Free (DRM-free) Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge by Mike Resnick [Award-Win Sci-Fi Short]

[ATDrake]

Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge by Mike Resnick (ISFDB, Wikipedia, SFE), prolific Hugo & Nebula Award-winning author, is a standalone novella in his Birthright Universe setting of far future science fiction, this tale starring aliens archaeologists visiting Earth long after humanity and its galactic Empire are gone, and making discoveries which tell them things about various eras of the long-vanished world, from the artifacts they find, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Phoenix Pick Press.

This is their featured Free Book of the Month for September, and was originally published as a chapbook in 1994 by Pulphouse Publishing's Axolotl Press imprint and also appeared in the October-November issue of the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. It won a plethora of awards, placing first for not only the Hugo and Nebula for best novella, but also the HOMer and SF Chronicle, and made 2nd on the Locus Awards list in that category as well, alongside several international nods.

Currently free through the month of September directly @ the publisher's dedicated promo page (DRM-free ePub & Mobi bundle available worldwide; follow the instructions on the webpage to reset the price in the cart to $0.00)

The tie-in deal for this is pretty nice, at 3 additional novellas for just $2.50: another Hugo/Nebula joint nominee starring Teddy Roosevelt, and two additional backlist tales of reasonably substantial length. They've previously been offered as tie-in titles before, so you, too, may already have them from a previous purchase.

Description
In the far future, eons after the demise of Humanity and its far-flung galactic empire, a group of alien archeologists visits Earth to uncover the secret of the dead race’s initial overwhelming success and its ultimate death.

Digging through layers of archeological strata at Olduvai Gorge, they discover seven unique artifacts, each related to a different era of humanity’s history and each telling a unique story about humankind’s strengths and weaknesses. But are they prepared for their final discovery, which will change their worlds forever?

Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge is one of the most celebrated novellas ever written. It not only won both the Hugo and Nebula, but also the HOMer award and the SF Chronicle Poll and was a nominee for the Locus Award and the Sturgeon Award. It was also nominated for a number of international awards, winning the Ignotus and the Universitat Polytechnica Awards in Spain, the Prix Ozone Award in France and the Futura Award in Croatia.

[Dr. Drib]

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[ATDrake]

Just a reminder that today will probably be the last day to pick up the freebie and/or purchase the tie-in deal, if you're interested.