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The Legion Machine
2021
First Published
3.90
Average Rating
93
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Hellbent on revenge, a lone bounty hunter named Angela Graves rides across the sunbaked wasteland in pursuit of her quarry. Between bloody run-ins with the elusive outlaw, her damaged organic parts are replaced with mechanical components. She finds herself in strange towns whose settings are as rugged and rustic as they are evolved and high-tech. She encounters old friends and new enemies along the way. She even makes an unexpected connection at a bot brothel between all the violence. But when an eccentric engineer shows Angela the legion machine—a terrible slumbering colossus secreted in a hollowed-out mountain—she thinks she has found the means to see vengeance served. But it will come at a horrible price. “Carlson plunges his reader into a meticulously crafted, futuristic, Wild West wasteland where robotic enhancements, nanotechnology, and the odd dose of “necrotechnology” serve in aiding his steely, vengeance-seeking heroine, Angela Graves, as well as her cohorts and an enemy or two. There are enough engaging, detailed surprises and double-crossings to entertain even the most jaded of western and science fiction aficionados. It’s a hell of a good time!” —Kenzie Jennings, author of RED STATION Includes the bonus short story A GIRL CALLED WEEKEND.

Avg Rating
3.90
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Author

James Carlson
James Carlson
Author · 5 books
James G. Carlson is an award-winning author of horror, science fiction, and dark fantasy. His short stories have appeared in various anthologies. He has released two collections of dark fiction, Seven Exhumations and The Ever-Descending Staircase, as well as three novellas, The Legion Machine, Midnight in the City of the Carrion Kid, and Red Falls (in the book Hacked in Two, with Daemon Manx). Most recently, Carlson has teamed up with fellow author Michael R. Collins for Miracles for Masochists, a collection featuring one collaborative tale and three shorts by each author. From the weird state of Pennsylvania, James drinks too much coffee and writes at a desk surrounded by animals and family in the mad zoo he calls home.
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