Skyler White
Skyler White writes angels and scientists, demons and revolutionaries, secret societies and sacred sex to play in the places where myth and modernity tangle.
OFFERINGS :: Lands of Sex & Magic (October 2013):
An episodic erotica set in the mythical Arcai and modern America
THE INCREMENTALISTS (Tor, September 2013, with Steven Brust): A secret society with an epic history and an almost magical memory must gather in Las Vegas to save itself ... and maybe the world
IN DREAMS BEGIN (Berkley, November 2010): A dark time-travel horror/romance set among luminaries of the late Victorian 'Golden Dawn' occult movement
AND FALLING, FLY (Berkley, March 2010): A dark fable of desire between a fallen angel and a self-medicating neuroscientist in a steampunk hell
“Beliefs are what you know without choosing to. Just believe.”
“The whole island is spotted with derelict cottages and abandoned churches like this one. They sit in pastures as invisible to the Irish as a mother is to a teenage girl.”
“I meet the answering machine’s small, steady stare. “What do you do when God tells you no?” I ask. But it doesn’t answer me, so I undress for bed”
“You’ll have to excuse Harry. He has what I call ‘chauffeured child syndrome.’ ” “He’s been driven all his life?” “That is correct. He has no drive of his own at all.”
“But he’s genuine twenty-first-century and only faking patience.”
“Tattooists are the new priests for the fucked-up and the thrown away. They speak the language of symbol, and administer penance in tiny metallic lashes.”