Solaris Books plans to serialize Chris Roberson‘s new novel, Three Unbroken, for free on their web site. The book is “the next epic novel in the Celestial Empire sequence and details the explosive war between the Chinese and Aztec empires as they battle for control of the red planet, Fire Star.” The events in Three Unbroken are “contemporaneous with those of The Dragon’s Nine Sons, the first novel in the sequence,” which Solaris will publish in February 2008. Three Unbroken is “based on the sixty-four elements of the I-Ching [and] follows the lives of three soldiers from their induction into the armed forces to their eventual fight for survival on the frontline.”
Solaris will serialize the book at the rate of two chapters per week, starting in late November 2007. They’ll publish the novel in paper in 2009. For more details, which should be forthcoming, see www.solarisbooks.com.