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HISS WHISTLE DEAD
A New Novel in the Bridge Chronicles series starring Shel, an Excavator last seen in Tales from the Bridge Chronicles, Vol. 1. eBook and Paperback releases Dec. 7th, 2024
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PAYCHECK EUPHORIA
The latest novel in the Bridge Chronicles cyberpunk series, Paycheck Euphoria, has been released! Available now in eBook and Paperback on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords, the sixth(6th) novel in the series is a mixture of thrilling heist and scathing criticism of the corporate city-states of the 2030's!
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Cyberpunk Novels and Short Stories by Independent Author Gary Ballard
The Bridge Chronicles, starring the witty amoral fixer Artemis Bridge, is a series of cyberpunk books self-published by independent Mississippi science fiction author Gary A. Ballard. Beginning as a blog in 2008, Under the Amoral Bridge was published in 2009 as a full novel. Followed up by the sequel, The Know Circuit, if [tribe] =, The Long and the Short Swords, and Reclamation, each book in the series has been well-reviewed by readers and critics alike. The sixth novel, Paycheck Euphoria, was released in September of 2021.
On New Year's Eve, 2011, Ballard released a collection of short stories set in the universe called Tales from the Bridge Chronicles, Volume 1. On September 25, 2024, a side novel starring the protagonist of the short story The Excavator, Shel, will be released. Called Hiss Whistle Dead, this 15-part novel is set to be released on the Kindle Vella format before being compiled into one eBook and paperback.
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