Science Fiction Story Fuel from Andy Zach author of Zombie Turkeys

What is Science Fiction Story Fuel? The fuel is science. I read science and technology all the time. I’ve loved science and technology since elementary school. In this blog post, I share my Science Fiction Story Fuel articles from the last couple of weeks. Let’s begin with:

I grew up reading Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov. Did you know Asimov wrote the Lucky Starr series of YA novels?

The video shows the moon in great detail, rather like Heinlein’s book, Have Spacesuit, Will Travel, which I read in 2nd or 3rd grade.

Heinlein’s cover art wasn’t too far from the final lunar excursion suit:

The Next Science Fiction Story Fuel Link

Aside from the cool artistry, the facts behind the story are great: a rogue planet, 12.5 times larger than Jupiter, wandering between the stars. A rogue planet is one that doesn’t orbit a sun. A gaseous planet that large is the largest it can be and still be called a planet. At thirteen times the size of Jupiter, the gravitic pressure is great enough to begin fusion. Then the planet becomes a star, a brown dwarf, barely glowing.

Then we have this:

The commercialization of space travel is near and dear to my heart. Due to the influence of the libertarian Heinlein, I’ve always felt businesses had to get into space for the technology to really “take off”. Now it’s happening and we may see substantial progress over the next twenty years.

The last bit of science fiction story fuel is:

Every hard science fiction novel should push the current technology into the future. Each author has had good predictions:

Heinlein: waldos, robotic hands; social chaos beginning in the 90s; recreational space travel; commercialization of space technology.

Arthur C. Clarke: geosynchronous satellites; a space station docking with earth launched rockets

Isaac Asimov: statistics used to predict the future; interstellar spacecraft

What are your predictions for the future? If any come to pass, I’ll give you a free book! Reply to the blog below, or email me here.

Second, you can enter my monthly drawing for a free book here.

Third, can simply buy one directly from me, or from Amazon.

New Zombie Book Review and More Hot News from the Internet

“Where’s my New Zombie Book Review ?” you ask. Right here! Author Wes Britton reviewed Paranormal Privateers, as he has Zombie Turkeys and My Undead Mother-in-law. Dr. Britton does another bang up job!

Without further ado, the New Zombie Book Review is next.

Wesley Britton’s Blog

August 6, 2018

Book Review: Paranormal Privateers: The Adventures of the Undead (Life After Life Volume 3) by Andy Zach

Paranormal Privateers: The Adventures of the Undead (Life After Life Volume 3) Andy Zach
Publisher: Jule Inc.; 1 edition (May 5, 2018)
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
ASIN: B07CJP8FYP
https://www.amazon.com/Paranormal-Pri…Reviewed by Dr. Wesley Britton

Paranormal Privateers is my third go-around with author Andy Zack. First, I read his bizarre Zombie Turkeys (How an Unknown Blogger Fought Unkillable Turkeys) (2016). Next came My Undead Mother-In-Law (The Family Zombie with Anger Management Issues) (2017). As the titles suggest, Zack’s world of zombie animals and people aren’t meant to terrify readers. Instead, Zack is out to amuse and entertain us with the most unusual situations and scenes most of us will ever experience on the printed page.

Paranormal Privateers continues the weirdness with a handful of returning characters and the type of zombies few of us would want to kill, destroy, or dismember. They’re, for the most part, super-heroes with superior strength, resistance to diseases like cancer, and the ability to regenerate limbs and other body parts. These zombies don’t want to lose these abilities so they carry around vials of infected blood to make sure they have the means to become a zombie again in case somebody cures them.

This time around, a crew of zombies has a presidential commission and a super-yacht to take on missions the U.S. Military can’t. Their leader is the impatient Diane Newby, the “Undead Mother-in-Law” of the previous volume. She fiercely leads her comrades as they battle Somali pirates, Crimean human slavers, and London terrorists in Harrods department store with the aid of huge zombie bulls. (Talk about a bull in a china shop!)

New Zombie Book Review – Second Part

Then, a more serious scenario pulls together three storylines as the zombie team infiltrates a North Korean nuclear facility. One of these storylines centers on a North Korean defector who first becomes a zombie, then a Christian, and then he does his best to spread both in a prison camp.

Along the way, the heroic zombies and their human allies must suffer with the schemes of Sid Boffin, a 120-year-old criminal genius who wants to rule the earth and destroy all zombies with viruses carried on fly feet. Despite his efforts, Diane and her group fight on even after losing their zombie strength and regenerative abilities.

And then . . . we get an alien spaceship bringing powerful aliens to earth. It’s almost a completely different book from that point forward, beginning about 2/3 of the way in Paranormal Privateers.

All three volumes of the “Life After Life” series so far are fast-paced romps with minimal character development full of quirky humor and off-the-wall satire. While not billed as YA novels, I see no reason why young adults wouldn’t especially enjoy these yarns. There’s much about blogging, Skype, and other contemporary matters throughout all the adventures. How about a Kickstarter campaign to fund a cure for the anti-zombie virus? Political correctness? Say “paranormal people,” not “zombies.”

No reader needs to read the previous books to jump into the action, although it wouldn’t hurt to read My Undead Mother-in-Law first to get some character background. But all you need to get into the quirky world of Andy Zack is to have a healthy sense of humor and the willingness to travel to a world that never was and never will be.

This review first appeared at BookPleasures.com on Aug. 6, 2018.

Your Hot Internet News from Andy Zach

I cruise the whole internet every day so you don’t have to! Here’s your daily fun.

I love hard science fiction! That’s sci-fi that doesn’t violate any known physical laws. Generally, it extrapolates from current, known technology. Many of the great SF writers were hard science fiction masters. What do you think? Let me know the in the comments, or send me a personal reply here. Best response gets a free ebook!

I grew up in the 60s during the Space Race between the US and the USSR. I read Heinlein, Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke throughout grade school and I’m tickled to see some of the predictions coming to pass, such as commercial space flight.

From science fiction, we go to fantasy. How would you like to have scales?

I might get a set to endure harsh reviews!

Now this next story bridges the gap between science and fantasy:

Naturally, turkeys feature prominently in my book Zombie Turkeys. In that book, you’ll find both wild and domestic turkeys going zombie. This video gives you the actual science that wild turkeys are tougher than domestic ones.

Your Chance to Create a New Zombie Book Review

By that, I mean you can review my books for fun and profit. Fun, because that’s the way they’re written. Profit, because if you promise to review one, I’ll send you an ebook!

To help you in reviewing books, consider this article on character-driven versus plot driven books:

Do you like books that focus more on character development or books that focus on action? Or, like me, do you want both? Please tell me in the comments, or send me nasty emails!

Finally, let’s finish as we began, with hard science fiction:

Next question, after reading the predictions above, is, do you agree? What do you think will happen in the next ten years? The next twenty? The next thirty? The best comment or email will then get a free ebook of your choice from me.