So
you’ve been stuck at home for a week or so and you’ve burned through all your
Kindle ebooks. What do you do? Why, you download more, of course. To help you out, from Monday March 23 through
Friday March 27, the following six of my ebooks will be free to download. That’s over one hundred short stories for the
price of a few clicks.
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
All-You-Can-Read Buffet is a collection of forty stories covering various
genres and themes ranging from six to over 4,200 words in length. Some I began
writing well over a decade ago, while others were written especially for this
collection. All together, they are a buffet of my writing. As such, I encourage
you to read as much as you want. Go back for seconds, thirds, fourths even. I
won’t mind if you skip over the stuff you don’t like, but, to quote your
mother, “How do you know you don’t like it? Have you tried it?”
“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.
Hopefully,
in the not too distant future humans will return to the moon. We will build
bases and colonies, make farms and factories, and live, love and learn. “A
Cabin Under a Cloudy Sea and other stories” contains five of my short stories
that are all set upon the moon. They give the tiniest glimpse of the
possibilities awaiting us there.
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.
As a science fiction writer, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how technology will change the way we live. I’ve come up with these ten short essays about science fictional elements that will – almost certainly – one day become science fact as a way for people to start coming to terms with them. Because I’ve spent time thinking about clones and AIs, I feel I’ll be okay when they do finally show up whereas most people will probably freak out. I hope these essays will get people to start thinking about the future because, no matter what we do, the future is coming.
