James Patrick Kelly’s acclaimed BURN, the latest offering from Tachyon’s Particle Books e-book imprint, is now available through the Tachyon site or any major digital retailer.

• Nebula Award Winner
• Hugo Award Nominee

Digital edition featuring a new afterword from the author

“Burn is James Patrick Kelly at his best, and there’s nothing better.”
—Connie Willis, author of Doomsday Book

Photo: Jim Clemente

The tiny planet Morobe’s Pea has been sold and renamed Walden. The new owner has some interesting ideas. Voluntary simplicity will rule in the Transcendent State; Walden is destined to become a paradise covered in lush new forests.

But even believers find temptations in the black markets; non-believers are willing to defend their ideals with fire. Walden’s only hope may lie with a third option: a very unlikely alien intervention.

In BURN, James Patrick Kelly (Think Like a Dinosaur) delivers an innovative, entertaining, and morally-complex vision of the perils of idealism.

Tachyon’s Particle Books e-book imprint highlights excellent imaginative fiction. The titles, or Particles, include both young adult and adult fiction; subgenres will include science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, and thrillers.

Lovingly-curated, the Particles are a dynamic mix of original, newly-collected, hard to find, and out-of-print material.  

Particle Books was named as an homage to the faster-than-light (and as of now hypothetical) tachyon particle, perhaps best known from Star Trek.

Over the next couple of months, the first wave of extraordinary titles from Mary Shelley, Joe R. Lansdale, James Morrow, Jane Yolen, and Michael Cadnum will hit the virtual shelves.

For more info about BURN, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Picacio