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About the Book:
Author: Mark Richardson
Pub. Date: February 9, 2020
Publisher: Whiz Bang
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 178
Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N, Kobo
Wellington Thorneycroft is content picking pockets, taking Ambrosia, screwing prostitutes, and simply surviving in the hellish, walled City. But everything changes when he spots a spectral woman who wordlessly conveys the message: We’ll escape together. Suddenly, Thorneycroft’s life is turned upside down as he’s pulled along a circuitous path to an unknowable freedom: a path marked by violence, sex, and metaphysical dread.
Reviews:
"The Sun Casts No Shadow by Mark Richardson is a
dark and twisted tale of a city's underbelly...A fascinating yarn that will
captivate readers, The Sun Casts No Shadow easily earns
five stars. Richardson has produced an exceptional work that readers will
relish and avidly share for years to come."―Portland Book Review
"A lowly man searches for a way out of
a seemingly inescapable City in the dystopian noir...Richardson coats
his short, engaging novel in a gleefully dense atmosphere...A dark, stylish
tale that revels in its ambiguity."―Kirkus Reviews
Excerpt:
Strangely, when I think of the City, the trains are what
first come to mind. Grimy and hulking, each evening a fleet would carry a small
army of workers from the Factory to bleak neighbors and shanty towns where they
lived out their dreary lives.
I think of other things as well, such as: oppressive and
unavoidable heat, heat so heavy it became a struggle just to walk. Troopers
clearing the streets, bloodening heads with their billy clubs. Also, the
red-light girls who would let me shoot my load on their tits, or wherever else
I wanted, for a price. And there were the mansions on the crest of the ridge
that circled high above the City; palatial estates that seemed to gaze down and
lord over the rest of us. Legend had it that those mansions were the first
structures built in the City, soon after its creation. For a time, they had
served as homes for the Founding Fathers, but long ago had been commandeered by
friends of Felix.
Once, while I still lived at the orphanage, I scaled up
the hill, past the mansions, until I made it to the Wall that circled the City.
Looking up, I could see no end. The Wall climbed into the thick, oppressive
layer of smog. I spent the entire day slowly walking along the circumference,
searching for an opening, a way out, an escape hatch. No luck, there was no way
out—not even a crack. I never returned. What was the point? We were all
prisoners, scurrying rats fighting to survive.
At the time that I spotted the woman with the black
bangs, I’d been eking out a living as a thief and a robber. I stole from the
high-end department stores where the wives and mistresses of Felix’s henchmen
shopped, late-night convenience shops that peppered hardscrabble residential
blocks, liquor stores and bars, and even private homes—you name it, I took from
it. But mostly I picked pockets. And the pickings were easy.
About Mark Richardson:
Mark Richardson is
the author of the novels The Sun Casts No Shadow, and Hunt
for the Troll.
Born in the Chicago area, he
graduated from the University of Iowa, and promptly escaped the midwestern
winters for sunny California, first living in Los Angeles and then San
Francisco. He spent thirty years working as a writer and marketer for tech
companies in Silicon Valley.
Mark now lives in the East Bay with his wife, two children, and the world’s cutest dog. He spends his time writing fiction, obsessing about the Chicago Cubs, attending his daughter’s softball games, and reading stacks of books. He loves genre-bending fiction, especially speculative writing with a noir flavor. In 2019, he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, and supports the Michael J. Fox Foundation.
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Giveaway
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1 winner will win a $10 Amazon GC courtesy of Rockstar Book Tours, International.
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