Reboots by bestselling fantasy author Mercedes Lackey (
ISFDB,
Wikipedia,
SFE) & Cody Martin (
ISFDB) is an entry in the Stellar Guild multi-author series which pairs a story written by a well-known established writer with a follow-up in the same setting by a talented newcomer, this one a sci-fi paranormal space opera with undead creatures crewing missions in the harsh conditions which would damage normal humans, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Phoenix Pick Press.
This is their featured Free Book of the Month selection for January. This has previously been offered free in 2014, and apparently had some formatting issues at the time, which hopefully have since been fixed.
Currently free throughout the month of January directly @
the publisher's dedicated promo page (DRM-free ePub/Mobi bundle available worldwide)
There are two tie-in offers this month, also for Stellar Guild titles: the first is for a sequel volume by the same creative team for $3.99 (also previously offered as a tie-in deal), the second includes the sequel volume and adds two more Stellar Guild titles from other authors (one has previously been free, and the other you may have already gotten as a tie-in deal to the Turtledove freebie last month) for a total of $9.99.
Description
VAMPIRES, ZOMBIES AND WEREWOLVES IN SPACE
Space travel is tough. No air, cosmic radiation, absolute lack of other life-sustaining essentials.
What better way to deal with space travel than to man ships with creatures that regenerate or don’t need air, or are immune to various maladies?
In a future world where zombies, vampires and werewolves co-exist with ‘normal’ humans on Earth, these ships are staffed by a motley crew of various types of undead or near-dead creatures.
Of course no one really knows what happens when zombies and vampires are squeezed together in the close confines of a spaceship.
Don’t you love surprises?