So
you’re still stuck at home, trying to make masks out of hoarded TP, you’ve
binged everything on Netflix, and you’ve read everything on your Kindle, but
you’re trying to save your money since you don’t know when you’ll go back to
work so you’re not downloading anything new.
Well, here’s your chance to get six ebooks for free. Between Monday April 6 and Friday April 10,
you’ll be able to download these six of my ebooks for the price of a few
clicks.
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. The 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.
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 the 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 feel 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. But now I can move on to other projects.
On
The Day, for reasons unknown, people began changing. They went to sleep as
their old selves and woke in their beds in different bodies: bodies that had
belonged to other people. And each time they fall asleep, they wake in a new
body. Set months later, “The Only Certainty” follows Derrick Gorton on an
average day in this new world as he deals with food shortages, the
semi-collapse of society, and how to finish his latest novel.
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.
“Rise”
is a standalone story set in my Human Republic Universe. The story follows the
events after the tragic deaths of the colonists on a small colony in a distant
star system.
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.
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