There
are a couple big events coming up in July and I was going to have some free
ebook deals, but then I decided to throw a couple more into the mix. So in July you’ll be able to grab five of my ebooks
all for the price of a click! Here’s a
listing of which books will be free on which days.
July
1 – 5
Everybody
complains about politics, but does anyone do anything about it? My attempt to do something about it is to
collect forty of my short stories with a political element into this anthology. My stories are either politically neutral or
equally condemning of the national parties.
Instead of trying to sway you to one ideology or another, my goal is to
just get people thinking about politics in the hopes a rose might grow out of
all the political manure.
Since
this is a collection of political stories, I try to have it free around
elections, as well as the Fourth of July.
So as you’re prepping for the beer, BBQ, and booms of the Fourth, don’t
forget books.
July
11 – 15
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 that 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.
The
main reason I started this extravaganza is because of the fifty anniversary of
the moon landing. So my two ebooks about
the moon will be free – see below – and I just like to have this one about
future technology also free.
July
17 – 21
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.
The
week this is free marks the Fiftieth Anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the moon.
So yeah, I want to have my collection of essays about why returning to
the moon is our best bet in space available.
July
17 – 21
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.
I’m
a big supporter of the moon, so it makes sense for my collection of short
stories set on the moon should also be available this week to mark the Apollo 11 anniversary.
July
25 – 29
Over
the years, I’ve posted several short stories on websites that later – for one
reason or another – died. While the
corpses of some of these sites are still around where you can read my stories,
many have vanished from the internet. And
since there are few sites that will publish such previously published works,
the only way you could read them was if I self-published them in a collection.
In
addition to such “lost” stories, I’ve included some new stories that – for one
reason or another – I felt I’d have a hard time finding someone to publish them. So “Seventh Story Stockpile” basically
contains stories I didn’t know what to do with.
Hopefully now I can move on to other projects.
Originally
I was just going to have the other four ebooks free. But as I was getting this ready, I realized
that I might as well add another ebook to finish out the month.
