So it’s Thanksgiving, if you live in the US. Which means you only have a few weeks left to spend your hard earned money on mostly useless crap. I know things have been crazy for the last couple of years, so as an early holiday gift, here are five of my ebooks you can download for free. And the best thing is, you can get them instantly: you don’t have to wait for them to sail across the ocean and get through a crowded port.
You
can get this all for the price of a click from Wednesday November 24th, through
Sunday November 28th. I hope you all
have a safe and happy holiday season, and I hope you enjoy anything of mine you
read.
A Man of Few Words is a collection
of fifty of my flash fiction stories. What would really happen if a “T-Rex on
steroids” attacked a city? Why do science fiction writers make the best lovers?
How does a company get to Second Base with VIPs? I explore these questions and
more using less than 1000 words and in various genres from humor to horror and
general fiction to science fiction.
The
majority of the stories were previously published (most on my website) but all
were revised for this collection. In addition, each piece is accompanied by
some background information on the origin of the story or a funny tale about
the writing of it to give a fuller experience.
Over
the last few years a lot of people have caught Mars fever. It seems a week
doesn’t go by without a report of some new group wanting to send people to
Mars, or some big name in the industry talking about why we have to go to Mars,
or articles talking about the glorious future humanity will have on Mars. All
of this worries me. In my opinion, a Mars base is currently not sustainable
because there’s no way for it to make money. A few missions may fly doing
extraordinary science, but if it’s then cancelled for cost the whole Mars
Project may just be seen as an expensive stunt.
Fortunately,
there are other places in the solar system besides Mars. While bases on the
moon and amongst the asteroids won’t be as “inspirational” as one on Mars, they
will have opportunities for businesses to make goods and services as well as
profits, meaning less chance of them being outright cancelled. This will make
life better on Earth and secure a firm foothold in space for humanity. The essays
in The Moon Before Mars: Why returning to
the moon makes more sense than rushing off to Mars allow me to describe my
ideas on what can be accomplished on the moon and with the asteroids, and why
Mars isn’t the destiny of humanity its cheerleaders make it out to be.
Partway
to a new colony world, board member Geoffrey Ames is woken from hibernation by
the caretaking crew of the Lucian. They require him to look into the matter of
their fellow crewman Morgan Heller. Morgan’s claims – such as being over 1500
years old – would normally land him in the psychiatric ward, except he can back
up some of his other claims.
Brain for Rent and other stories is a collection
of five of my short scifi stories to give a sampling of my writing. The
collection includes: “Brain for Rent” about a ne’re-do-well failed writer with
a conceptual implant who discusses his work with a young woman thinking of
getting an implant herself. “The Demonstration” is about a different young woman
wanting to show off her latest body modification. “Self Imprisonment” offers
one solution of safe keeping the backup copy of yourself. “The Best Job Ever”
is about a necessary – yet unpleasant – human/alien interaction. And the
collection ends with “Why Stay?” which explains why, after years of fighting
the humans, the robots just deactivate.
Like
most people, Jason Fisher wanted to make the world a better place, but he
doubted he would ever have the chance to make much of a mark. Then a “woman”
came to him, asking his help to save humanity by threatening it.
