MEGA Announcement … redux

[Edward M Lerner]

Hello, Edward M. Lerner reader,

Time flies! It's been a year and a half since Ed's last (admittedly voluminous) newsletter. It’s not that he's been slacking off -- which you'll see as you read on.

Basically, Ed's recent focus has been on getting several older books -- whether gone out of print or "merely" neglected by the original publisher -- back into print and electrons.  And ... success! Herewith teasers about everything republished in 2024 or 2025 (with each title's original publication date in parentheses)(and an Amazon link for more info):

• Fools' Experiments (2008): "When the artificial intelligences … go maverick, they turn out to be the true weapons of mass destruction. A fast, fun read." -- Sci Fi Weekly
• Small Miracles (2009): "Edward M. Lerner's Small Miracles is a splendid combination of hard SF and a technothriller about nanotechnology gone really, really wrong." -- Eric Flint, New York Times bestselling author of the Ring of Fire series
• Energized (2012): "A taut near-future thriller about an energy-starved Earth held hostage by a power-mad international cartel ... Lerner’s vision of the future is both topical and possible in this crisp, fast-paced hard SF adventure." -- Publishers Weekly
• Dark Secret (2016): "Dark Secret is a unique tale of catastrophe and survival on multiple levels, gripping and harrowing yet ultimately inspiring. Lerner shows what it might really be like to be forced from an out-of-control frying pan into a far worse fire, and how humanity might endure even if what the refugees bring with them is worse than what they find." --Stanley Schmidt, author of Argonaut
• Trope-ing the Light Fantastic: The Science Behind the Fiction (2018): "Edward M. Lerner has produced the best-ever guide to putting the science in science fiction, and he's done it with clarity, wit, and panache." -- Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Quantum Night
• Muses & Musings: A Science Fiction Collection (2019): "He is science fiction down to the bone, but he very often takes the 'serious' stuff not so seriously. Or he does, but he still squeezes a modicum of wit and whimsy into his subjects. He can catch a salient point in a couple of pages or explore a well-trodden road like AI with new insight." – Galaxy's Edge

But wait … there’s more! Over his (more or less) three decades as a writer, Ed has accumulated a lot in the way of outlines, research notes, correspondence, drafts, etc. of what became his twenty solo books (and many more shorter works). All that being of potential interest to literary scholars, Ed gathered up and donated it all to the Special Collections & Archives Department of the University Libraries at Northern Illinois University (see "A Milestone"). Ed and collaborator/buddy Larry Niven donated the same sorts of materials covering their five-book Fleet of Worlds series to the archive (see "Calling all Niven (and Lerner) scholars". Passed along just in case you ever find yourself in DeKalb, Illinois, with time on your hands.

While all this hasn’t left a ton time for new writing, Ed has done the occasional short story and novelette since his last novel (Life and Death on Mars, December 2023) came out. So maybe there’ll be another collection sometime downstream.

Too many choices?

So many books and too little time? We feel your pain. Although the many options above may present a quandary, we''ll remind you of one more choice. That would be Ed's (mostly) career-spanning collection, The Best of Edward M. Lerner (2022).

Final thought

If you read, and like, any of Ed's books (or any other book, by any author!) consider posting a review on Amazon, Goodreads, Librarything, or the review venue of your choice. They all help.

And that (phew!) is that. We don't expect any more newsletters for a while.