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October 19, 2023

OUT NOW: "Where the God-Knives Tread" Part 2 (finale)

Ghost planets. Lost shipwrecks. Bloody secrets.

Thousand Dancing Beetles beckoned. The dazzling mosaic stretched the full width of the ballroom floor, rendering the image of the ship’s namesake in millions of colored tiles the size of Sien’s thumb. The ballroom floor was cream but the god-guardian’s visage was a thick blue-black, peering up through the shadows. It was a beast of many legs, disjointed angles, far-reaching grasp, and an odd, segmented quality in its form, as though pixelated or abstract.

And it didn’t resemble any beetle Sien knew. But that didn’t matter. What mattered lay in the center of the mosaic, the belly of the beast, and it glinted in the dim light with an unnatural shine.

“Where the God-Knives Tread,” is now out at Lightspeed Magazine!

Where to find it:

  • Read the entire story right now (on your e-reader of choice) by purchasing the issue.

    • Weightless Books

    • B&N

    • Apple Books

    • Amazon

  • Read Part 2 online by clicking here.

  • Listen to Part 2 (narrated by frequent Star Trek guest star Paul Boehmer) by either visiting the magazine website or listening on iTunes or Spotify.

“Something poured out of the hole…”

Promotional cover for “Where the God-Knives Tread” by A.L. Goldfuss. An aerial view of a person in a spacesuit shining their headlamp over a huge floor mosaic of a spider-crab creature with a large purple gem for an eye. Art by Sou Alexander.

Promotional cover art by Sou Alexander.

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