Excerpts from the Book 'Le Jardin Des Os':

... Enterprise. We are technocrats who are one step away from priests, and we hold our rituals and sacred places dear. Such as the Weeping Rooms. This ...
... who have no family do not go unmourned. The Weeping Rooms are lined with neural inductors, modified fetal cerebral-cell-wrapped nanofilaments that ...
... a diver by trade (as was my father), and I tend Le Jardin des Os, the Bone Gardens, harvesting femurs, skull caps, and phalanges from coral clumps growing ...
... Pale, force-grown flesh clusters on a massive stainless-steel matrix, like quivering clumps of tofu. Speed-grown from vats of specially-treated ...
... or distracted, it simply will not take. This was my state of mind that day of my sin. I was distracted by an important piece of news: Jericho Dauphine-Gordini - ...
... of many small nations pass through Immortality Enterprise's bank accounts every year. And, rightly, some of that should belong to my brother and me. Our ...
... hunger cannot be filled until they know that they are utterly alone in their success. This was Gordini's relationship to my father, the man who created ...
... of the job. I, for better or worse, am more like Gordini and could never accept the unfairness of our state - or his. I knew that sooner or ...
... and organic runoff from dying and corrupt bodies. The stuff is piped into steel storage tanks before being redirected to the filtration system. The storage ...
... bone cluster. This was my beauty, the largest, most perfect rose in my garden, and the only collection of bones worthy of an Enterprise ...
... patience. I felt as if I'd been holding my breath for my entire life and could suddenly breathe for the first time. At the end of each work day, ...
... And when he dies and his body re-enters the Enterprise, I will poison him again. This is the aspect of immortality that neither Gordini nor ...
... Richard Kadrey ...