No Hero (39 page)
Authors: Jonathan Wood
“Apparently so.”
I think about that. “You’re talking bollocks,” I say.
“No rest for the wicked.”
“But I’m good,” I say. This really doesn’t seem fair given that I saved the entire bloody world last night.
Shaw smiles again. “You’re not bad, Arthur. Not bad at all.” She rests a hand on my thigh. “Now get out of bed.”
I lie there, hesitating. I don’t want to get out of bed. I have to get out of bed.
Shaw looks down at me. She raises an eyebrow. Just the one. It’s a good look on her. “What?” she says. “You’re afraid of a zombie T-Rex? After the Feeder? I’d have thought you’d have grown a pair by now.”
And hearing that here, now, makes me a little sad. But it makes me smile too. Some things can never be regained. But we do what we can.
And anyway, with a zombie T-Rex on the loose, what would Kurt Russell do?
Jonathan Wood is an Englishman in New York. He is the author of the Lovecraftian urban fantasy novel,
No Hero,
named one of the best paranormal fantasy books of the last ten years by BarnesandNoble.com. He also writes odd little things that show up in odd little places, such as
The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Chizine,
and
Weird Tales.
The sequel to
No Hero, Yesterday’s Hero,
will be published by Titan Books in September 2014.
COMING SOON FROM TITAN BOOKS
BY JONATHAN WOOD
Another day. Another zombie T-Rex to put down. All part of the routine for Arthur Wallace and MI37—the government department devoted to defending Britain from threats magical, supernatural, extraterrestrial, and generally odd.
Except a zombie T-Rex is only the first of the problems about to trample, slavering and roaring, through Arthur’s life. Before he can say, “But didn’t I save the world yesterday?” a new co-director at MI37 is threatening his job, middle-aged Russian cyborg wizards are threatening his life, and his coworkers are threatening his sanity.
As Arthur struggles to unravel a plot to re-enact the Chernobyl disaster in England’s capital, he must not only battle foreign occult science but also struggle to keep the trust of his team. Events spiral out of control, friendships fray, and loyalties are tested to their breaking point.
SEPTEMBER 2014
COMING SOON FROM TITAN BOOKS
BY JONATHAN WOOD
MI317—the government department devoted to defending Britain from cosmic horrors and otherwordly threats—comes under attack. Again. A version of Clyde (2.0) has escaped onto the Internet, and Area 51 wants their help in catching it, sending over Agent Gran as their contact.
The team follow a lead to a trash dump in India, where they discover 2.0 in the mind of a child, a child who thinks that to save Earth he must destroy humanity. Cue the destruction of New York City by spore zombies.
Arthur’s team must now race to a small Arctic town — naturally populated entirely by zombies—in a last attempt to fix Clyde and save the world. Hopefully the half-vegetable life forms in the ice palace won’t prove too tricky.
MARCH 2015