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TIME: 2325

SETTING: Earth, its Solar system, and beyond.

Earth unveils the most incredible engineering marvel in its history, the Space Ring known as “Shenu,” an off-world colony. From this moment on, humanity discovers more about itself, its solar system, and its unique alien origins. But there’s danger in every corner as a dimensional rift outside of Jupiter threatens to cause chaos in the Solar System, an alien presence is detected on Earth, battle lines are drawn, and a comet is sent on a collision course to strike Mars. 

Against this backdrop, a new AI intelligence is born, and a new advanced humanoid life form emerges. Witness humanity’s last stand as a group of future pioneers sets out to tame the next wild frontier, its own Solar System, and the worlds beyond, taking humanity to the most exciting, amazing, and dangerous places it has ever been.

The Ring Dwellers:

🧬 Gina Prime
Humanity 2.0, the most advanced being to ever traverse the stars. As questions of her origin intertwine with alien technology, an invasion plan, and humanity’s destiny, Gina must grapple with her role -- friend or foe, savior or destroyer?

🧑 Dr. Tantalus
A Transhuman Evolutionary Architect metaforming into a Reptilian who is the most dangerous adversary humanity has ever encountered.

🌌 Betta Rajastani
A Gen Epsilon 23-year-old twin whose evolution may be humanity’s best hope -- or its undoing.

🧬 UMA
More than just a soul-infused Geneticom, UMA may secretly be an alien intelligence infiltrating humanity’s core.

🧠 Anderson Olefors
A scandal-ridden genius and Gina’s creator. He holds the key to a terrifying truth that could shift the balance of power.

⚛️ Harrison Byrnes
Commander of Athena, the first sentient dark matter starship. His love for Gina may jeopardize the very mission he leads.

🔥 Perfect for fans of:
✔ "Dune" by Frank Herbert
✔ "The Expanse" by James S. A. Corey
✔ "Red Rising" by Pierce Brown
✔ "Foundation" by Isaac Asimov
✔ "Hyperion" by Dan Simmons
✔ "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson

👁 If you love deep world-building, morally complex heroes, futuristic tech, and cinematic action with philosophical stakes, this book is for you.

👁 Step into a bold new universe where AI possesses souls, evolution blurs into extinction, science collides with myth, and the line between evolution and revolution is one secret from being crossed.

💥 OFFWORLD – ORIGINS is your gateway to a bold new universe where science, myth, and destiny collide.

📚 Ideal for readers who enjoy:
✔ Science Fiction
✔ Science Fantasy
✔ Intelligent sci-fi thrillers
✔ Romances between space-faring star-crossed lovers
✔ Space operas with ensemble casts
✔ Philosophical futurism and AI ethics
✔ Tech-noir and intergalactic warfare

🛰️ History is written by the victors. The future? By those who dare to change the rules.

🔥 "Humanity’s final frontier isn’t space -- it’s what we become to survive it."

👉 Get your copy of OFFWORLD – Origins today and prepare for an adventure beyond your wildest and most disturbing dreams. 

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ORDER  NOW OFFWORLD Origins

TIME: 2325

SETTING: Earth, its Solar system, and beyond.

Earth unveils the most incredible engineering marvel in its history, the Space Ring known as “Shenu,” an off-world colony. From this moment on, humanity discovers more about itself, its solar system, and its unique alien origins. But there’s danger in every corner as a dimensional rift outside of Jupiter threatens to cause chaos in the Solar System, an alien presence is detected on Earth, battle lines are drawn, and a comet is sent on a collision course to strike Mars. 

Against this backdrop, a new AI intelligence is born, and a new advanced humanoid life form emerges. Witness humanity’s last stand as a group of future pioneers sets out to tame the next wild frontier, its own Solar System, and the worlds beyond, taking humanity to the most exciting, amazing, and dangerous places it has ever been.

The Ring Dwellers:

🧬 Gina Prime
Humanity 2.0, the most advanced being to ever traverse the stars. As questions of her origin intertwine with alien technology, an invasion plan, and humanity’s destiny, Gina must grapple with her role -- friend or foe, savior or destroyer?

🧑 Dr. Tantalus
A Transhuman Evolutionary Architect metaforming into a Reptilian who is the most dangerous adversary humanity has ever encountered.

🌌 Betta Rajastani
A Gen Epsilon 23-year-old twin whose evolution may be humanity’s best hope -- or its undoing.

🧬 UMA
More than just a soul-infused Geneticom, UMA may secretly be an alien intelligence infiltrating humanity’s core.

🧠 Anderson Olefors
A scandal-ridden genius and Gina’s creator. He holds the key to a terrifying truth that could shift the balance of power.

⚛️ Harrison Byrnes
Commander of Athena, the first sentient dark matter starship. His love for Gina may jeopardize the very mission he leads.

🔥 Perfect for fans of:
✔ "Dune" by Frank Herbert
✔ "The Expanse" by James S. A. Corey
✔ "Red Rising" by Pierce Brown
✔ "Foundation" by Isaac Asimov
✔ "Hyperion" by Dan Simmons
✔ "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson

👁 If you love deep world-building, morally complex heroes, futuristic tech, and cinematic action with philosophical stakes, this book is for you.

👁 Step into a bold new universe where AI possesses souls, evolution blurs into extinction, science collides with myth, and the line between evolution and revolution is one secret from being crossed.

💥 OFFWORLD – ORIGINS is your gateway to a bold new universe where science, myth, and destiny collide.

📚 Ideal for readers who enjoy:
✔ Science Fiction
✔ Science Fantasy
✔ Intelligent sci-fi thrillers
✔ Romances between space-faring star-crossed lovers
✔ Space operas with ensemble casts
✔ Philosophical futurism and AI ethics
✔ Tech-noir and intergalactic warfare

🛰️ History is written by the victors. The future? By those who dare to change the rules.

🔥 "Humanity’s final frontier isn’t space -- it’s what we become to survive it."

👉 Get your copy of OFFWORLD – Origins today and prepare for an adventure beyond your wildest and most disturbing dreams. 

New From Story Merchant Books Rick S. Mordecon's Offworld Origins Preorder Now!

PREORDER LIVE NOW FOR OFFWORLD Origins

TIME: 2325

SETTING: Earth, its Solar system, and beyond.

Earth unveils the most incredible engineering marvel in its history, the Space Ring known as “Shenu,” an off-world colony. From this moment on, humanity discovers more about itself, its solar system, and its unique alien origins. But there’s danger in every corner as a dimensional rift outside of Jupiter threatens to cause chaos in the Solar System, an alien presence is detected on Earth, battle lines are drawn, and a comet is sent on a collision course to strike Mars. 

Against this backdrop, a new AI intelligence is born, and a new advanced humanoid life form emerges. Witness humanity’s last stand as a group of future pioneers sets out to tame the next wild frontier, its own Solar System, and the worlds beyond, taking humanity to the most exciting, amazing, and dangerous places it has ever been.

The Ring Dwellers:

🧬 Gina Prime
Humanity 2.0, the most advanced being to ever traverse the stars. As questions of her origin intertwine with alien technology, an invasion plan, and humanity’s destiny, Gina must grapple with her role -- friend or foe, savior or destroyer?

🧑 Dr. Tantalus
A Transhuman Evolutionary Architect metaforming into a Reptilian who is the most dangerous adversary humanity has ever encountered.

🌌 Betta Rajastani
A Gen Epsilon 23-year-old twin whose evolution may be humanity’s best hope -- or its undoing.

🧬 UMA
More than just a soul-infused Geneticom, UMA may secretly be an alien intelligence infiltrating humanity’s core.

🧠 Anderson Olefors
A scandal-ridden genius and Gina’s creator. He holds the key to a terrifying truth that could shift the balance of power.

⚛️ Harrison Byrnes
Commander of Athena, the first sentient dark matter starship. His love for Gina may jeopardize the very mission he leads.

🔥 Perfect for fans of:
✔ "Dune" by Frank Herbert
✔ "The Expanse" by James S. A. Corey
✔ "Red Rising" by Pierce Brown
✔ "Foundation" by Isaac Asimov
✔ "Hyperion" by Dan Simmons
✔ "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson

👁 If you love deep world-building, morally complex heroes, futuristic tech, and cinematic action with philosophical stakes, this book is for you.

👁 Step into a bold new universe where AI possesses souls, evolution blurs into extinction, science collides with myth, and the line between evolution and revolution is one secret from being crossed.

💥 OFFWORLD – ORIGINS is your gateway to a bold new universe where science, myth, and destiny collide.

📚 Ideal for readers who enjoy:
✔ Science Fiction
✔ Science Fantasy
✔ Intelligent sci-fi thrillers
✔ Romances between space-faring star-crossed lovers
✔ Space operas with ensemble casts
✔ Philosophical futurism and AI ethics
✔ Tech-noir and intergalactic warfare

🛰️ History is written by the victors. The future? By those who dare to change the rules.

🔥 "Humanity’s final frontier isn’t space -- it’s what we become to survive it."

👉 Get your copy of OFFWORLD – Origins today and prepare for an adventure beyond your wildest and most disturbing dreams. 

New Release From Story Merchant Books - The Cloud: A Speculative Fiction Novel by Robert Rivenbark

In twenty-second century L.A. dominated by The Cloud, every imaginable pleasure is accessible—yet the entire world can vanish in a single upload.

That choice rests in one man’s hands.

AVAILABLE ON AMAZON

Blaise, a brilliant but tormented VR programmer, is trying to forget his violent past as a special forces commando by throwing himself into creating VR fantasies. He finds himself tempted by his megalomaniac boss, who offers him wealth, power, and eternal life in exchange for coding a new VR series that will addict and eliminate billions of “unproductives.”

Caught between joining those who want to bring down the ruling Cloud regime in Hong Kong, or accepting the offer of personal immortality, Blaise finds himself flanked by two relentless women—a psychic hacker risking overwhelming personal odds to save humanity from annihilation, and the other using her extraordinary carnal wiles to accelerate the final triumph of The Cloud. Ultimately, Blaise must reembrace his violent warrior nature in a desperate bid to destroy it.

J. E. Nicassio, Author of "From the Sky" receives coveted Book Excellence Award

J. E. Nicassio‘s "From the Sky" Trilogy Vol. 1 wins a Book Excellence Award in the Science fiction category.

Available on Amazon

Founded in Toronto, Ontario, the Book Excellence Awards is an international book awards competition dedicated to recognizing both independent and traditionally published authors and publishers for excellence in writing, design and overall market appeal. Previous Winners and Finalists of the Book Excellence Awards have doubled their book sales, garnered attention from film producers, received the distribution in bookstores, and increased their visibility and media attention.

“The Book Excellence Awards is highly recognized in the literary community. I was thrilled and honored to receive such a prestigious book award for my first novel. This will open many doors for me.”

 From the Sky is a thrilling and poignant novel that is not only worthy of being read by all readers, but it will open their eyes to the possibility of life among the stars, which is why J. E, Nicassio wrote the book.

From the Sky is the story about Lucien Foster and Samantha Hunter. Lucien Foster never expected Samantha Hunter to live after he tried to save her from a car accident that killed her twin brother instantly. But, for some inexplicable reason, her body accepted his alien blood. Now, not only is she alive, she’s changing, becoming stronger. But there’s one problem: the rogue government agency MJ 12 that’s been after Lucien and his family from the start, knows her secret. Sam is the only human to thrive with alien DNA in her system, meaning she’s the one. Through her, MJ 12 can start to re-populate the planet with an alien/human hybrid, a superhuman.

J.E. Nicassio gives readers insight into the Roswell crash, government cover- ups, and the supernatural. The book helps readers learn more about the unusual and UFO’s and historical sighting, whether they are young adults or adults.

Nicassio’s book has already received some great reviews from industry leaders.‘I just wish I could figure all this out – An exceptional novel!'

Pennsylvania author Jennie E. Nicassio is a former freelance writer, MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) field investigator, and the author of ROCKY, LOUIS-JOSEPH’S OOH RAH, HAUNTING SHORT TALES OF TWILA, and SOUL WALKER the From the Sky Trilogy, of which FROM THE SKY is Volume 1. Her writing reflects her fascination with life on other planets, and she has become well known for her fascinating paranormal fantasy works. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The depth and sensitivity of Jennie’s projected trilogy are evident in the quotation she places at book’s opening: ‘Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe, or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” – Arthur C. Clarke. Knowing her passion for UFOs and the probability of life on other planets, this book sails into the mind with surety and succeeds in transporting the reader into Jennie’s special realm.

The tale begins in Pittsburgh with an auto accident in which Samantha (aka Sam) survives while her twin brother Finn succumbs Sam is visited by a stranger who comforts her, saying she will not die, and then disappears. Months pass, Sam’s mother dies in a depressed state, and Sam once again views the stranger in the cemetery after her mother’s funeral. Moving to New Mexico with her father’s new university position as Dean of the Archaeology Department, Sam continues to encounter visions of the stranger. Gradually she learns the stranger is from another planet, and her life becomes more complex after meeting the strange but enchanting Lucien Foster. From this point on the story becomes a much a mystery thriller as a fantasy, so perfectly blended is the line that normally separates reality and the unknown – intrigue, alien conspiracies, and yes, romance.

Though written for the Young Adult audience, this book is so fine that it is equally irresistible for imaginative adults. Exceptional writing, this, and an outstanding opening chapter of Jennie’s successful trilogy. Highly recommended,” wrote Grady Harp, San Francisco Review of Books.
About the Book Excellence Awards – Founded in Toronto, Canada, the Book Excellence Awards is an international book awards competition dedicated to recognizing both independent and traditionally published authors for excellence in writing, design and overall market appeal. Previous Winners and Finalists of the Book Excellence Awards have been New York Times’ best-sellers, spoken at the United Nations and TEDx, and have had their books optioned by movie studios. To learn more, visit: https://www.bookexcellenceawards.com.

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J. E. Nicassio jen3963@comcast.net https://www.jenicassio.com/

Jerry Amernic's The Last Witness Makes the Cut CYGNUS BOOK AWARDS for Science Fiction 2017 – Slush Pile Survivors

The Cygnus Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Science Fiction, Steampunk, and Speculative Fiction.  The Cygnus Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer Book Reviews Blue Ribbon Awards Writing Competitions.

The year is 2039, and Jack Fisher is the last living survivor of the Holocaust. Set in a world that is abysmally complacent about events of the last century, Jack is a 100-year-old man whose worst memories took place before he was 5. His story hearkens back to the Jewish ghetto of his birth and to Auschwitz where, as a little boy, he had to fend for himself to survive after losing his family. Jack becomes the central figure in a missing-person investigation when his granddaughter suddenly disappears. While assisting police, he finds himself in danger and must reach into the darkest corners of his memory to come out alive.

Jerry Amernic is a Canadian writer of fiction and non-fiction books. He is the author of the new Holocaust-related novel “The Last Witness.”

Sci-Fi Icon Robert Heinlein Lists 5 Essential Rules for Making a Living as a Writer

 In his 1947 essay “On the Writing of Speculative Fiction,” Heinlein refers to these “two types” of science fiction as “the gadget story and the human interest story.” The latter kind of story, writes Heinlein “stands a better chance with the slicks than a gadget story does” because it has wider appeal. This advice sounds rather utilitarian, doesn’t it? What about passion, inspiration, the muse? Eh, you don’t have time for those things. If you want to be successful like Robert Heinlein, you’ve got to write stories, lots of ‘em, stories people want to publish and pay for, stories people want to read.

Heinlein spends the bulk of his essay advising us on how to write such stories, with a proviso, in an epigram from Rudyard Kipling, that “there are nine-and-sixty ways / Of constructing tribal lays / And every single one of them is right.” After, however, describing in detail how he writes a “human interest” science fiction story, Heinlein then gets down to business. He assumes that we can type, know the right formats or can learn them, and can spell, punctuate, and use grammar as our “wood-carpenter’s sharp tools.” These prerequisites met, all we really need to write speculative fiction are the five rules below:

    1. You must write.

    2. You must finish what you start.

    3. You must refrain from rewriting except to editorial order.

    4. You must put it on the market.

    5. You must keep it on the market until sold.


You might think Heinlein has lapsed into the language of the realtor, not the writer, but he is deadly serious about these rules, which “are amazingly hard to follow—which is why there are so few professional writers and so many aspirants.” Anyone who has tried to write and publish fiction knows this to be true. But what did Heinlein mean in giving us such an austere list? For one thing, as he notes many times, there are perhaps as many ways to write sci-fi stories as there are people to write them. What Heinlein aims to give us are the keys to becoming professional writers, not theorists of writing, lovers of writing, dabblers and dilettantes of writing.

Award-winning science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer has interpreted Heinlein’s rules with commentary of his own, and added a sixth: “Start Working on Something Else.” Good advice.

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