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Description:
11 short stories of Fantasy, Science Fiction and somewhere in between. From genetic engineering to sweeping space drama, to the whimsical Santa Brigade. Here is a second collection of short stories from various universes including 4 new Federation stories!
The stories are:
Virus (mix drama sorta scifi)
Fantasy:
Elementals
Elementals
Scifi:
Survival
Penance
The Santa Brigade
The Pack (aka Who done it)
Last Assault of the Emperor
Survival
Penance
The Santa Brigade
The Pack (aka Who done it)
Last Assault of the Emperor
Founding Fed stories:
Island of Moreau
Bumper and Boomer
The Good Ship USFP Lollipop
Lewis and Clarke (the story that was supposed to be at the end of Ghosts from the Past)
Island of Moreau
Bumper and Boomer
The Good Ship USFP Lollipop
Lewis and Clarke (the story that was supposed to be at the end of Ghosts from the Past)
In other news, I got to the end of act 2 of Jethro 4 Recruiting Drive Friday then dropped the ball by a distraction for the past um, quite a few days now. (wince, I can hear the screams now) I will hopefully get back to it um... sometime tomorrow (maybe? double wince!) or Thursday.
The really annoying thing is the distraction blew up in my face and turned into a lot of wasted time and effort on my part. Sigh.
Anyway, Enjoy MV 2!
Either they had no backlog at Goodlife or some jumped on yours very very quickly!!! I am very impressed
ReplyDeleteI am a regular. Just special I guess. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm still waiting on Joshua with BL. I got back into J4 a bit today, I'm hoping to do more tomorrow. I had hoped to get it done by the weekend but something tells me that's not in the cards. I keep coming up with new scenes to add. lol
I am a very fast reader that for years have been reading beyond my age group. (I was reading people like Anne McCaffery, David Weber, David Eddings, L. Ron Hubbard, Arthur C. Clarke, Andre Norton, and Orson Scott Card back in the 4th grade.) So for me the bigger th3e novel the better and the more I likely I am to immediately reread the book.
ReplyDeleteMe too. I too cut my teeth on Anne McCaffrey, but not until I was a freshman in high school 26 years ago. The English/yearbook teacher here saw me reading Dragonsdawn and got me into the rest of her collection, as well as Christopher Stasheff and others. Orson Scott Card I got into 18 years ago. Weber I started 15 years (?) ago. I reread Weber, Ringo, and some of the others many, many, many times. (I am currently rereading In Fury Born again for the 10th time? It's helping me with the mindset to write Jethro 4...)
DeleteNot that it would happen but it would be interesting to put Jethero and the F platoon up against Alica, Megria, and Tesphone with more or less equal support.
ReplyDeleteNo my parents started me on Anne McCaffrey to try to slow me down because I was reading to fast. I was checking out (at the time it was ten books) each week on Saturday and by Wed. I was finished with them. A Hardy Boys book lasted me about 3 hours. A Boxcar Children's book about 1. Unforunately their plan backfired. The first Pern book I read was the Harper Hall trilogy. They bought the book for me at a book store in Denver and by the time we got home (in Central Kansas about an eight hour drive) I had finished the trilogy.
Yeah, that would be an interesting fight. Bast up against Tesephone and Megria? Alica would clean F platoon's clock but she'd run up hard against Jethro. They would be pretty evenly matched... even though she's got superior training. (for now)
DeleteAnne: I got the Dragonsdawn book when we were moving cross country. It was the only book in the store that wasn't a romance novel. I got a big kick out of it. I too checked out a dozen books from the library every week. And I'd have them read by Monday. lol
I haven't been to my local library in nearly a year. They are way behind on books. I remember it used to take 5 months on a waiting list to get a book. Now if I want something I buy it. (which is why my library is overflowing!)
I miss reading Anne though I am glad her son has taken over Pern. The most emotional I have ever gotten at a book was at the end of the book called All the Weyrs of Pern when Masterharper Robinton died.
DeleteWhen I was a kid the staff at the library could set their watches by when I showed up. They opened at 10 am and I would walk in at 1005 every Saturday. It wasn't until I got my own job that I started buying my own books (2.5 hours from the nearest bookstore so I would visit and write down the books I want the come home and get them through the library.) Even with the books I have donated to the library (ran out of room so I donated the ones I didn't reread a bunch) I still have well over 200 physical books (and have donated at least 2 or 3 times that). With the e-readers I have well over 800 there with very very few (less than 2 dozen) repeats between the electronic and physical libraries. Now if I only made several hundred thousand so I could buy as many books as I want instead of being on a budget....
I got t rereading the Prince Roger books by David Weber and John Ringo. I wonder how would F platoon stack up against the Bronze Barbarians? And to make it even more interesting add in the Mardukans.
DeleteLOL
DeleteF platoon would win but it would be ugly. (Jethro and Letanga would be the deciding factors)
Anne: I had a heck of a time with All the Weyrs of Pern, it tore me up for a long time. Now I see the reasoning in it. It is a bittersweet ending.
DeleteI am of 2 minds about Todd. He had some good ideas, but he got a little to cute with the time travel. I mean, it was in practically every book! And it was all convoluted so hard to pick through the wraps and layers.
I heard the last Pern book was shelved by the publisher and the Betas. No one liked it. Ouch.
I too was there at the library pretty early. I also donated a lot, but I keep a lot. I have well over 500 physical books now. I only have 2 ebooks though, I seriously need to get Mike's ebook and figure out how to get it onto my tablet. (Which is still in the box! lol)
My problem isn't so much budget as time to read books. I have a stack I want to read but can't find the time now. Movies too! I've got 7 more movies, and Weber's Torch book coming... and no time! lol
I am into the climax of J4 right now, I am hoping to wrap the book up by tomorrow. Then off to the betas by Monday, and on to the cover art. lol
That is IF these cats will leave my lap and skin alone. (I have 2 inside, 1 snoring in my lap now, and 1 OUTSIDE who is absolutely adorable and has me wrapped around her paw. (and yes, she's in J4) I can't resist sitting out there with her snoozing in my lap... and of course not getting anything done. sigh
I don't know remember the Mardukans lay down plasma fire like they were still using the muskets they were first trained on. Either way it would be on heck of a fight to watch.
DeleteMy problem is more money wise and also space wise. I split the rent with another person and we are living in a third person's spare house so we cant do things like put up shelves paint walls hang pictures etc. So what limited shelf space there is I have to share hence the 2-4 hundred physical book limit.
As for Todd I agree somewhat. I am just glad he is filling in some of the gaps in the history of Pern.
Glad to hear that J4 is almost done. Now here is to hoping BL and J4 will be out by June 9th so I can read them during my mini vacation that I take every year. (Insert begging puppy eyes here .) I would like that since I help out at a huge arts and crafts festival (the Smokey Hill River Festival http://www.riverfestival.com) running what is technincally called "The missing persons and lost articles station". We just call it either lost and found or if we are being flippant the Lost Parent Patrol. (The kids always know where they are. Just because their parents don't know where the kids are doesn't bother them.) If you are in Kansas stop on by!!
Mardukans: From what I remember of the books they are powerful but some can't aim for spit.
DeleteBooks: I'm tapped for space.
Todd: :) I do miss Anne. Not just for Pern, but also many of her other books.
J4: I finished J4 last night. (the rough draft) I added a couple scenes a few minutes ago. I need to run the first spell check pass and then either keep playing with it or bite the bullet and get the betas going on it. :)
BL will be out sometime next month. (April) I am not sure when. Most likely in the middle or closer to the end of the month. J4... no promises.
I don't travel. Sounds cool though. I was one of those kids many a time! lol
Since cell phones are much more common than they were even several years ago we don't have to go out and search as much anymore so I have more time to sit and read. Heck I have been doing this so long that I remember when there were no cell phones in the park because they were more like the brick phones you see in old war movies. And when at anyone time (especially around meal times) we could have up to 7 or 8 missing. As for the travel I understand. I just find it cool that several of the artists that are there come every year. They plan their whole exhibition schedule around when the SHRF is.
DeleteNice to know on the updated status. Have you ever thought about doing something like a omnibus edition(s)? I was thinking along the lines of The General series by David Drake or the Deeds of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon.
Cell phones: lol Don't get me started on that! I have a 'semi-smart' phone, a flip phone that my sister bugs me about all the time. She keeps teasing me about coming over to the dark side. Heh, eventually I might, but not without a lot more kicking and screaming, hemming and hawing, and other foot dragging. :D
DeleteIt only took her what, 3 years to convince me to text? lol
Thomas and I think Jory or Mike have asked me about doing an Omnibus. One of the Jeff's too. I always saw that as cheating, yeah, you might clean some stuff up but you're not generating any new content. Tempting sometimes though. :)
True it is not new content but as part of the omnibus you could do like Weber does on a couple of his anthologies and include either all or part of the tech bible you use when writing the series.
DeleteI like that idea in theory, I've been tempted to do that with BL since it is so short. The problem is Amazon and B&N charge an arm and a leg for images embedded in a manuscript. I'd also have to make more of my own.
DeleteI'd much rather get the wiki and site going so people could link to them there. Then we can keep them up to date (Me and the Betas) while also adding new content as it is generated. (Such as deck plans of ships, etc)
I need to see if Rea is free. Tim just finished BL. I need to go over his corrections, add a few more (I just finished Poon's latest) and then put it in the final pipeline...
And where you self publish instead of going through like Baen or Tor or Random House (just throwing out a few publishers as an example) I can see where that can be a problem. Though unless it is a major component of the tech bible I could do without the pictures.
ReplyDeleteMost of Weber's tech bible he has published does not have any pictures. There are some in the House of Steel, IIRC. But the First tech bible he published had no pictures. This could be a way to answer questions like the differences in classes of fusion reactors, are the mircofusion reactors built in a fundamentally different way than regular fusion reactors? [I am reminded of a scene in later part of the Honorverse series where Lester is explaining that the way the "hip pocket" fusion reactors (in thing like the pinnaces) are built fundamentally can't power something the size of a LAC (which are fission not fusion but he didn't know that). That implies (at least in that series) that there is some kind of difference between the two.] And other assorted hardware/tech questions that either are basic (like is all life know carbon based?) or that you are not planning on explaining in the books or can give a fuller explanation than what is in the books.
Of course if you want to avoid spoilers you could always choose which parts of the tech bible are released!