Start 2015 With a Whole Load of 99c Books
I’ve mentioned this once or twice now, I know, but Jan 1, 2015 is Patty Jansen’s Mega 99c SFF Book Sale. 47 sci-fi and fantasy authors have put up over 50 books in this great special offer. My own novel, The Credulity Nexus, is in there but I’m pretty sure you can find plenty to suit your taste. I will be buying 10 of these books myself. Ten great sci-fi novels for just $9.90!
So let me tell you about The Credulity Nexus. It’s a space opera – or, at least, the first book in a long series of space operas that start in the near future on Earth, the Moon and various space stations, and then move out beyond the Solar System to draw in other worlds and other species. There will be nine books in all, covering a span of ten thousand years.
The Credulity Nexus, indeed, the first three books, are based around the fumbling efforts of Moon-based private investigator Rik Sylver to keep himself and his friends alive as he is drawn ever deeper into the machinations of the transhuman inhabitants of Omega Point, a gigantic orbiting computer stuffed with the uploaded minds of 20,000 dead people. The transhumans have plenty of enemies on Earth, some of them very wealthy and very dangerous. And Rik finds himself being used and abused by both sides – and far too busy fighting fires to fight back.
The Credulity Nexus is populated with some of my favourite characters. Rik himself is a big, tough lovable type, straight as an arrow but prone to making bad decisions that land him and everyone around him in serious trouble. And one of those bad decisions was to courier a package for a client who turns out to be a deranged trillionaire, to discover the nightmare it contains, and then to lose it. Taking point for the transhumans is a woman called Rivers Valdinger, a one-time thief, now uploaded into a sophisticated robot body so that she can do the grunt work – sometimes the wet work – for her puppet-masters in Omega Point. And first on her to-do list is to steal a weaponised genetic modifier known as the credulity nexus. And if that means going through Rik Sylver to get it, that’s fine with her.
Ah well, I’ll let you discover these guys for yourself. The second part of the series (The Sentience Machine) will be released on Feb 2, which should give you plenty of time to read the first one.
Remember, it all starts on Jan 1 at Patty Jansen’s Mega 99c SFF Book Sale.
