Re-Energized (pronounce that "ree" or "ray" -- it works both ways)
Edward M. Lerner
Hello, Edward M. Lerner reader!
I know -- it's been awhile since I've sent out news. Today I have a lot. In
this note:
* RE-ENERGIZED
* SLIGHTLY LARGER SMALL MIRACLES
* FOOLS' EXPERIMENTS
* THE STORY BEHIND THE BOOK
=== RE-ENERGIZED ===
It's been too long coming -- publishers march to their own drummers -- but today
my 2012 novel ENERGIZED was finally reissued as a mass-market paperback (and in
sync, prices have dropped on the various ebook editions).
About ENERGIZED ...
A miscalculation has tainted the world's major oil fields with radioactivity
and plunged the Middle East into chaos. The few countries still able to export
oil and natural gas -- Russia chief among them -- have a stranglehold on the
global economy.
Then, from the darkness of space, comes Phoebe. Rather than divert the massive
asteroid, America captures it into Earth orbit to mine it for materials with
which to build enormous solar-power satellites. Cheaply produced in orbit and
able to beam vast amounts of power to the ground, these powersats offer America
its last, best hope of avoiding servitude and economic ruin.
But special interests, from technophobes to eco-extremists to radio
astronomers, want to stop the project. And the remaining petro powers will do *anything*
to protect their dominance of world affairs.
NASA engineer Marcus Judson is determined to make the powersat demonstration
project a success -- even though nothing in his job description mentions combating
an international cabal ... or going into space to do it.
Middle East chaos and Russian power plays: that sounds all too close to the
current state of world affairs. But ENERGIZED offers a way out of the energy box
in which we find ourselves ...
For more about ENERGIZED, including some of the latest great reviews, check out
my blog post at:
http://blog.edwardmlerner.com/2014/09/re-energized.html
ENERGIZED: now in mass-market paperback. Still available in hardback, for
Kindle, Nook, and iPhone/iPad, and in several audio formats. Check with your
favorite online or brick-and-mortar bookseller.
=== SLIGHTLY LARGER SMALL MIRACLES ===
ENERGIZED is merely my most recent technothriller. SMALL MIRACLES, my 2009
medical-nanotech thriller (2010 in mass-market paperback), had, alas, gone out
of print (and electrons). I'm delighted to announce that on or about October 7th publisher
Arc Manor will reissue SMALL MIRACLES in trade paperback and ebook formats.
(Puzzling over this section's subject line? Trade paperbacks are physically larger
than mass-market paperbacks. Think pages sized like a hardback between cardboard
covers like a traditional paperback. But the miracles between those covers remain
tiny indeed: medical nanobots no larger than a single blood corpuscle -- though
*much* more versatile. And, this being a technothriller, the tiny gadgets come with
unanticipated consequences ...)
For more about SMALL MIRACLES, including a few of the many great reviews, check
out my 2010 blog post at:
http://blog.edwardmlerner.com/2010/08/real-nanotech-real-medicine-and-zombies.html.
The new print edition, ebook editions, and audio editions will all be available
from your favorite online bookseller.
=== FOOLS' EXPERIMENTS ===
We are not alone, and it's our own damn fault ....
FOOLS' EXPERIMENTS, my 2008 novel (2009 in mass-market paperback), has also gone
out of print and electrons. Arc Manor will likewise soon be reissuing it --
sorry, I don't yet have a release date to share -- in trade paperback and all major
ebook formats.
FOOLS' EXPERIMENTS is a tale of artificial life, artificial intelligence, and (this
novel, too, being a technothriller) unanticipated consequences.
For more about FOOLS' EXPERIMENTS, including a few of its many outstanding
reviews, check out my 2009 blog post at:
http://blog.edwardmlerner.com/2009/09/fools-experiments-redux.html.
=== THE STORY BEHIND THE BOOK ===
Ever wonder how authors, especially genre authors, come up with their stories?
Here's your chance to find inspiration *and* support a worthy cause. Last
April, the fine folks at genre website upcoming4.me released their second
anthology of authors’ essays about their books, their series, and/or the craft
of writing speculative fiction.
Thirty-plus authors contributed essays to the project; all proceeds from sales
of the ebook and the print editions are donated to Epilepsy Action (https://www.epilepsy.org.uk/).
My contribution to the anthology was "Fate of
Worlds -- Forty-two years in the making." That essay gives the back
story of the entire Fleet of Worlds series.
For more about this excellent project, see http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/story-behind-the-book-volume-2-essays-on-writing-speculative-fiction-out-now.
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And that's it.
- Ed
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Edward M. Lerner
edwardmlerner.com
blog.edwardmlerner.com