Stark Holborn is a novelist and games writer from Bristol, UK. Stark is the author of the Factus Sequence, the Triggernometry series and the groundbreaking digital serial, Nunslinger. Stark's fiction has been nominated for the British Fantasy Awards, the BSFA Awards and the New Media Writing Prize.

Stark is currently lead writer on the immersive detective game Shadows of Doubt and a contributing writer to the upcoming cyberpunk sim, Nivalis.

Advanced Triggernometry by Stark Holborn

That gold you stole will burn a hole in your heart…

After pulling off the heist of the century, Professor Malago Browne and Pierre de Fermat are determined to hang up their protractors for good. But once you've been the most dangerous mathematician in the west, peace doesn't come easy…

When three women approach Browne with a proposition, she can't help but listen. Terrorised by a corrupt sheriff and his posse, the town need to hire the quickest and deadliest fighters they can find: in other words, mathmos.

Together with six unlikely allies, Browne once again finds herself facing incalculable odds in a battle for the town, its people, and the fate of every mathematician in the Western States.

And seven isn't always a lucky number…

The second novella in Stark Holborn's series, Advanced Triggernometry mixes the grit of the west with a cast of mathematicians from across history to create a truly unique and unforgettable adventure.

CURATOR'S NOTE

Stark's Wild West with mathematicians is one of my favourite worlds – so come take a wild ride into the unknown with some advanced triggernometry! – Lavie Tidhar

 

REVIEWS

  • "Clever, funny, subversive, wholly original, and packs a bigger punch than a Colt Peacemaker."

    – Joanne Harris, author of The Testament of Loki, The Strawberry Thief, Chocolat & many more

  • "In Triggernometry and Advanced Triggernometry, Holborn has taken another inspired concept forward, with fast paced plotting, compelling characters and dazzling prose."

    – Fantast Hive

  • "Totally unique… It's like Sergio Leone and William Gibson rewriting the Old West with a quantum calculator"

    – Maxim Jakubowski
 

BOOK PREVIEW

Excerpt

Prologue

Coin Paradox

We rode from the burning train hard enough to jar the marrow in our bones.

The cash we stole dragged at our heels, bloody and guilty, but we didn't let it go. That's the problem with gold. Once you hold it, it's sweeter than molasses and twice as hard to shake from the palm, even for a mathematician.

Especially for a mathematician.

If I'd known what was to come, I would have cut it from my saddle and squandered it in the dust, ridden for the border penniless.

But I didn't. Like I said, that's the problem with gold.

And so, Fermat and I kept riding. And so, we have only ourselves to blame for what came next.