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Pellucidar: the land at the Earth’s Core– what a great place to finish out my two week Ebook Signing Tour. I’ve been to twelve imaginary places and I feel as if I never left home. Pellucidar is the location for seven great books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. You can get them all, including Pellucidar right here. Download them in any ebook format.
Who could take a virtual ebook signing tour without visiting Utopia. First described by Sir Thomas More, you can download the ebook here. People here love my book Princess of Amathar, though they are somewhat behind the times in the ebook adoption business.
As I mentioned in an earlier comment, His Robot Wife is selling about three times as well in the UK than it is in the US Kindle store. I’m sure this is in large part to the very nice review (previously mentioned also) by Mr. Horrigan. Thanks to all of you in the UK. I appreciate your support.
5.0 out of 5 stars A very apt title., 17 Mar 2011
By S. Horrigan (London) – See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Dark and Forbidding Land (Senta and the Steel Dragon) (Kindle Edition)
I discovered Wesley Allison’s work only a short while ago when I read His Robot Wife. That story impressed me so much that I bought The Voyage of the Minotaur (Senta and the Steel Dragon) the first in the Senta and the Steel Dragon series.
The title of this second book is very appropriate. It is a much darker read than the first volume. The colony at Port Dechantagne has now been established for a couple of years and is expanding rapidly. More and more people are arriving looking for a new life, for adventure hunting dinosaurs or to trade with the colonists.
In places this book is a much less comfortable read than the first book. The native lizard men are servants almost in slavery to the humans. There is corporal and capital punishment, religious persecution and the parallels that are drawn to our own world and to some of the more abhorrent events in our history are very and sometimes brutally obvious. There is a lighter side though with the now 10 year old Senta, Bessemer the dragon and their gang of childhood friends running riot through the pages to keep the story in balance.
Once again presentation is perfect and again idiomatic English is used to great effect.
Overall 5 stars. This was a highly enjoyable read and I will definitely be downloading the next in the series but I am fully expecting the story to get much darker before the end.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A really great little book!, 11 Mar 2011
By S. Horrigan (London) – See all my reviews
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This review is from: His Robot Wife (Kindle Edition)
Mike Smith is a happily married, early retired, middle class ex-school teacher. The only unusual thing about him is that his wife Patience is a robot.
Told in a deceptively simple style this is a classic Asimov style robot story. It is not particularly long (it took me about two hours to read) but it does cover some very emotive issues about the rights of an artificial intelligence.
The character development of Patience is the key to this story. Starting as a very robotic robot, her discovery of her real self and her development as an individual rather than just being “His Robot Wife” are beautifully handled by the author. The story actually had me questioning my own opinions.
The Kindle presentation is perfect with no formatting or presentational errors that I could see. The cover picture is also included. The cover picture deserves a quick mention too – it is absolutely perfect for the book and is what first attracted my attention when browsing the Kindle science fiction section.
Overall 5 stars! The biggest compliment I can pay the author is that after finishing this book I immediately searched to see if he had written anything else. I found several other Kindle books by him and will definitely be reading some more of his work.
Elise had no idea when she came home that day that she’d end up mated to a complete stranger. A new Alpha and the need for an alliance between packs have made her a pawn. WINNER OF THE FPSSA – BEST ROMANCE and the SKOW – BEST VILLIAN
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There are now new low prices on ebook versions of the Senta and the Steel Dragon Series. The Voyage of the Minotaur. The Dark and Forbidding Land. The Drache Girl. Now all just $2.99 each, whether you pick them up at the Kindle Store of Smashwords. The pricing should follow soon at all of the other booksellers.
At precisely 11:59 Mike pulled into the driveway of Harriet and Jack’s house. It was a nice house, both larger and newer than his, nestled in a cul-de-sac several blocks away from the freeway exit. Harriet had planted hundreds of perennials around her home and though they were not blossoming at that time, they were thriving thanks to the large blue UV umbrella that covered the entire neighborhood. Harriet was waiting as they walked up the path to the front door. Mike grabbed one of his signs from the trunk while Patience retrieved the Jell-o mold.
“Hi Daddy. Hi Patience.”
“Hi, Harriet,” said Patience. “Thank you for having us over.”
“Of course.” Harriet and her robot step-mother exchanged kisses on the cheek.
“Hi Honey,” said Mike. “You look gigantic.”
“Thanks a lot, Dad.” Harriet ran a hand over her protruding baby bump. “I am gigantic.”
“Where’s Jack?”
“He’s in the garage shampooing the car interior,” she answered but looked quizzically at the sign he held in his hand.
“Oh, I brought you a present for your yard.” He showed it to her and then pressed it into the earth in the small garden beside Harriet’s door.
Mike’s daughter guided them into the house and closed the door.
“So why’s he shampooing the car seats now?” asked Mike as he plopped onto the couch.
“It’s quite a story,” answered Harriet. “Renee Holmes—she lives down the street, well she asked Jack to drive her to the pharmacy. She has two kids and they had to go with her because she didn’t have a baby sitter. Anyway, she got her prescription, but on the way back she started coughing so much that she threw up right in the back seat. Well, her oldest—that’s Mikey—he got a whiff of the smell and threw up too. Then Mikey’s little sister Marie vomited right in Jack’s lap and that set him off. So the entire car was practically filled with vomit and I told Jack that there was no way I could ride to my obstetrician’s appointment this week with the car smelling like that.”
“It’s just like that movie Stand By Me,” said Mike with a smile.
“I… oh, I don’t think I’ve seen it.”
“It was based on a story by Stephen King,” said Patience. “Originally published in King’s 1982 collection Different Seasons, it tells the story of three adolescents who set out on a journey to see the body of a dead boy.”
“Um, Okay,” said Harriet, putting a protective hand on her belly. “Patience, why don’t we set the table? Daddy, why don’t you go out to the garage and talk to Jack? Maybe you could even help him.”
His Robot Wife hit the iBook Store last night at about 8PM. It will be a nervewracking couple of months before I find out how it is selling. That’s one great benefit of publishing at the Kindle Store.
On a related note, His Robot Girlfriend, which was number 1 on the Free Science Fiction and Fantasy charts at iBooks, dropped to number 7. I can’t feel too bad about it since numbers 1-6 are all Star Wars books.
City of Amathar 