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Petrogypsies by Rory Harper List Price: $15.95 Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-0-9819866-1-6 DarkStar Books-December 2009 Cover painting by Brad Foster interior illustrations by Jason Carranza DarkStar Books Website: http://www.darkstarbooks.net For Sprocket and Henry Lee, it was love at first blow-out ... Henry Lee MacFarland is a big ugly man, a farmer who is so strong that he has to be gentle, whether he's dealing with livestock or with normal people. Sprocket is a hundred and twelve feet of healthy young male Driller, dark as a moonless night, with a spiked tongue that can bore four miles into the earth in his relentless quest for the thing he loves best--Texas heavy crude oil. Doc, Razer, Big Mac, and the others in Sprocket's crew are the roughest, rowdiest bunch in the oilpatch. They live inside of Sprocket's body and travel like gypsies from one drilling job to another. They work like animals. Party like 'em, too. Then there's Star, the stunning Casing gypsy who has a hankering for fine cigars, a killer instinct at poker, and a taste for big, ugly, strong men. Looking for adventure, Henry Lee leaves the farm behind and signs on with Sprocket's crew. He gets a helluva lot more "adventure"--as in monsters, mayhem, and murder--than he bargained for. Bibliographic Information:

Petrogypsies a revised, trade paperback version of the original, critically-acclaimed science fiction novel published in mass market in 1989 by Baen Books. The new cover art is the work of Hugo Award winning artist Brad Foster. DarkStar Books and Rory Harper will continue the series in two more new books, Sprocket Goes International and Sprocket Goes interstellar. Reviews and Links:

"Rory Harper's sensibility is warm, earthy, whimsical, cleverly off-center, and, when he wants it to be, bawdy as all get out ... Petrogypsies is a blue-collar, red-neck world where folks sweat and love and work and get hurt ... Petrogypsies has got to be one of the most auspicious debuts of the year." -- Ed Bryant, Locus Magazine 1989 A Newsvine.com review of Petrogypsies by Falkeep Play Zombie Tunes by Rory Harper from EatOurBrains.com Downloads

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