A Collection of First Chapters
First Chapter: The Lottery Ticket
March 26, 2008
Bad things can happen to good people, OK? I'm
cool with that, although I'm not cool with what
happened to Mom and Dad. I never figured anybody
would do anything to get somebody else's lottery
First Chapter: I Am Marjan
A tale of magic realism about an extraordinary lion
PROLOGUE
I am Marjan, son of the one-eyed lion from Kabul.
My story begins in Köln, Germany, where I was born in the local zoo a year and a half before my father’s death. He was, according
First Chapter: Grok
A huge, sprawling novel about the quest to solve the elusive Turing Test (708 pp)
By Tom Maremaa
She was sitting by the edge of the pool in the sweltering heat of LA, her feet dan-
gling happily in the water. It was noon: any minute now the band was due to show
up. She needed
First Chapter: Imagined
A novel about the second coming of John Lennon (177 pp)
By Tom Maremaa
Prologue
Things could not have got much worse that year. My marriage had broken up
and I’d lost custody of my son in a legal fight that had left me drained of ener-
gy and
Read an excerpt from Tom’s current and forthcoming works of fiction, along with author’s notes in the margins. Click the images in the right-hand column to read those first chapters and enjoy!
