The Nine Cuts
Between the worlds, a guardian walks. Between the Cuts, the truth waits. Nine Worlds. Nine Relics. One Guardian.
A new fantasy series by Sean Carey
A Guardian between worlds
Kane Kurosawa is a martial artist, a security courier, and a student of one of San Francisco’s most secretive dojos. He has no idea he is about to become something else entirely.
When a test of skill sends him through a passage between worlds, Kane arrives in Nihara — a world seeded from Earth’s own history, where the martial traditions he knows have evolved into something older and stranger.
A warden is dead. A seal is breaking. And whatever is coming through will not stop at one world.
Kane is the only one who can stop it. He just doesn’t know it yet.
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Meet Kane Kurosawa
There’s a particular kind of person who moves through the world differently than most people do. Not dramatically differently — not in a way that announces itself or draws attention. It’s subtler than that. It’s in the way they read a room when they walk into it. The way they position themselves in a space…
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Bringing Real Martial Arts to Fantasy
The Short Version: Fantasy has no shortage of fighters. What it has very little of is martial artists. The difference matters more than you might think. The Longer Version:Pick up almost any fantasy novel and you’ll find someone who fights. They swing a sword, they dodge a blow, they win or lose based on the…
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The Kuji-In – Nine Syllables, Nine States, Nine Doorways
The Short Version: An ancient practice rooted in Buddhist tradition, adopted by some of history’s most enigmatic warriors, and capable — in the hands of a dedicated practitioner — of producing results that are, to put it simply, extraordinary. The Longer Version: If you’ve spent any time around martial arts, particularly the older Japanese traditions,…
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Building new worlds from the bones of history
The Short Version: I’m not the most creative person in the room. I’m the one who takes what’s already in the room and rebuilds it into something new. It turns out that’s exactly the right skillset for building fictional worlds, at least to some extent. The Longer Version: When people find out I’m writing a…
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A bit of history on the nine cuts
The Short Version: A role-playing game, a retainer check, a laptop, a tragedy, fifteen years of an idea knocking on the inside of my skull, and one student who finally kicked the door open. The Longer Version: If you want to understand where The Nine Cuts came from, you have to go back to the…
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