So could she put his past behind her and look toward a future together?
Rationally, she said yes. She didn’t fear him. Not in the least. Here was a man who would lay down his life for her or Marissa without a second thought.
Emotionally, though, she still didn’t know.
But she wasn’t going to find out sitting down here, was she?
Laura rose and headed up to the bridge. She didn’t expect an easy fix, but they had hundreds of miles of water ahead to work out … something.
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE WORLD
The preponderance of my work deals with a history of the world that remains undiscovered, unexplored, and unknown to most of humanity. Some of this secret history has been revealed in the Adversary Cycle, some in the Repairman Jack novels, and bits and pieces in other, seemingly unconnected works. Taken together, even these millions of words barely scratch the surface of what has been going on behind the scenes, hidden from the workaday world. I’ve listed them below in chronological order. (NB: “Year Zero” is the end of civilization as we know it; “Year Zero Minus One” is the year preceding it, etc.)
The God Gene is part of the Secret History.
THE PAST
“Demonsong” (prehistory)
“The Compendium of Srem” (1498)
“Aryans and Absinthe”** (1923–1924)
Black Wind (1926–1945)
The Keep (1941)
Reborn (February–March 1968)
“Dat Tay Vao”*** (March 1968)
Jack: Secret Histories (1983)
Jack: Secret Circles (1983)
Jack: Secret Vengeance (1983)
“Faces”* (1988)
Cold City (1990)
Dark City (1991)
Fear City (1993)
YEAR ZERO MINUS THREE
Sibs (February)
The Tomb (summer)
“The Barrens”* (ends in September)
“A Day in the Life”* (October)
“The Long Way Home”+
Legacies (December)
YEAR ZERO MINUS TWO
“Interlude at Duane’s”** (April)
Conspiracies (April) (includes “Home Repairs”+)
All the Rage (May) (includes “The Last Rakosh”+)
Hosts (June)
The Haunted Air (August)
Gateways (September)
Crisscross (November)
Infernal (December)
YEAR ZERO MINUS ONE
Harbingers (January)
“Infernal Night”+ + (with Heather Graham)
Bloodline (April)
The Fifth Harmonic (April)
Panacea (April)
The God Gene (May)
By the Sword (May)
Ground Zero (July)
The Touch (ends in August)
The Peabody-Ozymandias Traveling Circus & Oddity Emporium (ends in September)
“Tenants”*
YEAR ZERO
“Pelts”*
Reprisal (ends in February)
Fatal Error (February) (includes “The Wringer”+)
The Dark at the End (March)
Nightworld (May)
* available in The Barrens and Others
** available in Aftershock and Others
*** available in the 2009 reissue of The Touch
+ available in Quick Fixes—Tales of Repairman Jack
+ + available in Face Off
ALSO BY F. PAUL WILSON
Repairman Jack*
The Tomb / Legacies / Conspiracies / All the Rage / Hosts / The Haunted Air / Gateways / Crisscross / Infernal / Harbingers / Bloodline / By the Sword / Ground Zero / Fatal Error / The Dark at the End / Nightworld
The Teen Trilogy*
Jack: Secret Histories / Jack: Secret Circles / Jack: Secret Vengeance
The Early Years Trilogy*
Cold City / Dark City / Fear City
The Adversary Cycle*
The Keep / The Tomb / The Touch / Reborn / Reprisal / Nightworld
Omnibus Editions
The Complete LaNague / Calling Dr. Death (3 medical thrillers)
The LaNague Federation
Healer / Wheels Within Wheels / An Enemy of the State / Dydeetown World / The Tery
Other Novels
Black Wind* / Sibs* / The Select / Virgin / Implant / Deep as the Marrow / Mirage (with Matthew J. Costello) / Nightkill (with Steven Spruill) / Masque (with Matthew J. Costello) / Sims / The Fifth Harmonic* / Midnight Mass / The Proteus Cure (with Tracy L. Carbone) / A Necessary End (with Sarah Pinborough) / Panacea* / The God Gene
The Nocturnia Chronicles (with Thomas F. Monteleone)
Definitely Not Kansas / Family Secrets / The Silent Ones
Short Fiction
Soft & Others / The Barrens and Others / The Christmas Thingy / Aftershock and Others / The Peabody-Ozymandias Traveling Circus & Oddity Emporium* / Quick Fixes—Tales of Repairman Jack* / Sex Slaves of the Dragon Tong / Ephemerata
Editor
Freak Show / Diagnosis: Terminal / The Hogben Chronicles (with Pierce Watters)
* See “The Secret History of the World” (here).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
F. PAUL WILSON is the New York Times bestselling author of the Repairman Jack novels and a winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. He continues to practice as a physician and lives in Wall, New Jersey.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Acknowledgments
Then: Sunday, May 8
Now: Tuesday, May 17
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Then: Tuesday, May 10
Now: Wednesday, May 18
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Then: Monday, May 16
Now: Thursday, May 19
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Friday: May 20
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Saturday: May 21
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Sunday: May 22
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Tuesday: May 24
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Wednesday: May 25
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Thursday: May 26
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapt
er 13
The Secret History of the World
Also by F. Paul Wilson
About the Author
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
THE GOD GENE
Copyright © 2017 by F. Paul Wilson
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