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    Firedrake
    Firedrake
    Firedrake
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    Firedrake

    By J. Scott Coatsworth

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    A handwritten note.

    A handful of lavender roses.

    And memories cracked like shattered glass.

    Kerry has had a bad day, and he's sick of his life in Arco Four. Nothing ever changes, even for a firedrake. Days and nights pass with a quiet air of desperation, as everyone  tries to convince themselves their lives in the superscraper have meaning.

    A strange scribbled note offers him a distraction—and maybe a chance to finally unlock his broken memories.

    But to find out, he'll to go Outside. No one ever goes Outside. Still, what does he have to lose?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJ. Scott Coatsworth
    Release dateSep 4, 2021
    ISBN9798201805951
    Firedrake
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    J. Scott Coatsworth

    Scott lives with his husband Mark in a yellow bungalow in Sacramento. He was indoctrinated into fantasy and sci fi by his mother at the tender age of nine. He devoured her library, but as he grew up, he wondered where all the people like him were.He decided that if there weren’t queer characters in his favorite genres, he would remake them to his own ends.A Rainbow Award winning author, he runs Queer Sci Fi, QueeRomance Ink, and Other Worlds Ink with Mark, sites that celebrate fiction reflecting queer reality, and is a full member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).

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