At the Pit of Despair

By M. O. Muriel

It is an AVATAR of the Net, an Astral-Virtual Analog Thought-Analysis Redoubt—an illicit technology created for interfacing with the Grid of Collective Human Consciousness. Having been bequeathed a transducer from his late subordinate Lysanda Turienn, FAST Commander Wolf is using it to uncover the cause of the war between the Thirteen United Clans and their arch nemesis, the psionic Shadowmen Faction. But Wolf's trip into omniscience comes with an unexpected personal cost he may find too hard to bear.

By Writers and Illustrators of the Future author/illustrator award winner, M. O. Muriel. Story, cover art, and internal illustrations by M. O. Muriel.

• Language: English
• Publisher: M. O. Muriel
• Release date: Sep 21, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301008728

M. O. Muriel

M. O. Muriel is the winner of the L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future 2012. She is also the winner of the Illustrators of the Future 2011, making her the first woman to win both contests since their inception, and the first to do it in back-to-back years. With a B. A. in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico, which she earned with High Honors, cum laude (May 2004), she has sold both short stories and illustrations to speculative fiction e-zines such as AlienSkin and NewMyths. Fulltime, Muriel is mother. For 11 years she was a Marine spouse and, after an inter-service transfer, a 1st Cav Army wife. Part time, she can be found illustrating her novels, composing their soundtracks, watching Red vs. Blue, and studying both canonical and non-canonical biblical prophecy. Currently, Muriel resides near Syracuse, NY. When she's not busy herding kids and ferrets, and generally holding down the fort, she's trying to squeeze in a moment or two for writing and illustration—forget the katz!

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