Voyage of the Sable Keech

<B>“A powerhouse cocktail of lurid violence, evocative world-building and typically grotesque monsters.”—<I>SFX</I></B><BR><BR>The fast-paced adventures on the remote planet Spatterjay, a dangerous waterworld filled with lethal biology, continue in the sequel to The Skinner.<BR><BR>Sable Keech, a reification previously deceased for more than seven hundred years, is now a walking dead man, resurrected under mysterious circumstances that may have a lot to do with the virus native to the exotic but deadly remote ocean world Spatterjay. As word of his adventures (<I>The Skinner</I>) continue to spread, the planet has become a pilgrimage site for other reifs hoping to meet similar fates.<BR><BR>The allure of the virus—which promises something close to immortality, even if it comes at terrible biological cost—has brought other beings to the off-Polity world as well. An ancient hive mind may be after the poison “sprine” crucial to the virus’s im