82,389 words (≈ about 6 hours)
A violent, epic, action-packed urban quest full of very eccentric, often hilarious, extremely dangerous characters who also happen to be animals — the wildlife of New York City, to be exact. Winner of a 2011 ForeWord Book Of The Year Award. Published by the prestigious literary press The Porcupine's Quill.
"Fascinating ... humorous, horrifying ... artfully imagined and constructed ... gets at a lot of complex stuff without being heavy-handed." - ForeWord Reviews… (more)
Language: English
Written in: 2011
Published: 2011-10-20
Word count: 82,389 words (≈ about 6 hours)
License: Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (cc by-nc-nd)
Tags: beasts of new york, epic fantasy, urban fantasy, new york city, fantasy, Squirrels, quest
Jon Evans is a novelist, journalist, adventure traveller, and software engineer. His novels have won Arthur Ellis and ForeWord Book Of The Year awards, translation into half a dozen languages, and praise from The Economist, The Times, and The Washington Post.
Jon's journalism has appeared in Wired, Reader's Digest, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, and The Times Of India, and he writes a weekly column for TechCrunch.
Jon has released four of his novels - Beasts of New York, Invisible Armies, The Night of Knives, and Swarm - under a Creative Commons license; all can be freely downloaded from Feedbooks.
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