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ATDrake · 02-26-2015, 07:10 AM

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon: (linkage for the lot)

Bones Burnt Black by Stephen Euin Cobb (ISFDB, Wikipedia), a sci-fi suspense novel involving a spaceship crew racing to outwit a serial killer saboteur in their midst, originally out from small imprint August Press in 2004.

A serial killer--brilliant, methodical and suicidal--sabotages a large commercial spacecraft's engines to set it on an eight-day trajectory to burn up in the sun, then remains aboard ship to murder and torment its passengers and crew. With no other ships near enough to reach them, rescue is impossible, and the few survivors fight their unknown enemy while trying to invent a way to survive the growing heat of the sun.

Indistinguishable from Magic: Predictions of Revolutionary Future Science, a mini-collection of his non-fiction-ish futurism essays, some originally published in Jim Baen's Universe magazine.

This collection of six articles--written by an experienced futurist who has interviewed over 300 people for their opinion about the future--describes several of the far future scientific and technological innovations which will transform our civilization from what it is now into an exponentially larger, faster, stronger and more dynamic civilization than can be contained on this planet, or in this solar system, or within this universe. These technologies will allow us to expand through those boundaries and find new unimagined boundaries beyond them to break through.

[ETA: turns out this one is also backlist and not self-pub]

Plague at Redhook, a hard sf novel involving a group of explorers affected by a mysterious ailment occurring on a planet which becomes under threat of destruction to keep it from spreading, also out from August Press in 1999.

Exploration of the newly discovered Earth-like planet Redhook stops when—for sixteen days—sleeping explorers refuse to wake, angry ones never calm down, and one lust-filled woman chases everyone. Assuming it to be a disease, the U.N. military places the planet under strict quarantine and, terrified it will spread, consider using thousands of nuclear warheads to destroy the plague by annihilating the entire biosphere of Redhook, along with all forty-seven infected explorers.

Cobb also offers a few additional self-pub-looking sfnal titles and some more futurism non-fic, if you're interested.

Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Almost All the Way Home From the Stars: Seven Science Fiction Stories by the late Campbell Award-winner & Hugo/Nebula-nominee Jay Lake (ISFDB, Wikipedia) & Nebula-nominee Ruth Nestvold (ISFDB, Wikipedia), their collection of collaborations on Exactly What It Says In The Title, which were mostly previously published, with some also appearing in those Gardner Dozois-edited Year's Best Science Fiction volumes.

Near future dystopia, colonies in space, galactic empires: this collection has it all! "Almost All the Way Home From the Stars" is a collection of seven science fiction short stories by award winning writers Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold. The settings range from galactic empires on distant worlds, to a dystopia in the near future warped by fundamentalism, to an alternate US where slavery was never abolished.

Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Bernardo's House by Hugo & Nebula Award-winner James Patrick Kelly (ISFDB, Wikipedia), whom you may know best from his excellent short story "Think Like A Dinosaur", which was adapted into a The Outer Limits episode. This is domestic AI novella which was originally published as a Fictionwise-exclusive e-book short in 2004, and is now labelled as 1st in his Future Fiction series.

A domotic story, a conscious living house who speaks and shows, through the objects that fill her, the need to be inhabited, to be eternally possessed by a tenant.

Get ready for an unusual visit to "Bernardo's House", where the topic of home automation is inseparably interwoven with Artificial Intelligence: what would happen if such a House would lose her "beloved tenant", and if in his place - with a totally unexpected visit - came a strange figure? Unknown to the House, which will question each and every certainty of her life.

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ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon: (linkage for the lot) Bones Burnt Black by Stephen Euin Cobb (ISFDB, Wikipedia), a sci-fi suspense novel involving a spaceship crew racing to outwit a serial killer saboteur in their midst, originally out from small imprint August Press in 2004. A serial killer--brilliant, methodical and suicidal--sabotages a large commercial spacecraft's engines to set it on an eight-day trajectory to burn up in the sun, then remains aboard ship to murder and torment its passengers and crew. With no other ships near enough to reach them, rescue is impossible, and the few survivors fight their unknown enemy while trying to invent a way to survive the growing heat of the sun. Indistinguishable from Magic: Predictions of Revolutionary Future Science, a mini-collection of his non-fiction-ish futurism essays, some originally published in Jim Baen's Universe magazine. This collection of six articles--written by an experienced futurist who has interviewed over 300 people for their opinion about the future--describes several of the far future scientific and technological innovations which will transform our civilization from what it is now into an exponentially larger, faster, stronger and more dynamic civilization than can be contained on this planet, or in this solar system, or within this universe. These technologies will allow us to expand through those boundaries and find new unimagined boundaries beyond them to break through. [ETA: turns out this one is also backlist and not self-pub] Plague at Redhook, a hard sf novel involving a group of explorers affected by a mysterious ailment occurring on a planet which becomes under threat of destruction to keep it from spreading, also out from August Press in 1999. Exploration of the newly discovered Earth-like planet Redhook stops when—for sixteen days—sleeping explorers refuse to wake, angry ones never calm down, and one lust-filled woman chases everyone. Assuming it to be a disease, the U.N. military places the planet under strict quarantine and, terrified it will spread, consider using thousands of nuclear warheads to destroy the plague by annihilating the entire biosphere of Redhook, along with all forty-seven infected explorers. Cobb also offers a few additional self-pub-looking sfnal titles and some more futurism non-fic, if you're interested. Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon: Almost All the Way Home From the Stars: Seven Science Fiction Stories by the late Campbell Award-winner & Hugo/Nebula-nominee Jay Lake (ISFDB, Wikipedia) & Nebula-nominee Ruth Nestvold (ISFDB, Wikipedia), their collection of collaborations on Exactly What It Says In The Title, which were mostly previously published, with some also appearing in those Gardner Dozois-edited Year's Best Science Fiction volumes. Near future dystopia, colonies in space, galactic empires: this collection has it all! "Almost All the Way Home From the Stars" is a collection of seven science fiction short stories by award winning writers Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold. The settings range from galactic empires on distant worlds, to a dystopia in the near future warped by fundamentalism, to an alternate US where slavery was never abolished. Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon: Bernardo's House by Hugo & Nebula Award-winner James Patrick Kelly (ISFDB, Wikipedia), whom you may know best from his excellent short story "Think Like A Dinosaur", which was adapted into a The Outer Limits episode. This is domestic AI novella which was originally published as a Fictionwise-exclusive e-book short in 2004, and is now labelled as 1st in his Future Fiction series. A domotic story, a conscious living house who speaks and shows, through the objects that fill her, the need to be inhabited, to be eternally possessed by a tenant. Get ready for an unusual visit to "Bernardo's House", where the topic of home automation is inseparably interwoven with Artificial Intelligence: what would happen if such a House would lose her "beloved tenant", and if in his place - with a totally unexpected visit - came a strange figure? Unknown to the House, which will question each and every certainty of her life. Last edited by ATDrake; 02-26-2015 at 01:58 PM.