grew up in a rented beach house on the north shore of Oahu. She graduated from the University of Hawaii with a degree in zoology and worked for a time at Haleakala National Park on the island of Maui, where she continues to live with her husband in their long-time home. She’s been a writer, a mom, a programmer of database-driven websites, and lately a publisher and book designer. She is the author of nine novels, all available at Book View Café. Her work includes The Bohr Maker, Locus Award winner for best first novel, and the novella “Goddesses,” winner of the Nebula award for best novella and available in the collection Goddesses & Other Stories. Her most recent work is the don’t-miss, dark fantasy duology, Stories of the Puzzle Lands.
Ebooks by Linda Nagata
The Dread Hammer
Stories of the Puzzle Lands – Book 1
by Linda Nagata
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-937197-08-7
A tale of love, war, murder, marriage, and fate.
Ketty is a pretty shepherdess with a contrary nature, who runs away from home to escape an unwanted marriage. As she flees along the forest road, she prays to the Dread Hammer for help—and to her astonishment help comes in the form of a charming and well-armed young murderer named Smoke. As Ketty soon discovers, Smoke is not entirely human.
Hepen The Watcher
Stories of the Puzzle Lands – Book 2
by Linda Nagata
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-937197-09-4
A tale of exile, rebellion, fidelity, and fire.
The demon Dismay’s murderous nature has earned him the ire of his beloved wife, who has sent him away in a fit of temper. In his exile he ventures south into the land of Lutawa, drawn there by the prayers of abused and desperate women who beg him to grant them vengeance against the men who cruelly rule their lives—and Dismay is pleased to do it.
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Skye Object 3270a
by Linda Nagata
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-0-9831100-4-0
High-tech, far-future, science fiction adventure for advanced middle grade and YA readers.
In an isolated star system far from any other human outposts, a space-faring “lifeboat” was discovered by a scientist from the city of Silk. Inside the lifeboat was a two-year-old girl in frozen sleep. She had no name and no history. The people of Silk believed her to be the only survivor of a star-faring great ship attacked in the void and destroyed by the automated warships of the alien Chenzeme. They rescued and revived the child, and named her “Skye.”
Goddesses & Other Stories
by Linda Nagata
$3.95 (Story Collection) ISBN 978-1-937197-05-6
Ten science fiction stories by acclaimed author Linda Nagata, including the Nebula Award winning novella “Goddesses.” This collection brings together for the first time Nagata’s short fiction, originally published in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, More Amazing Stories, and SciFi.com.
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Tech-Heaven
A Prequel to the Nanotech Succession
by Linda Nagata
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-0-9831100-0-2
For Katie Kishida, the nanotechnology revolution begins with an act of love.
Katie is a young mother with a successful career and a loving marriage, when her perfect life is shattered by the sudden death of her husband, Tom. Putting her faith in a science that hasn’t been invented yet, Katie has Tom’s body placed in cryonic suspension—frozen in liquid nitrogen against a time when advances in nanotechnology might heal his injuries and restore his life.
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The Bohr Maker
Book 1 of the Nanotech Succession
by Linda Nagata
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-0-9831100-1-9
A brilliantly original, fast-paced thriller, The Bohr Maker won the Locus Award for Best First Novel.
Nikko is the first true “post human”—a man genetically engineered to survive in the airless void of space—but the research permit that allows his existence is about to expire.
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Deception Well
Book 2 of the Nanotech Succession
by Linda Nagata
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-0-9831100-2-6
In a war of belief, faith is a virus, and it’s spreading fast.
Remnants of an alien nanotechnology infest the surface of the planet, Deception Well, giving rise to deadly plagues that make the Well uninhabitable—or so most believe. Jupiter Apolinario saw it differently. He believed the planet was host to an ancient, alien mechanism of transformation meant to embrace all life forms
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Vast
Book 3 of The Nanotech Succession
by Linda Nagata
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-0-9831100-3-3
In pursuit of vengeance across time and space…
Aboard Null Boundary, a giant starship thousands of years old, four survivors of an ancient alien war are making a desperate journey: Lot, son of a fiery prophet and carrier of an insidious virus that spreads a cult-like religious mania among those it infects; Urban, Lot’s boyhood friend from the city of Silk, and a man in search of challenge and adventure
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Memory
by Linda Nagata
$5.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-0-9831100-8-8
A quest, a puzzle, and multiple lives:
Jubilee is a bold young woman of seventeen, on the cusp of leaving the security of her family home to seek out her own future. But her life is thrown into tumult by a visit from a forbidding stranger who has come looking for Jubilee’s beloved brother, Jolly—who is seven years dead.
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Limit of Vision
by Linda Nagata
$5.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-0-9831100-6-4
Survive long enough, and strangeness becomes cliché.
Virgil Copeland, Randall Panwar, and Gabrielle Villanti are all brilliant young biotechnologists, working together on an artificial life-form affectionately known as “LOVs,” an acronym for Limit Of Vision, because in size LOVs are just at the boundary of what the human eye can easily see. LOVs contain bioengineered human neurons. They enhance brain function when implanted in test animals. Experimentation on humans is, of course, highly illegal.
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