Petrogypsies

This critically-acclaimed science fiction adventure novel is set in an alternate universe in which organic, semi-sentient, alien-engineered oilfield drilling rigs roam the plains of Texas and the Southwest in search of petroleum.

*Petrogypsies* is the first in Harper's series about the great drilling beast, Sprocket, his best friend, former farmer Henry Lee MacFarland, and the rowdy, musical crew of "petrogypsies" who travel with them in their quest for fortune, romance, and adventure.

**For Sprocket and Henry Lee,

               it was love at first blow-out ...**

Henry Lee MacFarland is a big ugly man, a farmer who is so strong that he has to be gentle, whether he's dealing with livestock or with normal people.

          Sprocket is a hundred and twelve feet of healthy young male Driller, dark as a moonless night, with a spiked tongue that can bore four miles into the earth in his relentless quest for the thing he loves best--Texas heavy crude oil.

          Doc, Razer, Big Mac, and the others in Sprocket's crew are the roughest, rowdiest bunch in the oilpatch. They live inside of Sprocket's body and travel like gypsies from one drilling job to another. They work like animals. Party like 'em, too.

          Then there's Star, the stunning Casing gypsy who has a hankering for fine cigars, a killer instinct at poker, and a taste for big, ugly, strong men.

          Looking for adventure, Henry Lee leaves the farm behind and signs on with Sprocket's crew.

          He gets a helluva lot more "adventure"--as in monsters, mayhem, and murder--than he bargained for.

*"Rory Harper's sensibility is warm, earthy, whimsical, cleverly off-center, and, when he wants it to be, bawdy as all get out ... *Petrogypsies* is a blue-collar, red-neck world where folks sweat and love and work and get hurt ... *Petrogypsies* has got to be one of the most auspicious debuts of the year."* - Locus Magazine