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Ariel


CoverAt four-thirty one Saturday afternoon the laws of physics as we know them underwent a change. Electronic devices, cars, industries stopped. The lights went out. Any technology more complicated than a lever or pulley simply wouldn't work. A new set of rules took its place—laws that could only be called magic.

Ninety-nine percent of humanity has simply vanished. Cities lie abandoned. Supernatural creatures wander the silenced achievements of a halted civilization. Pete Garey has survived the Change and its ensuing chaos. He wanders the southeastern United States, scavenging, lying low. Learning. One day he makes an unexpected friend: a smartassed unicorn with serious attitude.

Pete names her Ariel and teaches her how to talk, how to read, and how to survive in a world in which a unicorn horn has become a highly prized commodity. When they learn that there is a price quite literally on Ariel's head, the two unlikely companions set out from Atlanta to Manhattan to confront the sorcerer who wants her horn. And so begins a haunting, epic, and surprisingly funny journey through the remnants of a halted civilization in a desolated world.



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For Lisa,
who helped me see things
as they are

Grateful acknowledgment is made to people and organizations who helped immensely in technical speculations involved in writing this novel. Some of them were pestered into the wee hours of the morning; others weren't aware of what they were getting into.

Thanks to: Myron Tisdel and Phil Lindsey, Kerry Hudson, the team of Mullin & Delaney, Bob Marlin, Andy Solomon, the United States Hang Gliding Association, and the Society for Creative Anachronism.

A special thank-you goes to Dr. David R. Colburn, who made things so much easier, and to Rose Hillardt.

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