When out on a field mission, Ruy Lambeth, cultural expert for UNESCO, relies heavily on his smart synthetic skinsuit, almost like a useful symbiont. But when he meets a passel of outlaws in one of the most forbidding regions of North America, and discovers that their skins are superior to his, he has to figure out how to overcome their superior numbers with his ingenuity and expertise.
Black Is the Night
Joel Lane, Joe R. Lansdale, Vaseem Khan, Brandon Barrows, Tara Moss, Kim Newman, Nick Mamatas, Mason Cross, Martin Edwards, Donna Moore, James Grady, Lavie Tidhar, Maxim Jakubowski, Barry N. Malzberg, James Sallis, A. K. Benedict, Max Decharne, Paul Di Filippo, M. W. Craven, Charles Ardai, Bill Pronzini, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Samantha Lee Howe, O'Neil De Noux, David Quantick, William Boyle, Warren Moore, Susi Holliday, Joseph S. Walker, Ana Teresa Pereira, Neil Gaiman
