By Charles de Lint from Tom Doherty Associates

ANGEL OF DARKNESS

DREAMS UNDERFOOT

THE FAIR AT EMAIN MACHA

FORESTS OF THE HEART

FROM A WHISPER TO A SCREAM

GREENMANTLE

I’LL BE WATCHING YOU

INTO THE GREEN

THE IVORY AND THE HORN

JACK OF KINROWAN

THE LITTLE COUNTRY

MEMORY AND DREAM

MOONHEART

MOONLIGHT AND VINES

MULENGRO

THE ONION GIRL

SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING

SPIRITS IN THE WIRES

SPIRITWALK

SVAHA

TAPPING THE DREAM TREE

TRADER

THE WILD WOOD

YARROW

Spirits in the Wires

Charles de Lint

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.

SPIRITS IN THE WIRES

Copyright © 2003 by Charles de Lint

“Extract from the journals of Christy Riddell” first appeared as part of the limited edition chapbook, The Fields Beyond the Fields; Triskell Press, 1997.

Copyright © 1997 by Charles de Lint.

The lines from “Arabesque” are from the short story “Saskia,” which first appeared in Space Opera, edited by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough; DAW Books, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Charles de Lint.

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

De Lint, Charles, 1951-

Spirits in the wires / Charles de Lint.

p. cm.

“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”

ISBN 0-312-86971-1 (PBK)

EAN 978-0312-86971-7 (PBK)

1. Fantasy fiction, Canadian. 2. Technology—Fiction. I. Title.

PR9199.3D357S65 2003

813'.54—dc21                                                                                    2003041410

First Edition: August 2003

First Paperback Edition: September 2004

Printed in the United States of America

0987654321