Of Foreclosures, Frontiers, and Fate

[Edward M. Lerner]

Hello, Edward M. Lerner reader!

In this note:

* A TIME FORECLOSED
* FRONTIERS: AN AWARDING EXPERIENCE
* FATE OF WORLDS: NOW IN PAPERBACK

=== A TIME FORECLOSED ===

These newsletters most often announce book releases, but I also write
at shorter length, most often for magazines. Magazine stories, alas,
quickly disappear from view. But in an era of ebooks and print-on-
demand publishing, that’s changing. Many authors -- and I’m now among
them -- are experimenting with standalone stories.

About A Time Foreclosed …

Where are all the time travelers? After all, if it is possible to move
between past and future, shouldn't someone from somewhen in all the
infinite reaches of the future have visited by now? The good news is,
there are answers to those questions. But what about the bad news ...?

Previously published in Analog as "Time Out," this mind-bending
novella will keep you guessing until the final page. The mini-book
also includes the bonus time-travel short story "Grandpa?"—one of my
most popular tales (and the basis of a great short film).

While I experiment with this new format, the publisher is
experimenting -- for a short time, anyway -- with the price. If you've
ever been curious about my short fiction it's hard to beat a 99-cent
ebook.

For more on the topic, check out my blog post:

http://blog.edwardmlerner.com/2013/06/a-time-foreclosed.html

Available, even as I type, for Kindle. Coming Real Soon Now as a
printed chapbook and in additional ebook formats.

=== FRONTIERS: AN AWARDING EXPERIENCE ===

Most of my shorter works are (as above) fiction, but -- as befits a
physicist and computer engineer with thirty years experience in IT and
aerospace -- I also write science and technology articles.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact is the premier (the oldest and the
largest in circulation) magazine in the genre. In the Analog Readers
Poll for 2011, I came in second place -- tied with myself! -- for best
fact article of the year. Those runner-up pieces were "Lost in Space?
Follow the Money" (about the retirement of the space-shuttle fleet and
the dawning era of commercialized spaceflight) and "Say What?
Ruminations About Language, Communications, and Science Fiction" (a
title that explains itself).

For 2012, my "Faster Than a Speeding Photon: The Why, Where, and
(Perhaps the) How of Faster-Than-Light Technology" article took first
place in the annual readers poll. I suspect the scope of that article
is pretty self-evident, too.

If you're interested in popularized science and tech writing, six of
my Analog articles, including "Faster Than a Speeding Photon" (and
more than a dozen related short stories) are collected in Frontiers of
Space, Time and Thought: Essays and Stories on The Big Questions.

For more about that collection and how it came about, see last year's
blog post:

http://blog.edwardmlerner.com/2012/04/frontiers-of-space-time-and-thought.html

Available in trade paperback and most ebook formats.

=== FATE OF WORLDS: NOW IN PAPERBACK ===

Meanwhile, the concluding book of the Fleet of Worlds series *and* the
Ringworld series will be re-released July 2nd as a mass-market
paperback. (Yes, that’s *two* epic series.) If you've enjoyed the
earlier books in paperback format, now you can complete your set.

Leading review website SF Site called Fate of Worlds (in collaboration
with Larry Niven) "A single triumphant work of vivid imagination and
colorful adventure, fraught with enough action, intrigue, surprises
and human drama to satisfy any SF fan."

Here’s what I blogged about Fate when the first edition came out:

http://blog.edwardmlerner.com/2012/08/there-is-no-fate-of-worlds-but-what-we.html

Paperback to be released July 2nd / available immediately for preorder
Available now in hardback, ebook, and audio formats

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And that’s it.

- Ed

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Edward M. Lerner
edwardmlerner.com
blog.edwardmlerner.com