Patchwerk

About the Book

A novella.

Sometimes all you need is an infinite number of heroes

Fleeing the city on the TransContinental airship, Dran Florrian is traveling with the Palimpsest — the ultimate proof of a lifetime of scientific theorizing.

When a rogue organization attempts to steal the device, however, Dran takes drastic action.

But his invention threatens to destroy the very fabric of this and all other possible universes, unless Dran — or someone very much like him — can shut down the machine and reverse the process.

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Steven Poore8 / 10

“You'd be forgiven for thinking that Patchwerk is a superhero story - the tagline on the front, and the very striking cover both sort of point that way. It isn't that, but it is a fast-paced, entertaining romp through a short space of time and a vast number of parallel realities. Patchwerk is reminiscent of such lost classics as Heinlein's North By…”

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David Tallerman

David Tallerman is the author of the comic fantasy novels Giant Thief, Crown Thief and Prince Thief, the absurdist steampunk graphic novel Endangered Weapon B: Mechanimal Science and the genre-bending Tor.com novella Patchwerk. His short fantasy, science fiction, horror and crime stories have appeared or are due in…

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