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    Playing for Keeps was delivered via podcast in audio and PDF form and is now available in print from Swarm Press. It tells the story of Keepsie Branson, a bar owner in the shining metropolis of Seventh City: birthplace of super powers. Keepsie and her friends live among egotistical heroes and manipulative villains, and manage to fall directly in the middle as people with powers, but who just aren't strong enough to make a difference. Or that's what they've been told. As the city begins to melt down, it's hard to tell who are the good guys and who are the bad.

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Playing For Keeps full PDF with bonus story- PARASITE AWAKENS

Thanks to everyone who helped out with this, especially Paul Fischer and Martha Holloway!

This is the full book, including a new short story, Parasite Awakens.

He likes Pallas. He likes who he is when he experiences her life out of her eyes. And now he looks through her eyes at his own sleeping brown face as she peers at him through the crystal porthole in his stasis chamber.

After twenty years, Parasite will wake up.

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7 Comments

  1. Available August 25th: Mur Lafferty’s Playing for Keeps in Print | All the Billion Other Moments (Jason Penney) wrote on August 22nd, 2008 at 10:41 am:

    [...] to give the book a read right now? Then head on over and download the entire book in PDF, including a all new short story Parasite Awakens, not currently available anywhere [...]

  2. arrglarks? wrote on August 23rd, 2008 at 10:00 am:

    Playing For Keeps als PDF…

    Mur Lafferty hat gestern ihren genialen Superheldenroman Playing For Keeps komplett als ein PDF veröffentlicht. Bisher war die Story über Keepsie’s Kampf gegen die Superhelden bzw. -schurken als Podcast oder einzelne PDFs herunterzuladen.

    Als bes…

  3. Summer Sunday Stats #3 « The Unfocused Life wrote on August 24th, 2008 at 1:53 pm:

    [...] bonus short story in the same universe) in time for the launch of the print edition, and you can get it here. I originally read PFK in the PDF version, and I’m looking forward to re-reading it as a [...]

  4. Saint Nickanuck of the Tundra » Blog Archive » Playing for Keeps On-Sale Tomorrow wrote on August 24th, 2008 at 8:41 pm:

    [...] Still uncertain if the novel is a worthy purchase (oh, it is)? The full book, including all of the comic book-style covers from it’s initial podcast run, as well as an all-new short story, are available as a free pdf download. [...]

  5. DocDre wrote on August 26th, 2008 at 12:04 pm:

    thank you.

  6. Superhero novel needs your help to become #1 bestseller | MINE wrote on September 4th, 2008 at 8:29 am:

    [...] MINER) have created content for her podcast, and all of it’s damned spiffy. She also released a free PDF featuring the complete text of the book, so’s newcomers could take a gander at its goodness [...]

  7. #19 wrote on November 22nd, 2008 at 5:07 pm:

    [...] book was originally released as a (free) serialized audio book, then as a (free) PDF download, and then finally in print (not free) through Lulu.com, before it was picked up and published by [...]

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