As a special treat for today, Wildside Press is running two freebies, one probably for a limited time:
Wildside Press Presents: Discover A New Author: Joseph Green contains a science fiction short story, originally published in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1982, by the eponymous author (
ISFDB,
Wikipedia,
SFE), who also did educational work for NASA for many decades, explaining scientific concepts to laypersons.
This series of free ebooks is designed to promote authors you may not have tried before. In this case, Joseph Green. Joseph Green pursued a dual career before retiring from NASA, 37 years in the American military and civilian space programs, while writing at nights and on weekends. His stories, many written -- as was this one -- with wife Patrice Milton, have appeared in the major science fiction magazines and numerous original anthologies. His five science fiction novels and an earlier collection of stories are available on Amazon and other e-book outlets. This story, "EasyEd" -- from his recent Wildside Press collection, Running Wild: Unfettered Stories of Imagination -- is typical of Joseph Green's work. If you enjoy this one you will like the others.
And there's a repeat of
The Melba Marlett Minipack, containing 2 short vintage mystery stories by the late author (
biographical obituary at Alliance High School), if you happened to miss it earlier.
Speaking of science made fiction, a reminder that the
Humble Book Bundle Science Fiction By Real Scientists, chock-full of titles by academics and scholars who are also science fiction writers, presented by textbook publisher Springer, expires tomorrow on Wednesday at 11 AM Pacific Time. In addition to all the speculative fiction, there are also 5 non-fiction titles in the lot about the relation of science fiction to real science, in case you wanted some backgrounders on how the stuff depicted in fiction would work out (or not) in real life. One of them is available at the $1 minimum tier (and was shaping up to be a nifty read when I started skimming it), and if it turns out you like it, IIRC HB gives you up to 2 weeks after the end of the bundle to bump up your pledge to a higher tier and get all the books, if you wish.