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You’ll Love These Superheroes from my second series

Jeremy Gentle

You’ll Love These Superheroes – who are they? In order of their appearance:

Jeremy Gentle

Jeremy Gentle
Jeremy, seventh grade superhero

Jeremy’s a 12-year-old genius in 7th grade. Too bad he’s stuck in a disabled class with cerebral palsy and no girl would ever look at his skinny, twisted body. But he has a cool lab in his basement where he experiments with 25,000 volt surge of electricity–leading to his superpower.

His shares his story with his best friend, Dan Elanga.

Love These Superheroes – Dan Elanga

Love These Superheroes
Dan Elanga, the second Secret Super

Dan’s parents sold their business in Cameroon to come to America to give their blind son a better chance. Dan pestered Jeremy until he told him about his experiment–and Dan tried it. And got a different superpower.

Of course, the boys tried to hide their superpowers. But they failed to consider their fellow student–

Kayla Verdera – the smallest superhero

Kayla Verdera - Love These Superheroes
Kayla Verdera

Kayla’s a genius like Jeremy, but she’s not even five feet tall. She used to be on the cheerleading squad as the topmost girl–until she got spinal meningitis. Now she has to use a walker, and a voice app to talk. Plus she drools. In one swoop she fell from one of the in crowd to the out crowd, the disabled kids.

But she notices Jeremy and Dan hiding something and talking together, so she gets her friend Aubrey to ask them. They invite her over to Jeremy’s house. And she gets a completely different superpower.

Now her best friend has to go to Jeremy’s next. she’s–

Aubrey Wilcosky – The Talkingest Superhero

Love These Superheroes - Aubrey Wilcosky
Aubrey, super powered heroine.

With Aubrey, she talks first and thinks later. She’s as big as Dan and was a star on the softball team–until she lost her legs in a car accident. Undaunted, she plowed on in borrowed prosthetics, while struggling in school. Kayla helped her study and they became best friends. Now she gets Jeremy’s experimental ‘treatment’ and receives a unique superpowered gift.

So the four friends become superheroes. What next? Find out in:

Also available in print, and ebook. But wait to buy the ebook–it goes on sale for .99 on May 10th!

Love These Superheroes – in Their Next Book

I said this was a series. I also said Secret Supers goes on sale on Monday May 10th. So does the Villain’s Vacation ebook. Get it here, on May 10th, for .99.

What happens in Villain’s Vacation? The Secret Supers go to a coaster park for summer vacation. Too bad their worst enemy is also there–and out for revenge.

Got questions? Ask me, Andy Zach by clicking here.

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Your Best Internet Science and Science Fiction and Fantasy

Your Best Science

Your Best Internet Science and Science Fiction and Fantasy – what do I mean by that?

I’ve read through the internet this January and these are the best science articles, science fiction, and fantasy books I’ve found. Plus my usual quirkiness and unpredictability.

Let’s begin now

Your Best Internet Science Articles

Let’s begin with AI combined with jet fighters.

AI Top Gun?

Posted by Andy Zach on Thursday, January 28, 2021

What can top an AI Top Gun? How about a science story that could come out of Star Trek or Star Wars?

Posted by Andy Zach on Saturday, January 23, 2021

Your Best Science Fiction

Here’s the first science fiction book I read this year and my review. I recommend this series.

Your Best Internet Science
Macedonian Hazard cover

This is the second book in this alternate history series, where a large ocean liner and its refueling tender have both gone back to 320 BCE. They arrive in the middle of Alexander the Great’s generals fighting over his empire.

The ship goes from port to port, officially neutral and promoting peace. However, they have aligned themselves with Alexander’s heir Philip and his mother Euyadice. Naturally, aside from advancing technology to the industrial revolution, the modern ship is smack in the middle of Grecian politics.

There are murders and battles, as the iron age civilization modernizes to the steam age within years. Eric Flint and his co-authors, Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett keep the plot moving and the reader engaged with colorful characters from the 21st century and the 4th BCE.

Review by Andy Zach on Goodreads
How many of these fictional starships do you recognize in this video? Let me know and I’ll give you a free copy of Zombie Turkeys, my comical zombie apocalypse book.
Fictional Starhip Size Comparison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTPwbVqU6lc&feature=share

Next, you have a science fiction, steampunk, time-traveling trilogy I’m planning. I’m basing it upon the life of Nicola Tesla. Give me some encouragement, because I’m stuck right now. I can’t figure out how to work with Nicola or with time traveling. Can you?

I am planning a trilogy about Tesla time-traveling back in time. I'll use this interview as source material.

Posted by Andy Zach on Friday, January 29, 2021

Coming up is the best book trailer I’ve seen. I’ve never made a trailer for one of my books, but now I’ll seriously consider it.

Your Best Fantasy Books Are Next

I have to include this new short story anthology. Two of my short stories are in it. Actually, only one. The other was written by my daughter.

I collaborated on this horror short story anthology. Thanks for bringing this together, Trubbshore Gloria!

Posted by Andy Zach on Thursday, January 28, 2021

Then there’s this fantasy book. It’s the best fantasy book you’ve never heard of.

The cover of ‘The Throme of the Erril of Sherill’

I’m wildly biased in favor of Patricia McKillip. I’ve loved every book she’s written in her 40-year career. Like most of her books, ‘The Throme of the Erril of Sherill is full of beautiful language and imagery. Here are her opening two sentences:

“The Erril of Sherill wrote a Throme. It was a deep Throme, and a dark, haunting, lovely Throme, a wild, special, sweet Throme made of the treasure of words in his deep heart.”

But beyond the beautiful language is a complex, fairy-tale type plot with many twists, full of laughter and surprises.

If you love fantasy, read this book.

Review by Andy Zach on Goodreads

Let’s close this blog post with an ambiguous video. Is it science fiction? Or science fact?

Some science issues with this SF short. Can you find them?

Posted by Andy Zach on Friday, January 22, 2021
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2021 Reviews and New Book Plans from Andy Zach

Life After Life Chronicles March Fourth Fun Videos

2021 Reviews start right here for you!

I just finished and reviewed this book. Page-turning alternate history will please readers Reviewed in the United…

Posted by Andy Zach on Wednesday, January 13, 2021

If you don’t want to click over to Goodreads, then just read here:

This is the second book in this alternate history series, where a large ocean liner and its refueling tender have both gone back in time to 320 BCE. They arrive in the middle of Alexander the Great’s generals fighting over his empire.

The ship goes from port to port, officially neutral and promoting peace. However, they have aligned themselves with Alexander’s heir Philip and his mother Eurydice.

Naturally, aside from advancing technology to the industrial revolution, the modern ship is smack in the middle of Grecian politics. There are murders and battles, as the iron age civilization modernizes to the steam age within years.

Eric Flint and his co-authors, Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett keep the plot moving and the reader engaged with colorful characters from the 21st century and the 4th BCE.

Andy Zach on Amazon

Let me know if you plan to read The Macedonian Hazard or if you’ve already read the first book The Alexander Inheritance . I’ll send you a copy of Zombie Turkeys.

2021 Reviews
Audiobook cover – click to listen.

2021 Reviews – My First of 2021

My Undead Mother-in-law

4.0 out of 5 stars 

Outlandish Fun

Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2021

Andy Zach continues his unrelenting attack on the horror/zombie genre with outlandish humor. What will society do with the new human zombies after the havoc caused by The Turkey Zombies?!? That was a rhetorical question…so just laugh! ;-

JH & DDDH
SciFi Story Fuel My Undead Mother-in-law
My Undead Mother-in-law. Click to get yours.

Finally, My Top Secret Book Plans, Revealed for You Right Here

My Life After Life Chronicles gets a new volume, Zombie Detective. Here’s a secret blog post giving you the first page.

I plan to publish Zombie Detectives in May 2021 in both paperback and ebook. If you want to be the first to know, subscribe to my newsletter here. You’ll also get all my free audiobooks.

What’s next in 2021? I plan to make Zombie Detectives an audiobook. That’ll start in June and finish by September.

Also coming along is my audiobook version of Villain’s Vacation, the second of my Secret Supers series. The audiobook may not be done, but the cover is:

What else is going on? I plan to attend PeoriaCon in October 2021, and as many book conventions as possible. I miss seeing you!