 Night Shade Books has just published Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams. To celebrate the release, they've posted an excerpt from the novel, an interview with Williams, and the complete text of his Nebula Award-winning novella "The Green Leopard Plague" (all in a variety of formats, including pdf, html, rtf, and MobiPocket). The downloads are all available from Night Shade's Downloads Page.
Publicist John Joseph Adams describes the novel: "Aristide, a semi-retired computer scientist turned swordsman, is a scholar of the implied spaces, seeking meaning amid the accidents of architecture in a universe where reality itself has been sculpted and designed by superhuman machine intelligence. While exploring the pre-technological world Midgarth, one of four dozen pocket universes created within a series of vast, orbital matrioshka computer arrays, Aristide uncovers a fiendish plot threatening to set off a nightmare scenario, perhaps even bringing about the ultimate Existential Crisis: the end of civilization itself.
"Traveling the pocket universes with his wormhole-edged sword Tecmessa in hand and talking cat Bitsy, avatar of the planet-sized computer Endora, at his side, Aristide must find a way to save the multiverse from subversion, sabotage, and certain destruction."
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