Starship Castle

I saw an ad, and I clicked on it. Not an exceptionally rare occurrence, but not something that happens every day. Turns out Tor.com has posted chapter one of Norse Code by Greg van Eekhout. You’ll have to decide for yourself whether to read the preview, but the description itself is reason enough to check out the post. Highlights:

The NorseCODE genome project was designed to identify descendants of Odin. What it found was Kathy Castillo, a murdered MBA student brought back from the dead to serve as a valkyrie in the Norse god’s army. Given a sword and a new name, Mist’s job is to recruit soldiers for the war between the gods at the end of the world—and to kill those who refuse to fight.