Free Samples
Below are some excerpts from my fiction, including chapters from my books and a published excerpt from a long-dormant novel-in-progress.
Chapter one of Kings of Infinite Space. Copyright © 2004 by James Hynes.
"All Hallow's Eve," chapter one of The Lecturer's Tale. Copyright © 2001 by James Hynes.
From Publish and Perish, the first chapters of "Queen of the Jungle," "99," and "Casting the Runes." Copyright © 1997 by James Hynes.
Chapter one of The Wild Colonial Boy. Copyright © 1990 by James Hynes.
"Mynheer Roggeveen Comes to Amsterdam," from Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 1994. This is a chapter from The Center of the World, an unfinished historical novel about Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, the European discoverer of Easter Island. Copyright © 1994 by James Hynes.