Machineries of Silence

The Song Her Heart Sang Night of Falling Stars Ghosts of Love The Odalisque From the enchanting and brave quest in The Song Her Heart Sang, to the ingenious and powerful Odalisque, the dark powers of Night of Falling Stars and the mournful Ghosts of Love, here is a collection of finely wrought tales with a strong sense of their shared world. This is heroic fantasy. These are epic tales of swords and sorcery. "Lukas Mey is in love. Unfortunately, men in love don’t always make the brightest decisions which Lukas learns firsthand when a miracle gift becomes instead a curse. To right the wrong, Lukas sets out on a fool’s quest into the haunted remnants of Sahnglain in search of a fabled treasure that would win back Lili’s heart. What he finds there is much more than he ever bargained for… Blending elements of romance, horror and fantasy, “The Song Her Heart Sang” was a bittersweet love story that stayed with me long after I finished reading it…" FANTASY BOOK CRITIC "Reading Steven Savile has always been a pleasure, and “Night of Falling Stars,” the first story in issue #6 of Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, is no exception. With lines like “the red sky bleeding to death for another day” Savile wraps not just the story around the reader, but the language itself…" The FIX Selected by Dave Trusdale of Tangent as one of the Top 50 stories of the Year, 2007 and the BLACK GATE recommended reading list. The Song Her Heart Sang -- Appeared in the Solaris Book of New Fantasy, 2007 Night of Falling Stars -- Appeared in Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, 2007 Ghosts of Love -- Appeared in Worlds of Their Own, Piazo, 2007 The Odalisque -- never appeared in print ABOUT THE AUTHOR Steven Savile was a runner up in the 2000 British Fantasy Awards, a winner of a 2002 Writers of the Future Award, and the 2008 Scribe Award for Best Young Adult Novel for his novel Shadow of the Jaguar. He has written for Dr Who, Torchwood, Stargate, Primeval, Warhammer, Sláine, and other popular media franchises, including roleplaying games and comics. He currently has a TV series in development in the US. His novel SILVER was a #2 Bestseller on Amazon in the UK in the Spring of 2011 and sold over 40,000 copies on the kindle.