Excerpt from The Dream of Perpetual Motion by Dexter Palmer, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

“No,” I said. “Or maybe I have. I don’t know.”

“Oh, you’ll know when it comes,” the madman said. “I guarantee you that. You’ll be dead certain—”

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