great leap either: the shot he took in the forehead had been a lucky one because he\u2019d survived it, but it left him addled at times\u2014 and this morning at breakfast had been one of those times. At the first bell announcing morning food, against the strict orders of Captain Sally he\u2019d sat up and bolted into the mess hall, which existed only in that bullet- buffeted brain of his. In the time it took for him to be captured and redirected to his cot, where the meal would come to him, thank you very kindly, if only he\u2019d be patient enough to receive it, the junior nursing staff had come through and stripped the bedding of all and sundry.<\/p>\n

None of them had noticed the watch, but it would\u2019ve been easy to miss.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Cherie Priest’s Boneshaker<\/strong>, a tale of Steampunk Seattle beset by zombies, is hugely popular, into its seventh printing and collecting nominations for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel. It’s easy, then, to imagine the excitement building for the stand alone follow-up Dreadnought<\/strong>. To sate some of that exicement, Macmillan<\/a>, the parent company of Tor Books<\/a>, has posted the first chapter of Dreadnought<\/strong><\/a> for free on their website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Down in the laundry room with the bloody- wet floors and the ceiling- high stacks of sheets, wraps, and blankets, Vinita Lynch was elbows- deep in a vat full of dirty pillowcases because she\u2019d promised\u2014 she\u2019d sworn on her mother\u2019s life\u2014 that she\u2019d find a certain windup pocket watch belonging to Private Hugh Morton before… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n