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Your 12 Best Links of 2019 From Andy Zach

Your 12 Best Links of 2019 from me, author Andy Zach are right here. What have you missed? Perhaps there’s a laugh or two for you or some amazing bit of technology you didn’t know about. The journey through time begins now!

January 2019 – My Favorite Video of 2019

This nostalgic memory from my childhood is much funnier now that I’m an adult.

How many of these famous cameo appearances can you identify? Identify all and win a book!

I can just hear some of you Millenials saying, “Ok, Boomer.” I am a Baby Boomer, so I can’t deny it.

February 2019 – A Great One Liner

Need I say the prequel to my book Paranormal Privateers is set in the Caribbean? Need I say this prequel is in my new book, Oops! Tales of the Zombie Turkey Apocalypse?

March 2019 – A Great Movie Trailer

Terry Pratchett is one of my inspirations. I re-read The Color of Magic, his first book in his Disc World series this year and it’s better than I remembered. This movie adaptation is great. Be sure to see it. Watch the trail above, if you doubt me.

Nine more links to go in Your 12 Best Links of 2019!

April 2019 – My Favorite ComicCon of 2019

Your 12 Best Links of 2019
Andy Zach at PeoriaCon. Click to read all about it.

At PeoriaCon I read the first page of Zombie Turkeys dozens of times while acting it out with my zombie turkey puppet. The Peoria Journal Star caught me in the act right there in Peoria, a mile from my home!

Click on the blog post to hear me on video!

May 2019 – The Fifth of Your 12 Best Links

Seriously, how can ‘spider butts’ not make the highlights list?

June 2019 – The Sixth of Your 12 Best Links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=a1Om-662nUg&feature=emb_logo
Which Star Wars Movie is This?

I have to include this blog post, of four future science fiction story ideas. Which one do you like the best?

That’s all for now! I’ll post the other six items tomorrow.

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5 Weird Things I’ve Never Shared With You

5 Weird Things I’ve Never Shared With You in the whole three years I’ve been writing this blog. How can I be sure? I’ve just learned about them in the past month.

But first, let’s have this:

I wasn’t planning to count this as one weird thing since it’s satire, but I wanted to start with something funny.

Okay, this next item begins the weirdness:

This triggered so many things in my mind: first, the cloaking field from Star Trek.

The Enterprise decloaking

Next, Harry Potter’s cloak of invisibility:

https://giphy.com/gifs/harry-potter-magic-J5lxA8X7kisRG
Harry Potter getting his invisibility on

But the oldest example is below:

The Invisible Man – “I’ll show you!”

On we go to the next weird thing.

Your Second Weird Thing of 5 Weird Things

How can I not have the phrase ‘intelligent slime mold’ in my blog post? You may ask, ‘How can a slime mold be intelligent?” They can efficiently solve the famous ‘Travelling Salesman’ problem. You haven’t heard of that? Check out the following article:

5 Weird Things
The Travelling Salesman Problem – click the image for more

Earlier in my life, I worked in operations research and this problem was difficult to solve by computer. How difficult? It belongs to a class of problems called ‘NP hard problems’. That means the difficulty goes up as a factorial (1*2*3 = 3 factorial) of the number of cities.

You can solve this by brute computing force, but the slime mold does it without brains! That’s weird.

Your Third Weird Thing

But first, a book break!

I am an author, so I love books. Tell me your favorite and I’ll send you a free short story.

On to our next weird thing! How about a robot that does gymnastics? It also weighs about four hundred pounds.

If this robot isn’t grist for a science fiction story, then I’ve never read SciFi before!

The Penultimate Weird Thing

I love vocabulary for its own sake, ever since I read the ‘Abecedarian Book’ when I was twelve. Penultimate is one of those weird words you read, but may not know the meaning. Look it up.

I read this book when I was 12.

Your new weird thing begins here.

Do you believe this?

You know it’s weird when you can’t believe it (I didn’t) and yet it’s true.

The Last Weird Thing of 5 Weird Things – And Free Stuff

Who doesn’t like dragons?

Finally, I bid you adieu!

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Andy Zach at Archon in St. Louis

PS: I forgot to tell you where you can get free stuff.

First, you can get 31 free books here:

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Click image to get 31 free books

Then, you can get my comic paranormal animal book, Zombie Turkeys here:

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Click to get your free copy
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5 Favorite Links from author Andy Zach

5 Favorite Links from author Andy Zach. You’ll laugh, think, and enjoy these science, writing, fantasy, and comic links. Chuckles guaranteed.

Let’s start out with this one:

Art by Luca Oleastri. He posted this on the SciFi Roundtable, where I spend time on Facebook. Stop by and say hi to me and many fine science siction and fantasy authors. We also have artists and editors and readers hanging out there.

I mentioned I had flying saucers in my book Paranormal Privateers. Here’s proof:

5 Favorite Links
Chapter 9 Icon

5 Favorite Links – What’s Next?

I’ve followed Elon Must and SpaceX closely. I feel I’m reliving my childhood love of space exploration. Check out this video.

What do you think of private space exploration? Do you track SpaceX or one of the other private space firms? Reply and tell me. I’ll give a free short story to each person who comments or emails me.

You Also Get This Favorite Link

I’m so pleased he succeeded! This fact may surpise you: The flight only took twenty minutes to go twenty-two miles; but he had to land in the middle of the channel to refuel. Also, he failed the first time he tried because the hoverboard missed the refueling ship. and he fell into the sea.

Naturally, I have a hoverboard in Paranormal Privateers. Check it out

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Hoverboard icon from Paranormal Privateers
The new cover

Behold Your Bonus Book Blurb

What’s this book about?

Zombies charge first, ask questions later.

Middle-aged, overweight, and undead, Diane Newby leads the paranormal privateers against criminals and corruption. Sailing to trouble spots too sensitive for the US government, with zombie strength and regeneration they beat bullies into submission. Aided by zombie turkeys, corgis, and bulls, vicious criminal geniuses fall before them. If Diane gets overwhelmed her lovely zombie bodyguards and romantic zombie husband come to the rescue.

Out of the blue, new foes appear. Or are they friends? Or both? The frenemies neutralize zombies and orchestrate world peace. They disrupt the economy and produce fabulous wealth. Even the greatest criminals and governments can’t stop them from dominating the world.

Can humanity afford the price of peace? All must surrender freedom to a not-so-benign dictatorship. Diane and the paranormal privateers must do the unthinkable to save humanity. But is it enough?

In an explosive and unconventional ending to Andy Zach’s Life After Life Chronicles, you will learn what happens when the paranormal privateers meet the world’s greatest fear. And you will laugh all the way.

For Your Viewing Pleasure, Enjoy this Next Link

I kind of like a 1,000 degree rocket-powered knife. I want to write a story about it. How about you? Should I write the story?

5 Favorite Links – Your Final Link

Hold on to your seats as you view this video.

That is a large eye of a large sea creature. You can see the whole thing in this video from the ocean bottom.

You Read to the End? Enjoy Some Free Books

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The 34 free books include my first one, Zombie Turkeys. Or, you can go straight here:

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