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    The Midnight Gate
    The Midnight Gate
    The Midnight Gate
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    The Midnight Gate

    By Trent Jamieson

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    Cold winds blow across the dark hills some miles north of here and brush chill lips against the scattered and yellow bones of my father.

    I picture them there, in the goblin-field of my memory, wind and beast-gnawed bones, and I mourn the loss of everything that I held dear. Lost so long ago to the sigh and sorrow of those cold dark hills.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrent Jamieson
    Release dateFeb 5, 2013
    ISBN9781301349777
    The Midnight Gate
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    Trent Jamieson

    Trent Jamieson is an Australian Fantasy writer, and winner of two Aurealis Awards, whose Death Most Definite series is being published by Orbit and is already attracting rave notices. He works as a teacher, a bookseller and a writer and has taught at Clarion South where he was described as “the nicest guy in Australian Spec Fic” shattering the reputation he was trying to build as the “Hard Man of the Australian Writing Community”. Trent’s latest creation takes us to a dying land of decaying clockwork technology that is being devoured by a great rift in reality, the Roil.

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