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Amazon January Giveaway #2-- "End of Days" SF short story

Please click on the following link to enter an Amazon Giveaway for a chance to win one of the ten SF short stories in my Mindscapes collection: "End of Days". The giveaway ends 1/25/2018 or when the prize is claimed in this lucky number giveaway. Click on the following link to enter: https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/3fbd229811107d1f


I am reprinting an excerpt from this short story below where you will also find links to the Amazon version of the book and also the Mindscapes collection. You c...

Free through January 14, 2018 with coupon code ZE68J: "Eternal Quest" short story

On its surface, this speculative fiction short story (7,800 words) deals with one man's obsessive quest for knowledge and the devastating price he must pay for the knowledge he ultimately acquires. Beneath the surface, this story is about deep friendships complicated by unrequited love, split loyalties, the interplay of id, ego and superego, and existentialist lessons learned too late in life.

This is one of my earliest short stories, written when I was a writing major at Queens College in the...

Free with coupon code RAE25 through January 7, 2018 -- the two shortest stories from my Mindscapes SF & Speculative Fiction collection: "Justice" and "The Riddle of the Sphinx: Solved"

From now until January 7, 2018 you can download a copy of two of the short stories in my Mindscapes collection only at Smashwords with the coupon code by clicking here or on the cover page below and entering the coupon code RAE25 a checkout.If you are not a member of Smashwords, you will need to sign up for a free account by providing a  user name and email address. This is not my requirement but that of Smashwords. (The same is true for downloading free or paid books from Amazon, B...

Amazon Reader's Reviews of My Intellectual Property, Science Fiction and Poetry Books

If you have downloaded any of my books or short stories from Amazon, Smashwords or other retailers, thank you! I hope you enjoyed reading them as much as I have writing them. But whether that is the case or not, I would very much appreciate honest reviews from my readers since very few weigh in. I do not pay for reviews or ask friends or family to write reviews of my books, but I always appreciate hearing what my readers think. If you'd like to know what readers who left reviews have said abo...

Amazon Giveaway -- "End of Days" SF short story from my Mindscapes collection

Please click on the following link to enter an Amazon Giveaway for a chance to win one of the ten SF short stories in my Mindscapes collection: "End of Days". The giveaway ends 1/7/2018 or when the prize is claimed in this lucky number giveaway. Click on the following link to enter: https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/593fdc74be716ded


I am reprinting an excerpt from this short story below where you will also find links to the Amazon version of the book and also the Mindscapes collection. You ca...

Free speculative fiction short story through December 24, 2017 with Coupon Code ZE68J at checkout -- "Eternal Quest"

On its surface, this speculative fiction short story (7,800 words) deals with one man's obsessive quest for knowledge and the devastating price he must pay for the knowledge he ultimately attains. It is also about the pain of unrequited love, the selfless sacrifice made in the name of friendship no matter the personal cost, and the tragedy that can result when one pursues lesser important things with mindless tenacity. Nothing else I have ever written since those happy, productive days as a c...

"Earth Mother" SF Short Story Free Download with Coupon + Free Preview Ends December 25, 2017

You can read an extended preview of the short story below and you can also download the complete short story free of charge with coupon code RAE25 through December 25 by clicking here or on the book cover below. You can also give a copy as a gift free of charge if you MANUALLY ENTER THE COUPON CODE RAE25 AT CHECKOUT. 

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SF Short Story Preview: "Earth Mother" (C) 2011, 2014 Victor D. Lopez


A mysterious visitor from another world wakes a young, ambitious woman in the...

Free through December 20 with coupon code RAE25: Two SF short stories from my Mindscapes collection

This publication is a compilation of two science fiction/speculative fiction short stories. It is reprinted from Mindscapes: Ten Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Stories (C) 2014 by Victor D. López.

In the first short story, "Justice", a man is being tried for the last remaining capital offense in a kinder, gentler, truly unified world in the not too distant future. In the second, "Riddle of the Sphinx: Solved" the secrets of the Sphinx are finally revealed to a curious world in p...

Free through 12/20/2017 with coupon code RZ76G -- Book of Dreams 1/e: Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Stories

For the first time in many years, I am making available the digital version of my first collection of short stories free of charge through December 20, 2017. While the coupon code is active, you can download a copy of the book in any of the leading eBook formats by clicking on the book cover below or by clicking here.  The coupon code should automatically be entered for you at the book's Smashwords page. You can also give a copy of the book to a friend as a gift, but to do so free of cha...

Free through December 20: Speculative fiction short story "Mergs (Or Why Godot Can't Come)

In a world that worships power and raises human beings onto pedestals erected from the insubstantial building blocks of ego, hubris, and self-delusion, it is no wonder that we look for meaning and enlightenment in all the wrong places. But what if even the most wretched soul amongst us were a god in a singular universe whom sentient beings worship and completely depend upon for their survival?

Click on the book cover below to download or give this short story as a gift free of charge by using...