Pre-Pub Copies of Tombs Received, PDF Free for Reviews

Saith the back cover blub: It had been a time when the world needed legends, those years so long past now. Because there was something else legends could offer, or so the Poet believed. He didn’t know quite what–ghouls were not skilled at imagination. Their world was a concrete one, one of stone and flesh. Struggle and survival. Survival predicated on others’ deaths. Far in the future, when our sun grows ever larger, scorching the earth. When seas become poisonous and men are needed to guard the crypts from the scavengers of the dead. A ghoul-poet will share stories of love and loss, death and resurrection. Tombs is a beautifully written examination of the human condition of life, love, and death, through the prism of a dystopian apocalypse.

The book, TOMBS: A CHRONICLE OF LATTER-DAY TIMES OF EARTH in a new edition by Alien Buddha Press (see January 18, et al.), and with early copies arrived on Monday prior to a March 3 official release.

It is a reprint originally published in 2017 by Elder Signs Press, but out of print now due to Elder Signs subsequent demise, with a quasi-mysterious Amazon notice hinting at possible supply chain problems. That is until now — or at least early March — with this new edition, new cover and all, but with every story word-for-word intact. And not just that, it’s more than a collection: it’s actually a novel-in-stories presenting, as its subtitle implies, a history of a far-flung future demise of Earth, or at least its inhabitants, including as well as “mainstream” humans, those of the New City, the boat people who ply the great river between it and its necropolis, the Tombs, and the ghouls who live in the ruins of Old City and persevere by eating the dead.

But comes the pitch: TOMBS will be available in hard copy only after it’s published, but there are a limited number of PDF editors’ copies available now, in exchange for writing an honest review to be sent to Amazon and to Goodreads when the book is out next month. To obtain one, for free, you can contact the author via edgarc@rocketmail.com, with a subject line reading “TOMBS REVIEW COPY.”