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Authors: Christopher Golden
They passed a large market that the driver said had been gutted by fire soon after the flood. There was a small crowd of people on the sidewalk in front of the building, a few of them standing behind trestle tables piled high with bottled water, gas canisters, food containers, clothes in boxes, a hundred more things. The others browsed in front of the tables, and here and there money was changing hands.
“They're managing,” the young driver said. “Can't never beat the storm, but can't let it win, either.”
“It's all about balance,” Max muttered.
“Yeah,” the driver said.
“Yeah!”And
he drove the rest of the way in contemplative silence.
A while before they reached the airport Max drifted off to sleep. In his dream, Gabrielle still loved him.
And when he awoke, she was still alive.
CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN’S novels include
The Lost Ones, The Myth Hunters, Wildwood Road, The Boys Are Back in Town, The Ferryman, Strangewood, Of Saints and Shadows,
and
The Bor-derkind.
Golden co-wrote the lavishly illustrated novel
Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire
with Mike Mignola, and they are currently scripting it as a feature film for New Regency. He has also written books for teens and young adults, including the thriller series
Body of Evidence,
honored by the New York Public Library and chosen as one of YALSA's Best Books for Young Readers. Upcoming teen novels include
Poison Ink
for Delacorte,
Soulless
for MTV Books, and
The Secret Journeys of Jack London,
a collaboration with Tim Lebbon. With Thomas E. Sniegoski, he is the coauthor of the dark fantasy series
The Menagerie
as well as the young readers fantasy series
OutCast
and the comic book miniseries
Talent,
both of which were recently acquired by Universal Pictures. Golden and Sniegoski also wrote the upcoming comic book miniseries
The Sisterhood,
currently in development as a feature film. Golden was born and raised
in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. Please visit him at
www.christophergolden.com
.
TIM LEBBON lives in South Wales with his wife and two children. His books include the British Fantasy Award-winning
Dusk
and its sequel
Dawn, Fallen, Berserk, The Everlasting, Hellboy: Unnatural Selection,
and the
New York Times
bestseller
30 Days of Night.
Forthcoming books include the new fantasy novel
The Island,
two YA novels making up
The Secret Journeys of Jack London
(in collaboration with Christopher Golden), the collection
Last Exit for the Lost
from Cemetery Dance Publications, and further books with Night Shade Books, Necessary Evil Press, and Humdrumming, among others. He has won three British Fantasy Awards, a Bram Stoker Award, a Shocker, and a Tombstone Award, and has been a finalist for International Horror Guild and World Fantasy awards. His novella
White
is soon to be a major Hollywood movie, and several other novels and novellas are currently in development in the US and the UK. Find out more about Tim at his websites:
www.timlebbon.net
and
www.noreela.com
.
THE MAP OF MOMENTS
A Bantam Book / February 2009
Bantam Books and the rooster colophon are registered trademarks of
Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Golden, Christopher.
The map of moments / Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-553-90607-3
1. New Orleans (La.)—Fiction. 2. Hurricane Katrina, 2005—Fiction. I. Lebbon,
Tim. II. Title.
PS3557.O35927M37 2009
813'.54—dc22
2008034913
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