• “The smartest historical sci-fi adventure-romance story ever written by a science Ph.D. with a background in scripting 'Scrooge McDuck' comics.”—Salon.com
  • A time-hopping, continent-spanning salmagundi of genres.”
    —ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
  • “These books have to be word-of-mouth books because they're too weird to describe to anybody.”
    —Jackie Cantor, Diana's first editor

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Thank you! And if you don’t want to read excerpts, stop NOW…!

Dear All– Many thanks to the dedicated (that sounds so much better than, say, “obsessed,” let alone “clinically deranged”) souls who did so much in championing me to the first place in the National Book Festival’s Favorite Author poll! I would not, of course, want to be accused of bribery, even _ex post facto_, so I won’t say this is a reward for such a gallant effort [g] But as I’ve been reading these excerpts from Book Eight at the various events this week, I thought it was only fair to share them with those who couldn’t make it to one or another of the book-tour appearances. [Meaning–if you want to avoid excerpts from Book Eight… STOP … READING… NOW… Still with me? [g] Well, alrighty, then! Book Eight excerptCopyright 2010 Diana Gabaldon JEM IN THE TUNNEL He must be getting near the end of the tunnel. Jem could tell by the way the air pushed back against his face. All he could see was the little red light on […]