Author Chris Dolley writes that he has just made his novel, Resonance, available for free download in a variety of formats. The book was the first book “to be plucked from Baen’s electronic slushpile.” It was published in November 2005.
In the book, “Graham Smith is a 33 year-old office messenger. To the outside world he’s an obsessive-compulsive mute—weird but harmless. But to Graham Smith, it’s the world that’s weird. And far from harmless. He sees things others can’t… or won’t. He knows that roads can change course, people disappear, office blocks migrate across town. All at night when no one’s looking. The world’s an unstable place, still growing, sloughing off layers of reality like dead skin, its fabric wafer thin and in need of constant reinforcement. Over the years, that had become Graham’s job—to be The Observer, the one who walked the streets and helped bed them down, the one who lent substance to every building he passed by noting even the smallest detail.
“Annalise Mercado hears voices, all from girls calling themselves Annalise. Sometimes she thinks they’re spirit guides, sometimes she thinks she’s crazy. But then they tell her about Graham Smith and the men who want him dead. So begins the story of two people whose lives appear fragmented across alternate realities and how, together, they hold the key to the future of a billion planets.”
The book is available in the following formats: Mobipocket/Palm/Kindle, Ebookwise/Rocket, Microsoft Reader, Sony Digital Reader, and Zipped RTF, all from this page.
Dolley is a British writer currently living in France. In addition to writing books, he’s written computer games, performed in a band, acted in a few films, and restored a “semi-derelict farm complex in the Normandy-Maine Regional Park.” Baen also published his second book, Shift, in 2007.