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Infirm:

A novel of disease and resistance

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Infirm is a science fiction novel set in 2014. Fascists Christians run the country, everyone's dying of a plague, the economy has collapsed and a massive revolutionary war tears across the country. Against a backdrop of mass insurgency, a loose network of lesbian nurses, hiphop punk kids and hardcore guerrillas come together to try to find low-cost treatments for the plague. It's action packed, draws heavily from science fiction cliches, and has a ridiculous number of characters packed into about 73,000 words. Everyone who reads it seems to enjoy it; only a few think it's really good. I wrote it during the summer of 2001, before September 11. There is some drastic rewriting I intend to do with it, when my life calms down a bit. When I have a minute, I would like to make it into a quality story. I am lazily seeking a publisher.

The entire novel is available on the here. It is a pdf document, openable with Adobe Reader. The version posted here is formatted to efficiently use space, crammed into 67 dense pages. This version is updated as of Nov 2003. The only changes made since it's first draft from Sept 2001 are a few typographic corrections, mostly on the suggestion of Michal McCall.

This novel, like all the material on my website, is copywrited. Please ask my permission before any form of distribution, beyond a link to this site.