Your July Science Stories were personally curated by me, Author Andy Zach. I read science every day for ideas for my science fiction. If you love science, read on!
Let’s start with military SciFi that almost happened:
Here we have a plan for a sub-orbital rocket that could land 1200 Marines–from the 60s!
Now let’s switch to some steampunk SciFi that ISN’T fiction.
This should appeal to your artistic senses–or your arachnophobia. Let me know which by clicking here. As usual, I’ll give a free ebook for each comment or response.
Zombie Turkeys is just one of the six free audiobooks I offer to my subscribers.
Your July Science Stories Continue: You Get Five Stories for One Click
Five stories in one article. Enjoy.
Which one did you like the best? The nano assembly line, the electrode implanted to heal broken bones, or the smart foam that could help robots sense us approaching? Let me know.
Do you want to go to outer space? Follow This Pioneer
Now some may quibble Richard Branson (and soon Jeff Bezos) only got to the edge of space in a sub-orbital flight. Weightlessness and a vacuum above our atmosphere is close enough for me.
But what do you require to be called a trip to space? An orbit around the earth? Landing on the moon? What are your standards? You can leave a comment or email me at [email protected]Or directly contact me.
Even the Toughest Critics Agree This Following Video is Outer Space
Cover of The Stars Must Wait Click to read full review
Keith Laumer, in one of his last books, describes a dystopian United States from the perspective of Terrance Jackson, an astronaut awoken from suspended animation after eighty years.
It’s a delicious premise. Just as the spaceship was to launch a colonization trip to Callisto, the launch was aborted with one second to go. There are about a dozen crew members aboard: a full crew and a full backup crew.
All the crew is suspended, but they awake at different times by the computer program. Meanwhile, …more
Review of My Undead Mother-in-law. Click to read review and listen to excerpt
Outlandish Fun
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! 😉
Wow! I think my originality meter overflowed! This short story collection includes fantasy and science fiction. Its settings go from post-apocalyptic Mars to medieval worlds where magic reigns. There’s humor and horror, sex and violence, victories and defeats, villains and heroes. Oh, and time-travel too.
Further, many of the stories are set in the same universe and cross-reference each other. At times, they feel like chapters from the same book.
I recommend this book for anyone who enjoys originality and creative use of medieval dialect as well as invented alien languages.
I’m embarrassed to say this, but I’m biased here; two of my short stories are this book. So you can disregard this review, even though it’s only about the other short stories.
The Last Best Book Reviews
Doctor Doolittle’s Zoo
Hugh Lofting continues his imaginative exploration of the things the good Doctor Doolittle can do through talking to animals. This time it’s a post office run by them. In the fictional West African country of Fantippo.
As usual, the Doctor spends whatever money he gets on animals and people in need. As usual, his animal friends work together to get him more money. Hugh Lofting surprises us with an imaginative riff within his story: how about a series of short stories by animals for an animal magazine?
This was a fun listen! Sam Melvin is a reporter for a small newspaper in a small town. When people start being attacked by turkeys, Sam is on the job! As the first one to report the outbreak of a disease turning the turkeys into zombies, Sam is busy trying to find the flock and let the world know what is happening.
The story follows numerous attacks by the hoard of turkeys and the various ways that people try to fight them off. There is a little romance along the way for a few couples, even in the face of possible death. Add in the backstory of online news and entrepreneurship, a football game turned zombie fight and a great white shark and you have some great scenes!
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First, Don’t Miss Out on the Cover Reveal on July 31st
This blog tour covers all four books in my Life After Life Chronicles.
Your first jolt comes with Zombie Turkeys. Here’ part of the review for Dab of Darkness blog:
What a deliciously silly book! If you love zombies and comedy, this zombiedy story is for you. The whole premise of zombie turkeys is just so ludicrous it makes the whole tale funny, no matter how seriously the characters take their roles. Story is suitable for the whole family. Very little blood & guts, no swearing, sweet, innocent romance.
I really enjoyed the main characters, Sam and Lisa, who work for a small newspaper in Illinois. Sam is out for the real story, thoroughly enjoying his investigative reporting. Lisa runs the little newspaper with efficiency and soon she has the entire nation demanding their news reports. Zombie turkeys are a bad problem, for sure, but they have launched this small newspaper right into the big leagues.
Once again we get to visit the lives of the fantastically droll Sam and Lisa as they adjust to the life after the zombie apocalypse starts settling down. Things aren’t going so well for them as there is only so much you can report on zombie turkeys, cows, squirrels and chickens. But never fear – something interesting is just around the corner for you. At the end of the first book (SPOILER ALERT IF YOU HAVEN’T LISTENED TO IT)
Zombies! But it’s worse than that – there’s zombie turkeys, zombie corgis, zombie chipmunks, and even zombie mother-in-laws! Haha! I’ve really enjoyed this series, though Book 1 has been my favorite. . .
This is a great book to start with if you haven’t tried any Andy Zach book before. It contains stories from both his Life After Life zombie comedy series and his superhero story Super Secrets. It also shows you Zach’s sense of humor (plus there’s one little horror story that isn’t overly gruesome). This book is great for both kids and adults and works just fine on it’s own.
