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iansales · 06-25-2012, 05:15 AM

Remember how sf novels used to be only 40,000 or 60,000 words, and they'd appear in series, like EC Tubb's Dumarest books, or Brian Stableford's Hooded Swan series, or even Jo Clayton's Diadem series. Nowadays, genre novels are all huge, 120,000 words or more, and a lot of that is padding to make up the word count. Ebooks don't need to be big, because they don't need fat spines to take up shelf-space and so attract buyers.

The Ockham's Razor series by Keith Sheffield is a space opera series of short novels about the adventures and misadventures of the crew of a small freighter. It should appeal to all fans of Firefly, Neal Asher, Iain M Banks, David Weber, Sharon Lee & Steve Miler, etc.

The first book is To Catch A Thief, and it's available now:

UK - only £3.99: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Catch-Thief-...615389&sr=8-11

US - only $4.99: http://www.amazon.com/Catch-Thief-Oc...eith+sheffield

The second book, Cowards Of Us All, will be published in August, and the third book, The First Law, in November. Subsequent books will follow at intervals of 4 to 6 months.

06-25-2012, 05:15 AM	#1
iansales Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2012 Device: none	New Space Opera Series - Ockham's Razor Remember how sf novels used to be only 40,000 or 60,000 words, and they'd appear in series, like EC Tubb's Dumarest books, or Brian Stableford's Hooded Swan series, or even Jo Clayton's Diadem series. Nowadays, genre novels are all huge, 120,000 words or more, and a lot of that is padding to make up the word count. Ebooks don't need to be big, because they don't need fat spines to take up shelf-space and so attract buyers. The Ockham's Razor series by Keith Sheffield is a space opera series of short novels about the adventures and misadventures of the crew of a small freighter. It should appeal to all fans of Firefly, Neal Asher, Iain M Banks, David Weber, Sharon Lee & Steve Miler, etc. The first book is To Catch A Thief, and it's available now: UK - only £3.99: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Catch-Thief-...615389&sr=8-11 US - only $4.99: http://www.amazon.com/Catch-Thief-Oc...eith+sheffield The second book, Cowards Of Us All, will be published in August, and the third book, The First Law, in November. Subsequent books will follow at intervals of 4 to 6 months.