David K. Scholes's Blog, page 7

Made some progress on my next book

I’m progressing along with my next book (as yet unnamed) and have reached 20,000 words. It will be another collection of science fiction and science fantasy short stories with one or two of my alternate reality stories thrown in. Stories included so far are: “Deep Web”, “Living on Compressed Time”, “Even a Non Corporeal Can Get Lonely”, “The Facility”, “Social Experiment”, “Good Intentions”, “(In) Vulnerable World”, “New Generation”, “The Foreseer Scrolls”, “The Empress Voluvita”, and the conclusion to my “Human Hunter” story arc.

My "Alien Hunter, Star Trooper" to be free on Amazon

Some advance notice that my “Alien Hunter, Star Trooper” sci-fi novella based on the 2011/12 series that I wrote for the then Golden Visions Magazine will be free on Amazon for the 2 days 16/17 January http://www.amazon.com/Alien-Hunter-St... Here’s a review by the Beam Me Up site: http://wrfrbeameup.blogspot.com.au/20...
Also here’s an excerpt published on the Bewildering Stories site: http://www.bewilderingstories.com/iss...

My "Soldier of the Brell" to be on Amazon

My “Soldier of the Brell” sci-fi novella will be available as a free e-book download from Amazon for 3 days 11/12/13 December: http://www.amazon.com/Soldier-of-the-...
The Bewildering Stories sci-fi site published an excerpt from it: http://www.bewilderingstories.com/iss...
Also here’s a review by Paul Cole: http://wrfrbeameup.blogspot.com.au/20... Cheers!

My "Essential Reading in Science Fiction" to be free on Amazon

Some advance notice that my “Essential Reading in Science Fiction” e-book will be free on Amazon for 3 days 4/5/6 December: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007KMDW9M
Also my flash fiction length story: (In) Vulnerable World will be published on Earl Wynn’s “Farther Stars Than These” site on 5 February 2015. Cheers!

My "For Odin for Thor, for Asgard" to be free on Amazon

Some advance notice that my “For Odin for Thor for Asgard” collection of short stories of the gods of Asgard in sci-fi.sci-fantasy settings will be free on Amazon for 3 days 25/26/27 November: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AHNE27W

My flash fiction story "The Grief Counsellors" pod cast on Antipodean SF radio show

My flash fiction story “The Grief Counsellors” has been pod cast on the 8 November Kaus Australia segment of the Antipodean SF radio show. The story starts in at 2minutes 40 seconds in to the pod cast: http://antisf.libsyn.com/kaus-australis

My "Speculative Fiction - The Ultimate Collection" to be free on Amazon

Some advance notice that my “Speculative Fiction - The Ultimate Collection” collection of science fiction, science fantasy, and alternate history stories will be free on Amazon for 3 days: 18/19/20 November http://www.amazon.com/Speculative-Fic...

My "TRATHH and Other Science Fiction Stories" to be free on Amazon

Some advance notice that my “TRATHH and Other Science Fiction Stories” (normally $2.99) will be free on Amazon for 3 days from 14 November to 16 November 2014: http://www.amazon.com/TRATHH-other-sc... The Bewildering Stories site were kind enough to publish an excerpt from the book: http://www.bewilderingstories.com/iss...

My "Left Behind" sci-fi story published on Earl Wynn's Farther Stars Than These site

My flash fiction length story "Left Behind" has just been published on Earl Wynn’s “Farther Stars Than These” site. It remains on the front page for about a week and then goes into archives but is still accessible there: http://www.fartherstars.com/ Many thanks Earl!

The fourth story in my "Human Hunter" story arc just pod cast on the Beam Me Up site

Paul Cole of the Beam Me Up Pod Cast site has just pod cast the fourth story in my Human Hunter series “Human Hunter – The British Facility.” My story is the last item on the pod cast and starts in at about 37 minutes 15 seconds into the pod cast running for the remainder of the hour: http://www.beammeuppodcast.com/beam-m...
Definitely worth a listen - Paul is a great narrator. You can catch earlier stories in the arc that have already been pod cast (and other stories of mine pod cast on Beam Me Up) here: http://www.beammeuppodcast.com/catego...