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My first novel Eye Of The Storm is out now.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NBQKKQU
It's a post-apocalyptic sci-fi adventure that avoids some of the common tropes of the sub-genre. No zombies. No macho Rambo-like heroes. The focus is the journey the characters are on, and the world that surrounds them. Less the Walking Dead, more Mad Max, where the world itself is an enemy.
Due to the trope changes, I'm curious if there is an audience for it. It has sold moderately well, but the self-defeating artist within can't help but wonder if it should have followed some of those tropes after all.
Thoughts?
RK

Trigger warning: These are all adult level books with the best science I could research--sometimes too much science for some readers. If you are sensitive about violence, war, hunting, weapons, hetero-sex, human/alien romantic relationships, references to rape, depictions of murder, drugs, and so on, they may not be right for you.
Time Travel - 3 books structured in a loose trilogy - Adventure with a heavy dose of romance.
Heart of Fire Time of Ice
Paradox: On the Sharp Edge of the Blade
All the Moments in Forever
Space Opera/Post Apocalyptic/Alien Invasion - Adventure with the unspoken question: How can we live with friendly aliens from other planets, if we cannot live with each other?
The Time of The Cat
Second Wave
Confederation

The magazine FARTHER STARS THAN THESE has published “Dark Matter” by C.E. Gee.
This is one of our popular Jerry/Buck stories. It takes maybe three minutes to read.
The story explains the origin and workings of dark matter, includes a female android as one character.
This story will be the magazine’s featured story the week starting 26October2017. After that week is over you’ll have to scroll down the magazine’s Archive Department. Look for October 2017.
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The magazine FARTHER STARS THAN THESE has published “Dark Matter” by C.E. Gee.
This is one of our popular Jerry/Buck stories. It takes maybe three minutes to read.
The story explains the origin and workings of dark matter, includes a female android as one character.
Please GOTO
http://www.fartherstars.com/search/la...

Which shocks the heck out of me.
But I digress.
This is my initial effort, free if you're sub'd to KU:

_Shift: A thriller of multiple dimensions.

When a wanderer meets a pilgrim
You probably would never have heard "Mathematical Fiction". If you ever wonder how it would have been if human relationships are mathematically modeled, please read this book.
To Buy:
https://www.amazon.com/When-wanderer-...

The R.E.M. Effect is my debut thriller, and the Kindle version is available FOR FREE today through Friday, November 17th. Check it out when you get a chance, and tell your friends! https://www.amazon.com/R-M-Effect-Thr...
And be on the lookout for the sequel, The R.E.M. Project, hitting the Amazon shelves this holiday season. Thanks for your support!
The R.E.M. Effect

E.M. wrote: "LOL I mean book!"
Thanks! I appreciate that!
Now if I can only get a few thousand others to look at _Shift: A thriller of multiple dimensions. and have the same reaction... ;-)
Hello there! After introducing myself, I thought to post the synopsis of my first published book.
Also worth mentioning, that the book is free for the taking till November the 18th! ebook
Individuum: Delusions of grandeur
A Naturalistic view on what Earth has to offer in the far future. The book portrays life as is; nothing more, nothing less. It often wanders off from the beaten path, just to seek out the truth behind reality itself.
Synopsis:
We find ourselves in Greater New York, where order was kept under tight control for many years. As of late however, radicals from unknown origins are causing great havoc. As they get more aggressive, the state tries whatever it must to eliminate the new threat. They blame a prestigious planetary company, where Alivia Hart is tasked to contradict those accusations. Unfortunately, things turn out differently from what she had expected. In her final attempt to make things right, she unexpectedly stumbles upon Frank Blackman. This is when they both learn that running from reality is not always an option…
Content disclaimer: This book is for mature audience only, and may not be suitable for younger audiences! The use of intense and in some cases graphic violence; the use of inappropriate and expletive language; the use of substance abuse in the form of excessive drinking and smoking or in taking drugs that have physiological and psychological effects; the use of nudity and explicit sexual content, in some cases in the form of detailed explanations of intercourse.
Also worth mentioning, that the book is free for the taking till November the 18th! ebook
Individuum: Delusions of grandeur
A Naturalistic view on what Earth has to offer in the far future. The book portrays life as is; nothing more, nothing less. It often wanders off from the beaten path, just to seek out the truth behind reality itself.
Synopsis:
We find ourselves in Greater New York, where order was kept under tight control for many years. As of late however, radicals from unknown origins are causing great havoc. As they get more aggressive, the state tries whatever it must to eliminate the new threat. They blame a prestigious planetary company, where Alivia Hart is tasked to contradict those accusations. Unfortunately, things turn out differently from what she had expected. In her final attempt to make things right, she unexpectedly stumbles upon Frank Blackman. This is when they both learn that running from reality is not always an option…
Content disclaimer: This book is for mature audience only, and may not be suitable for younger audiences! The use of intense and in some cases graphic violence; the use of inappropriate and expletive language; the use of substance abuse in the form of excessive drinking and smoking or in taking drugs that have physiological and psychological effects; the use of nudity and explicit sexual content, in some cases in the form of detailed explanations of intercourse.
CeDany wrote: "Marcell wrote: "Hello there! After introducing myself, I thought to post the synopsis of my first published book.
Also worth mentioning, that the book is free for the taking till November the 18th..."
Nice to meet you too; CeDany!
You only need to have an amazon account, to be able to read it; even in your browser (with kindle cloud service). I myself do not own a kindle device, and it worked perfectly (as long as you're logged in). Would share the ePub file, but I gave an exclusive for 90 days to Kindle.
Thank you for your interest, and best wishes for You and your family!
Take care!
Marcell
Also worth mentioning, that the book is free for the taking till November the 18th..."
Nice to meet you too; CeDany!
You only need to have an amazon account, to be able to read it; even in your browser (with kindle cloud service). I myself do not own a kindle device, and it worked perfectly (as long as you're logged in). Would share the ePub file, but I gave an exclusive for 90 days to Kindle.
Thank you for your interest, and best wishes for You and your family!
Take care!
Marcell


Six months after release it is still ranking and selling well
Now only 99 cents
Here is what top Amazon reviewer said - "Wow, what a ride! When you think that the whole story's over, it's really just beginning. This was a true page-turner, and I'm so glad that I took the time to read it. It's scary and thought provoking and you'll be thinking about it for a long time to come."

Cruising the 'Poc

R. S. Merritt


The Deception
Mysterious disappearances occur all over the world. Is it alien abduction?
Remote first contact on Mars leads to a strange offer of help to humanity from an alien race, the Jazene. War between the Jazene and an ancient enemy breaks out in the space near Earth. Severe collateral damage to the Moon occurs. Earth suffers the dire consequences.
Who is responsible for the genetic monstrosities that ravage the Earth? Both sides blame their enemy. Who has the abductees? A worldwide alliance forms to handle the aftermath. Are the promises to help restore the Earth genuine or are they a deception?

A young woman struggles to keep Earth from facing the same fate as Mars.
This story discloses how Mars seeded microbial life to Earth, how the asteroid belt was created, why Mars is the red planet.
A civilization on Europa is disclosed.
Please GOTO
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If you’re in the magazine’s December-January edition, back out to the FLASH FICTION DEPARTMENT, then please read our story “American Holocaust” at the bottom of the page in the Best of 2017 listings.

Link:
https://www.amazon.com/Starlight-Star...

Pol Bard, a computer that aspires to be human, reveals the secrets he has discovered about the universe, life and love. He offers his unique ideas to the heroes of the world, now and to be, about how to save humanity from the storm of disasters coming our way.
Pol Bard

The ebook is free today and tomorrow on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078G41HM6/

Just before he has to give up and go home broke, Captain Seddry finds the perfect world. It's rich in ore, has a breathable atmosphere, and it even has a reasonable climate — an ideal place for a new Langon colony. The fuzzy natives won't be a problem. They don't have any large weapons or even airplanes, making them too primitive to ever find the mining colony hidden away in an isolated valley. Or so he thinks.
After Lannes finds a colony of invading aliens, strange furless beings from space, he teams up with his sister and her boyfriend to free his world.
And then he disappears.

Please GOTO https://aphelion-webzine.com. Click the cover, then click the flash fiction department, then at the bottom of the page click "AMERICAN HOLOCAUST." Enjoy!


It tells the story of four people, stranded on an alien world, who are drawn into an epic battle for freedom and survival against the Mindruler and his Mindbender servants. He rules with absolute power, reducing all who oppose him to the ultimate slavery of being prisoners in their own minds, unable to control their actions or implement a single decision of their own…
If you're interested, do take part in the giveaway for the chance of winning a free copy!

this is a story that is set in Cleveland, Ohio. It follows an African American sixteen-year-old boy named Orion hill, and the mysterious phenomenon better known as the green flash that only happens once every hundred years. It grants curtain people with powers they thought of in that moment. This event alone changes the very fabric of his life. As he then encounters foes that he thought were lost in his past, he also has to learn to live with the death of his friends that died in the same tragic accident he himself to was in. Chris Boleman, an enemy that rises and challenges Orion in ways he never thought a human can endure. he will execute his plans to rid the world of currency pushing Orion to race around town to stop him from destroying the world as we all know it.


Hi readers and writers! The linked book is currently on Kindle Scout taking nominations - here's the link if anyone wanted to vote! And you get a free copy if it's taken up.
https://kindlescout.amazon.com/p/M0AV...

Also, there’s much fake news concerning the moon landing in 1969 as being staged. Fortunately there are cable television shows showing how impossible it was to stage the fake moon landing using the video technology of the time.
Want to know what really happened with Apollo 11?
Want to know the truth about aliens on the moon?
APHELION WEBZINE has published “For All Mankind” by C.E. Gee.
Please Goto https://kinzuakid.blogspot.com/2018/0...

The action takes place in orbit and on the moon and plays heavily on how the commercial world will shape our exploration.
I started this a few years ago and now with companies like SpaceX shaping the way, I feel quite excited about the future and hope my story appears relevant and entertaining.
Sorry for the ramble, this is my first ever forum post and I'm keen to connect with like minded folk.
EVAC: IGNITION

UpLyft Protocol tells the story of a group of friends exiled from their coastal homes by sea level rise and a forced Relocation War. The novel begins more than thirty years after their exile, on the morning before the first of three Trial Lifts into space. The friends reflect on their new culture and changes to the natural environment since they left their homes by the sea. It has lots of tech (gene/nano/cyber) and involves space colonization, but never loses touch with the history of Earth.
Thanks again for the group and everything you do on Goodreads.

This weekend there's another multi-author offer on science-fiction and fantasy ebooks, over 100 titles at 99c each...


Please click the below link.
The Greeks were not the heroes in the Trojan War, they were the villains.
Prepare to have your mind blown.
Please GOTO http://www.aphelion-webzine.com/flash...

Hello You Lovely, Lovely People,
Social proof being what it's all about, I need your eyes. My eyes are also available for all literary escapades, but the Amazonian Algy Rhythms want real readers with real opinions.
23RD CENTURY LIVE FOREVER (eBook and Print):
http://amzn.to/2ICPw5h
This book has taken 25 years to write and attacks massive themes like the ingress of Artificial Intelligence, (Anti) Social Media and the coming of the Apocalypse, which will inevitably be a bit of an anti-climax with middling reviews itself.
Love you, love your work.
CG

Please click the link listed below.
An Air Force vet gave us the inspiration for the story.
If you know anyone in the U.S. Air Force, ask them about what you discovered in the story. If they know the details watch them clam up! LOL.
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If you're interested in science fiction, I have made a new original story about wormhole and an alien empire. It's available in paperback and Kindle version.
You can see the Amazon link below:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1980795762
Synopsis:
On Oct. 25, 1965, two high school students witnessed the kidnapping of their friends by some foreign creatures, who brought them through a portal believed to be connected to another universe. After cracking the codes around the portal, these two embarked on an intergalactic adventure to save their friends.
THE PLANET OF ORIXA.
Scientist Erales Zavora only worked at the Department of Machinery and Technology to pay for her mother's medical bills. But she soon found out the truth about the aliens kept in the laboratory, and their use for the Emperor. As rebellions against the Empire broke out, she started breaching the rules and became the number one fugitive for holding the Emperor's secret.
How do you guys increase sales as a self-published author?
David

My name is Clay. I love sci-fi and many other genres. Being a new author I would like to introduce my book, a GameLit genre sci-fi piece somewhere on "goodreads". Any particular place we can post our new titles and where to find them for download? I don't want to break any rules or spam, so if the moderators, mods deem it okay I will elaborate on that.
New to good reads, usually I pick up a new book by word of mouth from my brother or Brian (an incredible book enthusiast) and other people I have similar tastes with. Goodreads is an exciting discovery for me. Thank you in advance.
Clay

Tales from the Rift is a comic novel where 7 aliens and Colson Metter, a human, hold a ghost story telling contest for the prize of prizes. As each contestant tells a tale of horror steeped in its peoples' biology and culture, Metter tries to find a way to cheat the contest:. Losing could mean his life! Get your copy at https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Rift-spa...
Thanks,
Bruce S Levine

I am a science-fiction author and my debut novel Dreams has just been published last week. It is a dystopian, sci-fi thriller, and the description follows:
Adam Knox is an ambassador. He is sent by his government to arrest lawbreakers and condemn them to imprisonment. However, he does not know the citizens he is arresting are being used for upper-class consumption.
Knox is enticed to look the other way, for the government showers him with luxuries. But when he finally witnesses the disintegration of the citizens, he can no longer accept the life he hides within.
The world above is crumbling, and the apocalypse is near, but when Knox leaves the safety of his position and joins the resistance, he is forced to choose between his humanity and his life.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CQ11F65
Feel free to check it out, or ask me questions about it on my goodreads author page. Thanks!

This extremely short story (well under three minutes to read) explains the reason for recent actions by terrorists.
Should you have any interest in religion, this story is for you. Wonder what happens when you die?
This story is the latest in our popular MARGARET AS UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR series.
Please GOTO
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My name is Guillermo Stitch and you can check out my website at http://www.guillermostitch.com
I've written a short Sci-fi Noir called 'Literature®' which I will release on Amazon and Kindle on July 1st. Meanwhile it's already up on Goodreads and in exchange for some of the limited number of ARC's available, is already attracting amazing reviews, for which I'm so grateful.
You can take a look at https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Please get in touch if you are interested in an ARC. I won't be giving many more out.
Thanks!

I am a self-publisher with one scifi novel (Stellar Fusion) out. Lost Souls (book 2) will publish fall 2018. I would love to hear what more readers think of Stellar Fusion. I'll be doing ARC for Lost Souls in late summer.

It’s been a decade since the first attack. This time, they’re taking everything… and everyone.
Earth's only hope is a small team of peace-keepers on a suicide mission to infiltrate the mother ship and relay critical defense information home.
Sergeant Atana is the tip of Earth's spear.
Sergeant Bennett must guard her with his life.
I'm a cross-genre fiction writer: scifi, military, fantasy, and romance. So there are alternate futures, guns, aliens, magic, lusty curves and muscles in my books.
I write dreamy dystopian scifi. Contradiction, I know. Nothing hard/historical about it.
Please feel free to friend me here on GR and/or message if you'd like! I would love to connect with other scifi peeps (authors and readers)!
Hope y'all are having a great day!
-Elysia


I have written a five-book science fiction series.
The first book, which is free to download from Amazon, has been chosen by the Cinebooks company for a cinebook project.
The project will be completed later this year.
CINE-BOOKS offer a new kind of storytelling entertainment for the whole family by combining the advantages of books and movies.
You will be able to READ, LISTEN and even WATCH the book in the near future.!
As opposed to traditional film adaptations, cine-books boast the full written content of original stories, with each episode cinematically visualized.
Download Revenge of Zeeka: Zeeka and the Zombies for free at Amazon Universal Link http://Author.to/BCM786

https://www.goodreads.com/story/list/...


In the late 21st century, the no-nonsense ecologist Zara Dimitrov can never understand or forgive her father, a director for a national park, for dying when she was in high school. So she runs away from home to begin a life of solitude while at the same time trying to carry on his legacy of conservation. Early in the 22nd century, eighteen-year-old Mashechka McGuigan lives in a suppressed society whose sole purpose is to fulfill the so-called Mission for Humanity, the monumental endeavor to evacuate ecologically-devastated Earth. And she absolutely must replace her father as the mission’s leader. As the time to do so draws near, her uncertainties are exposed when she discovers the dark truth about her mother. Approaching the mid-23rd century, a bitter scientist named Patrick Nelson, whose profession has vaporized, works to help as many people as possible survive famine and disease. Then he uncovers that the one key to survival is lost.
How their lives are entwined will take the reader on an odyssey that includes the heart of Africa, the eastern seaboard of North America, the mountains of Eastern Europe, the wetlands of Australia, the agricultural expanses of Latin America, and the political turmoil of Southeast Asia. With an arsenal of scientific evidence and societal trends, Killing Juggernaut plunges the reader into the future to reveal the consequences of creating a world with virtually no basis for survival.
This novel is like a mix between Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, Kafka's The Trial, and Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.
"Mournful, prophetic power." -- Kirkus Reviews
"This could very well be the future of our planet... it is incredibly realistic." -- ReaderViews.com
Check out the trailer!
Available as paperback or ebook versions at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Kobo, Copia, Gardners Books, Baker and Taylor, eSentral, Scribd, Ciando, EBSCO, and Vearsa

https://www.amazon.com/Solar-Scavenge...
Jacket Blurb:
Solar Scavengers are rogue spacers considered a security threat to the Commonwealth. StarSec has hunted them for years, but the balance of power shifts when alien technology abandoned on Mars is discovered by a faction of the scavs. This technology could benefit humanity, but unfortunately, it falls into the hands of a tyrant named Feng who plans to use it against the Commonwealth. The solar system is plunged into war, and now, the future of the human race depends on a young man drawn into the situation by a mysterious girl...

Anyway, over the long term there occurs slightly less than two Fridays the 13th a year.
The day is perceived as unlucky because of the attempted destruction of the KNIGHTS TEMPLAR caused by the greed of a past leader of France.
Please GOTO the below listed link to a blog. At the top of the blog click the cross displayed there.
At the end of the article there is a link to the story “Neil’s Capstone” published in Aphelion Webzine. The very last scene in this long story discusses the KNIGHTS TEMPLAR.
Please GOTO https://kinzuakid.blogspot.com
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This weekend, Patty Jansen is running another multi-author offer on science-fiction and fantasy ebooks, over 100 titles at 99c each. I ..."
Nice next time you do an anthology let me know perhaps I can join in