Pay Me, Bug! [Kindle Edition]

Christopher B. Wright (Author)

Book Description

Grif Vindh, Captain of the Fool's Errand, just pulled off the job of a lifetime: against all odds, he and his crew smuggled a rare anti-aging drug out of Ur Voys, one of the most secretive and secure facilities in the Empire of the Radiant Throne. It was every smuggler's dream, the "Big Score," and they find themselves filthy rich as a result.

But their good fortune attracts exactly the wrong kind of attention: the Alliance of Free Worlds has been trying to infiltrate Ur Voys without success, so they conscript the only man who has: Grif Vindh. The Radiant Throne, desperate to know how their security was so easily thwarted, send one of their best to track him down and learn the truth... by any means necessary. Grif and his crew must perform the impossible a second time: break into Ur Voys, steal something so secretive their employers don't really know what it is, and get away clean.

Along the way they'll have to deal with deadly spies, psychotic telepaths, vicious cyborgs, inconvenient family ties... and a hyperintelligent bug who always bets against its captain.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Writer, former musician, occasional cartoonist, and noted authority on his own opinions, Christopher Brennan Wright has a weakness for tilting at windmills that has influenced every facet of his adult life. He embarked on a career of self-publishing when he overheard someone suggest that it might not be a good idea, and has cheerfully spent a great deal of time either proving or disproving that hypothesis. His site, Eviscerati.Org, is a hub for his essays, comics, fiction and podcasts. He insists on calling it “the vanguard in the next wave of speculative fiction” despite the fact that it’s really just the place where he posts all his stuff. He enjoys reading and writing speculative fiction, as well as writing about himself in the third person. He currently lives with his wife, daughter, dog, cat, and an overpoweringly large ego.

Product Details

• File Size: 586 KB
• Print Length: 352 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Eviscerati Communications LLC; 1 edition (July 18, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0063XGYU8
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #432,370 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Did someone say "Firefly"? December 3, 2011

By Fish

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

Every now and then a writer gets everything right. Christopher Wright definately gets everything right in this novel, which in itself is an astonishing treat. The setting s probably as old as this genre - a couple of independents between two superpowers - featuring a merry group of honorable smugglers/pirates/traders. So, once again, it is not the setting which is important, it's the genuine storytelling and the characters whose stories are told.
This novel is funny, never boring, has a bunch of characters anybody is going to love and it's pace is very high. Thats one of the books I read in one day. Wright is able to create that unique mix of tension, anxiety and delight which produces that yearning in the readers mind, the yearning for "what's up next, I can't wait, tell me, why can't I read faster?"
The one thing you'll do once you finish the book is asking for more.
And for all those people out there, who are still somewhat in love with "Firefly": this is the next best thing you're going to get.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Charming and Deftly Written November 24, 2011

By M. Hogarth

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I remain an indifferent reader of caper novels and am not particularly enamored of ruffians or dashing ne'er-do-wells, but Wright made me care about his cast of unlikely characters. The dialogue is superb, the characterization spot-on and the plot moves with both speed and poise, just as it should in a novel of this kind. It's funny, it's entertaining, it's extremely well-done. Plus (and a big plus it is), the formatting is clean and elegant, not always a given with e-books.

If you are a fan of space adventure novels with too-clever smuggler-captains, you owe it to yourself to drop the $3.50 on Pay Me, Bug! You could read it for free online, but you can pay the author the compliment of buying it, and in my opinion, you should.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Like Han Solo on a good day.... December 4, 2012

By Torah Cottrill

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This is space opera at its finest, with a crew of charming miscreants, a well-paced plot, and dialog so snappy it'll make you snort milk through your nose. If you liked Bujold's Vorkosigan books, you'll like this.

More About the Author

Writer, former musician, occasional cartoonist, and noted authority on his own opinions, Christopher B. Wright has a weakness for tilting at windmills that has influenced every facet of his adult life. He embarked on a career of self-publishing when he overheard someone suggest that it might not be a good idea, and has cheerfully spent a great deal of time since either proving or disproving that hypothesis. His site, Eviscerati.Org, is a hub for his essays, comics, fiction and podcasts. He insists on calling it "the vanguard in the next wave of speculative fiction" despite the fact that it's really just the place where he posts all his stuff.

He enjoys reading and writing speculative fiction, as well as writing about himself in the third person. He currently lives in West Virginia with his wife, daughter, dog, cat, and his overpoweringly large ego.