Year of the Hare

by Mark Finn

Sam Bowen is half-shaman, half-witch, and all rogue. He has wandered all over the country on a desperate to find the source of the curse that has destroyed his family and reverse it, if he can. Now, in the magic-steeped city of San Cibola, he may finally uncover the answers he seeks.

As Bowen comes to grips with his new home in San Cibola’s Chinatown, strange obligations to his adopted family put him in harm’s way over and over again. Will Bowen master the dangers of the big city, or will his personal demons overwhelm him?

Year of the Hare is a fast, action-packed, post-modern pulp story with surprises and a wry quip around every corner.

304 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2001

About the author

Mark Finn is an author, an editor, and a pop culture critic. He is a nationally-recognized authority on Robert E. Howard and has written extensively about the Texas author. His work has appeared in publications for the Robert E. Howard Foundation Press, Dark Horse Comics, Boom! Comics, The Cimmerian, REH: Two-Gun Raconteur, The Howard Review, Wildside Press, Centipede Press, The University of Texas press, Greenwood Press, Scarecrow Press, The Dark Man: The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies and elsewhere. Finn has presented several papers about Howard to the PCA/ACA National conference, the AWC, and he continues to lecture and perform readings regularly.

Finn also writes comics and novels, as well as articles, essays, reviews, short stories and role playing games for Playboy.com, RevolutionSF.com, Dark Horse Comics, DC/Vertigo Comics, Monkeybrain Books, Sky Warrior Books, F.A.C.T. Publications, Tachyon Press, Modiphius Press, and others. Finn’s fiction can be found in Ray Guns Over Texas, Road Trip, Tails From the Pack, Empty Hearts, Heroika: Dragon Eaters, Barbarian Crowns, Asian Pulp, and Fight Card: The Adventures of Sailor Tom Sharkey, and elsewhere.

He is a managing editor for Skelos Press, and he podcasts for The Gentlemen Nerds. When he is not waxing eloquent about popular culture, he writes comics and fiction, dabbles in magic, and produces and performs community theater. He lives in North Texas atop an old movie theater with far too many books and an affable pit bull named Sonya.

Reviews

[Catherine · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the kind of book that makes wish there was a rating called, "A-fucking-mazing."

[Riju Ganguly · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the story of Sam Bowen— after he came to San Cibola's Chinatown. It's a strange place, with weirdness practically leaping at you from various nooks and corners. Bowen has lots of adventures as well as recollections there and elsewhere. Those tales have been narrated in the following episodes~
1. Welcome to San Cibola;
2. The Kindness of Strangers;
3. Roots;
4. The Ghost Walk;
5. Year of the hare;
6. Family Business;
7. Bad Blood;
8. Follow a Hunch;
9. The Kingdom of Strangers, First Refrain;
10. The Dragon in Repose;
11. Night of the Stomp;
12. Endgame.
As it turned out, all these adventures made up a large story-arc that eventually resulted in Bowen becoming part of a family.
It was formulaic, pulpy, and entertainig. Let's see if the next volume can entertain me more or not.

[Adrian Simmons · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent collection of stories related to sorcerer Sam Bowen's adventures in the remarkable city of San Cibola.

[Henry]

Ummm

[Sam · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mark wrote it.