Edward McKeown's New Book is Available on Amazon

Edward McKeown's newest book, My Outcast State (The Maauro Chronicles Book 1) and it has some really great info on the book and the author Edward,

If you get a chance, log HERE  for more info

Trathh & Other Stories Available

 

Hey, Dave Scholes just wrote me a note that his book is available for free for a limited time.

Here is what he sent me, and if you have been enjoying Trathh stories like I have this is a golden opportunity. 

• The e-book version of my new book “TRATHH and other science fiction stories” will be free on Amazon for 5 days from 12.01am 22 November (US Pacific Time):   
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  http://www.amazon.com/TRATHH-other-science-fiction-stories-ebook/dp/B00GQY7QOW/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1384832974&sr=1-1&keywords=TRATHH+and+other+science+fiction+stories
  
  
  
  

Apollo Era Engines Recovered from the Depths?

From the Miami Herald via Xnewsman and others, is word that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has made good on his promise and has raised an engine thought to be from the Apollo Saturn rocket that launched American astronauts towards the moon. Bezos and NASA on Wednesday that the rusty relics fished from the bottom of the Atlantic may well be parts to two Saturn V F-1 engines of which the Saturn main stage had 5. Bezos says it is difficult to determine which mission they came from, as the serial numbers have corroded off most of the exposed surfaces. NASA is helping track down the information on the engines.

 NASA's Saturn V still holds the record for the only rocket to take humans beyond earth orbit as well as holding the record for largest payload. Fully fueled, the Saturn tipped the scale a 6.5 million pounds. It could loft 260,000 pounds to low Earth orbit (leo) of which 90,000 could be delivered to Moon orbit.

Read more at the WIKI site here And the Miami Herald here

Thanks to Xnewsman for the info

Review: Writers on the Wrong Side of the Road

Writers on the Wrong Side of the Road

by Sassy Brit and Goodreads author editor Clayton Bye

p/b 312 pages

Couple of heads up with this collection.  First it really can not be described as science fiction and in most cases not even speculative fiction.  Then again, some are.

Each story has to be approached on it's own merits because the stories are so eclectic a mix that one bears little in common with others in the book.  

Eighteen stories varying in length from several pages to a full novelette length.

The best way maybe to describe this experiment is maybe to recall a series of story collections edited by Harlan Ellison called "Dangerous Visions" 

Now Ellison's collections were stories that often were collections of stories that in most cases could not find an outlet in the general media because of content.  

In that, we have stories many times stronger than Ellison's works, so it is likely these will only be available in this tome.  

They are explicit, no holds barred stories, from the most unusual love story Malpas at the end of the book, to Hold Up at the start, there will always be something that will push the point to strange new heights.  

If you are looking for science fiction here, forget it.  But if you want stories that you will not likely find anywhere else period, but entertaining none the leas, even if disturbing!

Available on Amazon and you will not feel cheated!!!

check it out!   Here is the Amazon Kindle version link, you can search out some really good deals.

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David Scholes "For Odin, for Thor, for Asgard"

Author and BMU contributor Scholes sent in a note telling us about his newest book.

What I like about Scholes is he is not afraid to tell us whats us.  Boils down to if you like the works he has let Beam Me Up read, then you will most likely enjoy the book a well.

Check out the note:

• "For Odin, for Thor, for Asgard" - a collection of tales of the Norse gods.
• It's had some mixed reviews on Amazon but if your readers enjoyed "OdinForce" and "The Intervention" - they may enjoy some of these stories.  
• Here's the link:  http://www.amazon.com/For-Odin-Thor-Asgard-ebook/dp/B00AHNE27W
• The book was first available December 2012, but David will be making it available free for 5 days from 5 March.

Thanks for the update Dave!

Speculative Fiction an e-book from Amazon,

David Scholes, whom we have had on the program several times, writes with some good news:

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• I've just published a new e-book on Amazon - here's the link:
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• New E-book on Amazon Link
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• I'm also in the process of getting it published by Lulu as a paperback.
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• There are some familiar stories such as: Trath, The Intervention, Equalisation, and OdinForce plus some alternate history stories and a bunch of other stories.

Cheers  Dave

Thanks for the heads up Dave!

Alien Hunter, Star Trooper

As you notice, just below this post is a review of Dave Scholes Soldier of the Brell.

Also I have mentioned to you that he has been an ongoing sponsor of  BMU and has decided to do so again.  Here is what Dave wrote :

With "Alien Hunter, Star Trooper" -I was going to cut off the original offer at 11.59pm Wednesday 18 July (US Pacific time) then re-introduce it from 12.01am Saturday 21 July to 11.59pm Sunday 22 July (US Pacific time). 

is that ok? hummm  Check for your self on Amazon and get a free one on Dave!

Are Books Passe? Web Giants Envision the Next Chapter

Nelson sent me an article in the New York Times that reports on Amazon's newest e-book device. One that connects directly to an e-book seller (Amazon mayhaps? hummm.....?) The writer wonders if this might might be the start of a trend that would ultimately end the printed book's dominance. *here is a link to the article*

Here are my thoughts on E-books as a replacement for printed material in general.


hummm, electronic books are nothing new. Even the question itself is disingenuous. Look at the sales of just the Potter books to make my point. People take books for granted. You get a small faction that will tout that it saves trees. But books save trees. Think about it. Once you have a book, you never need that book again. You always have it. But every time you want to read an electronic page you must use energy. Some where there is something burning or turning to make that possible. Not so with the book. The book is not the lowest rung on the technology ladder, it is the peak of multimedia efficiency. Think of the book and the information analog of the bike. The bike is tech that is every bit as old as the book but shows no sign of being replaced any time soon. Augmented yes, replaced no. Why? Because its such a wonderfully efficient machine. It allows a person to move with very little energy, rivaling any animal in existence. The book is in the same class. It imparts information on several different levels and does it in a wildly efficient manner. Plus there has to be something to the pure tactile enjoyment of reading a book. Like a bike, a book is so much more than the sum of its parts. Until something comes along to make that moot, I don't see books going anywhere. Plus with a starting price of around $300 U.S. I am not rushing out to purchase one, no matter how much of a geek I am. 300 dollars to me is still at least 12 books on my worst days book buying. Nope, I don't see myself as a standard bearer of an antiquated tech either. For now and for the foreseeable future, I feel that I am getting the best bang for my buck and being pretty damn efficient at it as well.