One can never have too many books—and now Subterranean Press is offering a way to add more to your collection. The press has started a series of free ebooks, “at the interval of once every month or so, for the foreseeable future.” Some will be reprints, some brand-new tales—and this month’s offering falls into the latter group. K.J. Parker’s No Choice is a novelette being published for the first time.
Here’s the summary:
Set in the tantalizingly detailed world of much of his other work, No Choice tells the story of a narrator from a landed and politically connected family with a history of losing scions in battle.
At first, it isn’t a stalled and seemingly doomed war that concerns the main character, but the fact that his father has been sentenced to death for a murder he most definitely did commit. Political maneuvering and family dynamics come in to play, but to no avail, so off to the wars the narrator sails.
There, he conceives a series of nested plans that may very well preserve the life of a man who deserves to die, win a war that nobody should be fighting, and maybe, just maybe, save his own skin in the bargain.
Subterranean’s ebooks are offered in DRM-free ePub format. You can download this one here—for a limited time, after which something new will be on offer!
