mikebrotherton.com - 2/18/2009
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OK, this is the big announcement.
The anthology of astronomy stories I’ve been working on for the last year or two, off and on, is finally completed and available: Diamonds in the Sky .
The anthology is free and you can go there now and read the stories, most of which are original but ...
mikebrotherton.com - 2/17/2009
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Welcome! If you’re looking for free science fiction
stories featuring a range of astronomical facts and mind-blowing...
concepts, you’ve found the right place. This collection was pitched to the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a way of doing some ...
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FREE ANTHOLOGY: Diamonds in the Sky edited by Mike Brotherton
SF Signal —
Mike Brotherton has announced the release of a new, FREE online anthology featuring some big-name writers. It's titled Diamonds in the Sky and is comprised of both new and reprinted stories that feature Astronomy. It was funded by the National Science Foundation.
Here's the table of contents: "In the Autumn of Empire" by Jerry Oltion "End of the World" by Alma Alexander "The Freshmen Hookup" by Wil McCarthy "Galactic Stress" by David Levine "The Moon is a Harsh Pig" by Jerry Weinberg ...
Friday Free Fiction for 20th February
Futurismic —
... Planets” by Alan Mattox
“Strange Alliance” by Bryce Walton
“The Three Eyes” by Maurice LeBlanc
“The Great Gray Plague” by Raymond F Jones (some sort of proto-Drexlerian nano-pocalypse, maybe?)
“Moment of Truth” by Basil Eugene Wells
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