It seems every other year here in the US we face an election that WILL DETERMINE THE VERY SURVIVAL OF THE NATION. And after going through this for the last five or six never-ending election cycles, there is a strong desire to just listen to music and play video games. But to be a buzzkill, elections are important in that they will determine the intensity of the dumpster fire we end up in. So I’ve come up with a deal: if you take a few minutes to register to vote, or confirm your voter registration, you can grab any – or all – of these six ebooks on Kindle for free. Admittedly, there’s no way for me to know if you register or not, so we’re just working on the honor system.
How
do you register to vote or check your registration? You can either do it through your state’s
website, or on a site like Vote411. I
don’t know how long it takes to actually register to vote since it’s something
I haven’t dealt with since the last time I moved over ten years ago. But checking your registration only takes a
couple minutes. The reason you should
check your registration is that the lists of voters needs constant updating as
people register, move, and die. And even
without nefarious voter purges, it’s possible for mistakes to happen. If a mistake is caught early, it can be fixed
early, and things can go smoother on Election Day. You don’t want to find out you’re not registered
after waiting in line for eight hours.
If
you’re reading this but don’t live in the US, then you can still grab my ebooks
for free, I’ll just ask that you do whatever is necessary for you to
participate in your political system. If
you live in a dictatorship where you can’t participate in your political
system, I won’t ask how you managed to get online.
The
following six ebooks will be free from Monday February 21st, through Friday
February 25th. But you can register to vote
or check your registration anytime.
Everybody
complains about politics, but does anyone do anything about it? Stephen L.
Thompson’s attempt to do something about it is to collect forty of his short
stories with a political element into his Political
Pies anthology. His stories are either politically neutral or equally
condemning of the national parties. Instead of trying to sway you to one
ideology or another, his goal is to just get people thinking about politics in
the hopes a rose might grow out of all the political manure.
For
reasons of safety and avoiding paradoxes, Time Travel Incorporated assigns a
Guardian to all its travelers. So when there is an accident during political
historian Roj Hasol’s trip back to 1968, it’s his Guardian Susan who sets out
on the arduous task of cleaning up the mess.
A Man of Few Words is a collection
of fifty flash fiction stories by Stephen L. Thompson. 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? These
questions and more are explored by Stephen 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 by Stephen himself on
his 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.
Brain for Rent and other stories
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.
The Most Powerful Man in the World and other stories
The Most Powerful Man in the World and
other stories
is a collection of five, short, scifi stories to provide a sample of my
writing.
A being from the distant future with almost unlimited powers comes back to help Ian Steele make the world a better place in “The Most Powerful Man in the World.” One bookstore customer has an entirely different reason for wanting books in “Black Market Books.” “Motherhood” tells the story of Thomas Gillespie, the surrogate mother for a baby AI. “Storyteller” is about an author thinking his book into existence. And “Deadworld” is about the alien world humans are reborn on – in alien bodies – after we die.
