Musa
Publishing is proud to announce the release of Milo James Fowler's
most recent science fiction novella Yakuza
Territory.
Take
a moment to discover what happens when a hardboiled detective story
is set in a science fiction world:
A detective with no way
out.
A telepath with
something to prove...
World-weary detective Charlie Madison has seen
more than his share of war. When he stops by the 37th precinct late
one night to check on his old friend Sergeant Douglass, the place is
as quiet as a morgue. The last thing he expects to find: half a dozen
Russian gunmen with a score to settle.
What starts out as a vicious Alamo-style battle
soon evolves into something more sinister as Madison's past comes
into play. Will his ties to a branch of the Japanese mafia be a help
or a hindrance? And who is the strange man in holding? Why are the
Russians determined to break him out?
Struggling to survive the night, one private
eye must rely on his wits to solve a mystery where he's outnumbered,
outgunned, and trapped inside a police station with a soulless
killing machine.
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Territory
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Get
to know the man behind the book:
1.
When did you start seriously pursuing writing as a career?
I've
been writing since I was a kid, but I started submitting my work for
publication in the summer of 2009. I'd always thought I would pursue
publication at some point—probably after I retired from teaching
or turned 40. My first story was published in January 2010, and
I've had another 96 accepted for publication since then. I won't turn
40 for a couple more years, and I'm still teaching full-time.
Doesn't look like I'll be retiring anytime soon!
2.
How did you create the character Charlie Madison?
When
I was a kid, I learned to type on an old-school manual typewriter.
That's where I learned to write, too. My first novels were messy,
full of typos and plot holes. But they were fun. And at age 15,
that's what it was all about for me. Private eye Charlie Madison was
one of the first characters I created, based on Box
13
and Dixon Hill, and The
Double Murder
was his big debut. By the end of it, I had over a hundred pages of
snappy banter, mob hits, double-crossing dames, car chases, and even
some alligators on leashes. It was a horrible parody, and I knew it.
Halfway
through Write1Sub1
2011, I came up with the first Charlie Madison story I'd written in
decades: Girl
of Great Price.
It wasn't anything like his original case, but he was the same
quick-witted, intrepid detective I'd known before. I
transplanted him into a more serious and gritty "future
noir" sci-fi setting, and once I'd envisioned that world, I knew
I'd be back. Immaterial
Evidence soon
followed, and Yakuza
Territory
will be available from Musa Publishing on November 7th.
3.
Are you working on more Charlie Madison stories?
I'm
outlining the follow-up to Yakuza
Territory,
and it's going to be full of assassinations, kidnappings, killer
robots, and maybe even a mad scientist. The working title is The
Gifted Ones,
and it follows the origins of the mysterious suprahumans who
have appeared in all three Charlie Madison detective stories so far.
Author
Bio:
Milo James Fowler
is a teacher by day and a speculative fictioneer by night. When he's
not grading papers, he's imagining what the world might be like in a
dozen alternate realities. He is an active SFWA member, and his work
has appeared in more than 90 publications, including AE
SciFi,
Cosmos,
Daily
Science Fiction,
Nature,
Shimmer,
and the Wastelands
2
anthology.
