The Hundredth House Had No Walls: A Tor.com Original
By Laurie Penny
5/5
()
About this ebook
"The Hundreth House Had No Walls," a Tor.com Original short story from the award-winning author, journalist, screenwriter, essayist, public speaker, and activist Laure Penny.
The King was bored.
For five hundred years he had been King of the country of Myth and Shadow, and he was a good king, if a slightly bewildered one.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Laurie Penny
Laurie Penny is an award-winning author, columnist, journalist and screenwriter. Her seven books include Bitch Doctrine (Bloomsbury 2017), Unspeakable Things (Bloomsbury 2014), Everything Belongs To The Future (Tor, 2016) and Penny Red (Pluto Press, 2011). As a freelance journalist, she writes essays, columns and longform features about politics, social justice, pop culture, feminism, mental health, technology for the Guardian, Longreads, Time Magazine, Buzzfeed, The New York Times, Vice, Salon, The Nation, The New Statesman, The New Inquiry, Tor.com and Medium. Her short stories have been published by Tor.com, Terraform and in collections for MacMillan and Nautilus Press. She was a 2014-15 Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University. As a screenwriter, Laurie has worked on The Nevers, (HBO), Netflix’s The Haunting, and Amazon’s Carnival Row’
Read more from Laurie Penny
Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ask: Building Consent Culture Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Cybersexism: Sex, Gender and Power on the Internet Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Related to The Hundredth House Had No Walls
Related ebooks
Hexagrammaton: A Tor.com Original Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5More Real Than Him: A Tor.com Original Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Seonag and the Seawolves: A Tor.com Original Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Touches: A Tor.com Original Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard): A Tor.com Original Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Greenest Gecko: A Tor.com Original Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Awakening of Insects: A Tor.com Original Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bu San Bu Si: A Taiwan Punk Tale Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Kite Maker: A Tor.com Original Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Song: A Tor.com Original Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Three Lives of Sonata James: A Tor.com Original Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Red: A Tor.com Original Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Beyond the El: A Tor.com Original Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 42 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBreaker of Fates - Broken Song Verse 1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMental Diplopia: A Tor.com Original Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Harmony of Water and Weald: a Sea Foam and Silence collection: Fairytale Verses Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDear Twin Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOne/Zero: A Tor.com Original Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Bourbon, Sugar, Grace: A Tor.com Original Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dragons of Tomorrow: A Tor.com Original Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Out of This World: Queer Speculative Fiction Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBehold, The New Has Come Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Recognize Fascism Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Glimmer Of Silver Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat: A Tor.com Original Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHoshi and the Red City Circuit Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5OKPsyche: a novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDragon Bike: Fantastical Stories of Bicycling, Feminism, & Dragons Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSunspot Jungle, Vol. 1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
General Fiction For You
The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Man Called Ove: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fellowship Of The Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The City of Dreaming Books Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It Ends with Us: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Unhoneymooners Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shantaram: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life of Pi: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Priory of the Orange Tree Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mythos Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Silmarillion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nettle & Bone Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Cabin at the End of the World: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ulysses: With linked Table of Contents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meditations: Complete and Unabridged Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5You: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The King James Version of the Bible Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Outsider: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Alchemist: A Graphic Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beartown: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Anonymous Sex Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5
Reviews for The Hundredth House Had No Walls
1 rating0 reviews
Book preview
The Hundredth House Had No Walls - Laurie Penny
Begin Reading
Table of Contents
About the Author
Copyright Page
Thank you for buying this
Tom Doherty Associates ebook.
To receive special offers, bonus content,
and info on new releases and other great reads,
sign up for our newsletters.
Or visit us online at
us.macmillan.com/newslettersignup
For email updates on the author, click here.
The author and publisher have provided this e-book to you without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied so that you can enjoy reading it on your personal devices. This e-book is for your personal use only. You may not print or post this e-book, or make this e-book publicly available in any way. You may not copy, reproduce, or upload this e-book, other than to read it on one of your personal devices.
Copyright infringement is against the law. If you believe the copy of this e-book you are reading infringes on the author’s copyright, please notify the publisher at: us.macmillanusa.com/piracy.
The Hundredth House Had No Walls
FOR NG AND AP
The King was bored.
For five hundred years he had been King of the country of Myth and Shadow, and he was a good king, if a slightly bewildered one. The countryside rolled with treacherous forests rammed full of all the requisite enchanted creatures,