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Chronicle Worlds: Paradisi (Future Chronicles Book 14) Kindle Edition
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In the last decades of the twenty-first century, ten families seeking to escape a devastated Earth focus on constructing spaceships to colonize the world they call New Eden, in the Paradisi System. But the world they claim for their own is already inhabited, and the Ddaerans, although human in appearance, possess abilities that the Founders and their descendants do not…
In this latest title in the acclaimed 'Future Chronicles' series of speculative fiction anthologies, twelve authors take us on that incredible journey with adventurers, scientists and colonists, as they push the boundaries against the unknown, against alien civilization, and themselves.
Discover Chronicle Worlds. Discover Paradisi.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateOctober 31, 2016
- File size3127 KB
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"The best place to discover new SF authors, I think, is any of the anthologies coming from Samuel Peralta"
-- Hugh Howey, NY Times bestselling author of Wool
★★★★★
"A powerful new voice in speculative fiction"
--Nick Webb, USA Today bestselling author of the Legacy Fleet trilogy
About the Author
Its unique take on major science fiction and fantasy themes - A.I., time travel, dragons, robots, aliens, zombies, immortality, galactic battles, cyborgs, doomsday - has made it one of the most acclaimed anthology series of the digital era.
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- ASIN : B01M8POLMN
- Publisher : Windrift Books; 1st edition (October 31, 2016)
- Publication date : October 31, 2016
- Language : English
- File size : 3127 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 319 pages
- Lending : Enabled
- Best Sellers Rank: #862,087 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,993 in Science Fiction Anthologies (Kindle Store)
- #3,126 in Science Fiction Anthologies (Books)
- #4,611 in Space Marine Science Fiction eBooks
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About the authors
Author of dozens of science fiction and fantasy books, Joseph R. Lewis enjoys creating worlds in which history, science, imagination, and humanity collide in unpredictable ways. Series include the dying earth fantasy Dungeon Age, humorous fantasy Elf Saga, the steampunk thriller Aetherium, urban fantasy Zelda Pryce, and epic fantasy Angels and Djinn.
www.josephrlewis.com
Lindsay Edmunds lives a quiet normal life in southwestern Pennsylvania after more than twenty interesting years in Washington, D.C. In 1988 she acquired a used Mac Plus. It changed her life.
Speculative fiction, literary fiction, magical realism, spirituality, social commentary, humor, alternative history, coming of age—all those labels apply to her writing, sometimes simultaneously. She writes the kind of stories she likes to read: tales that mix it up, that show a lot of colors.
Her ambition is that her stories be true “in the way that stories are true,” to quote Nancy Willard, who wrote the wonderful novel Things Invisible to See.
She believes that everybody has stories to tell. If you doubt it, get someone talking about their job. You will hear tales of intrigue, heroics, deviltry, and lessons learned.
Everybody sees a lot. Everybody knows a lot.
Samuel Peralta's work has hit the USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestsellers lists, and been shortlisted for Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy. His award-winning poetry has been spotlighted by the BBC and Best American Poetry. His 'Future Chronicles' anthologies were all #1 bestsellers on Amazon, as was the recently released collection of his own work, 'Memory's Children'.
Physicist, entrepreneur, storyteller - he's designed nuclear robotic tools, built solar plants, and founded companies in optoelectronics, mobile software, and artificial intelligence. He's a producer of independent film, including Golden Globe nominee 'The Fencer' and Emmy Award winner 'Real Artists'. And he cooks a mean risotto.
Sign up for Felix R. Savage's mailing list to receive a FREE library of subscriber exclusive stories, set in four of his fictional universes: Earth's Last Gambit, Extinction Protocol, Sol System Renegades, and the Interstellar Railroad. These stories are not available anywhere else! http://felixrsavage.com/library
Felix was born too late to be a knight in armor, and too early to be a space colonist. He makes up for it by writing action-packed science fiction epics that have sold over 130,000 copies worldwide and become USA Today bestsellers. Restlessly driven to explore, he was born in the Deep South, grew up in the UK, and now lives in Japan with his wonderful wife, two beautiful daughters, and their feline overlords. His books cover the spectrum of science fiction, from hard SF, through space opera, to comedic science fiction, but all deliver his trademark blend of rich characterization, gripping plots, and unexpected twists. Until the day when we can vacation on Mars, this is as good as it gets!
USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author Cheri Lasota is a freelance author, designer and editor. Her bestselling debut novel, Artemis Rising, is a 2013 Cygnus Awards First Place Winner and a 2012 finalist in the Next Generation Indie Books Awards. Cheri also helped found the Paradisi Chronicles, a massive open-source sci-fi universe set on the fictional planet, New Eden. Her Paradisi Exodus series focuses on the early years of the human exodus from Earth to the new planet. Cheri’s most recent project is her ambitious Historical Fantasy series, Immortal Codex, which explores the lives of immortals throughout history.
Sign up to receive news of Cheri’s latest book releases via her newsletter at CheriLasota.com.
Ellen Campbell is a lifelong bibliophile whose love for the written word crosses genres. A standout editor in the independent scene since 2013, Ellen’s credits include over two hundred and fifty titles, a feat that has landed her (briefly) in Amazon’s Top 10 sci-fi authors on several occasions. She edited six volumes of the international best-selling Future Chronicles, five volumes of Beyond the Stars and was Editor-in-Charge of the Apocalypse Weird Metaverse. Now Senior Editor, producer, and contributor at Keystroke Medium.
She currently resides in Rocket City, USA, with her long-suffering husband and a half-grown Catahoula Leopard Dog.
Find her at ellencampbelledits.com or keystrokemedium.com
Jeff Seymour writes hopeful, heartfelt fantasy that blends modern characters with timeless plots and offers something new and fantastic on every page. His debut middle-grade novel, Nadya Skylung and the Cloudship Rescue, will be published by Putnam Young Readers in 2018, and his epic fantasy Soulwoven got over a million reads while being featured on Wattpad.
Jeff has also edited sci-fi and fantasy for clients including Jennifer Foehner Wells, Felix R. Savage, Samuel Peralta's CHRONICLES series, Harlequin's digital-first imprint Carina Press, and the Nelson Literary Agency Digital Liaison Platform. In his free time, he plays more video games than he should, serves as support team to a wife with an incredible career of her own, pretends he knows anything about raising children, and gathers ideas for stories everywhere he goes.
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Claire can't remember a time when writing wasn't part of her life. From the time she was a pre-teen, she wrote stories, most of them romances. She used to write stories with her friends, with each of them choosing a famous person or a character from their favorite TV series, and model the novels around that. One of her earliest stories, unfortunately lost to time, centered around the 1970s series Starsky and Hutch (she was partial to Starsky).
Although she read primarily fantasy and science fiction as a teenager, it didn't take long for Claire to discover Harlequin romances and their happily-ever-after endings. In a time when book covers would be ripped off the books for returns and then the actual books resold on the second-hand market, Claire devoured these coverless romances (and she regrets her role in the copyright violation), but always wanted to know what happened behind closed doors.
Fast forward and life, as life will, took precedence over creativity. She continued to write on and off, but it kept taking a back seat to other priorities such as paying the bills. When she started reading romances again, several years ago, Claire was delighted to find that the bedroom boundary first got broken, using euphemisms, and then romances went to their natural place of plain English and intense sexual situations. To her, anything goes within the boundaries of a loving relationship. She decided, if she enjoyed reading it, then she could take that natural next step and write it. And so a revived writing career was born.
Early literary influences include Anne McCaffrey, most notably her Dragonriders of Pern series, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Elizabeth Lowell. Current authors she admire include C.L. Wilson, Nalini Singh, and Marjorie Liu.
Claire has many irons in the fire, most notably her first foray into urban fantasy as well as a paranormal series and many contemporary romances. The books she has self-published are just the beginning of what she hopes will be a long and rewarding career that brings romance to people.
The first book in her paranormal series, called "Fire Danger" is now available on Amazon!
Originally from Brookline, Massachusetts, Claire now lives in Los Angeles. In addition to writing she has an office job she loves, does animal rescue, reads and goes to movies. She loves to hear from fans, so feel free to drop her a line!
Andy was abducted by science fiction pulp magazines and fell in love with classic noir in his teens.
After graduating, he worked in marketing, franchising, and computing in London and Luxembourg before launching his own web design company. In 2011, he sold the company and retired early to write, act, and travel.
He hopes you enjoy reading the adventures of his imaginary friends.
Blog: http://andymckell.com
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David Bruns earned a Bachelor of Science in Honors English from the United States Naval Academy. (That's not a typo. He's probably the only English major you'll ever meet who took multiple semesters of calculus, physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, naval architecture, and weapons systems just so he could read some Shakespeare. It was totally worth it.)
Following six years as a US Navy submarine officer, David spent twenty years in the high-tech private sector. A graduate of the prestigious Clarion West Writers Workshop, he is the author of over twenty novels and dozens of short stories. Today, he co-writes contemporary national security thrillers with retired naval intelligence officer, J.R. Olson.
Find out more and download a free Starter Library at www.davidbruns.com.
Why do I write? Why does anyone write? Because they have something to say. For me, I have ideas boiling around all the time–situations, cool concepts, occasionally diatribes, but overall, I have characters in my head that demand their chance at existence. Who am I to stand in their way?
I was born at a very early age. As part of a military family, we moved around a LOT. My dad’s last duty station was West Point, NY, and I was fortunate enough to be admitted to the Class of 1982 (“The Select Few”). It was at West Point that I met the woman I would marry, Barbara. We’ve been married since 1983. I was in the US Army for 6+ years, ending my tour in West Germany (how quaint that sounds!). I joined a civil engineering firm in NYC, then, six years later, a transportation company in NJ.
I ran into National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo.org) and actually wrote 50k words in one month. I looked around their website, looking for other opportunities to write. And found them.
I started writing short stories and submitting them to markets. I read blogs and learned craft. I went to events like Pitchapalooza to learn how to pitch agents and publishers. I had dozens of near-misses, and still do--some markets get flooded with hundreds of submissions. The key is perseverance--just keep working at it. You never know when a break will come.
I give back--by helping others who are just starting out, and encouraging others who are on the road to publication like me
NaNoWriMo: I am one of two Co-Municipal Liaisons to the Central NJ Region.
Princeton Writing Group: Since NaNo tends to peak in November and rapidly dies off thereafter, I help with the Princeton Writing Group, a Meetup.com group that has been going strong for years. Write-ins, daytrips, Book-Con outings, PWG does it all.
Three Day Novel: I got into this as a direct result of being in NaNoWriMo, finally taking the plunge in August of 2010. Insane! Write a 30k novella in 72 hours? But I did it, and haven’t missed a year. "The Longest Con" is my 2014 entry. I will polish and publish most of them during 2017.
Can you do what I have done? ABSOLUTELY! Want some guidance? Check out my blog, and feel free to contact me through the blog.
Rey Wright. A child of the 80s and 90s. Raised in California. Currently living in western Washington. Has always had a love for dark fantasy and horror. Published a SyFy novella and short story as part of an anthology. Has also published a horror short story. Spends her time reading and writing and chasing her two boys. Currently working on writing a dark fantasy series and reading a mountain of books.
SJ Mayeski writes short stories and novels, edits all lengths of stories for others, and coaches other writers as well. He also offers non-fiction contract projects on a variety of topics.
Mayeski has enjoyed several other careers in his darkish past, managing a restaurant in San Francisco for many years, programming and managing software systems for a university, an insurance company, and a financial data system company. He managed database and web systems for a defense contractor for over ten years, and during political campaign years serves as treasurer for candidates in Southern California. Simon contributed a short story to the #1 SF anthology from The Future Chronicles, Chronicle Worlds: Paradisi. He has two novels due out in 2021, and has lots of short stories in the pipeline. Stay tuned!
USA Today Bestselling Author, M. Louisa Locke, is a retired professor of U.S. and Women's History who embarked on a second career as an historical fiction writer. Her Victorian San Francisco Mystery series feature Annie Fuller, a boardinghouse owner and pretend clairvoyant, and Nate Dawson, a San Francisco lawyer, who together investigate murders and other crimes. Her short stories and novellas give secondary characters from this series a chance to get involved in their own minor mysteries.
As Louisa Locke, she has written a coming of age science fiction trilogy in the open source science fiction world of the Paradisi Chronicles. To learn more about her historical mysteries or the new science fiction series go to http://mlouisalocke.com/. If you wish to be notified of new publications subscribe to her newsletter or click the yellow FOLLOW button under her photograph on her Author Page.
Dr. Locke is an active member in the Alliance of Independent Authors, a Director of the Historical Fiction Authors Cooperative, and a founder of the Paradisi Chronicles. For those of you who have read her work, Locke would love to hear from you at mlouisalocke@gmail.com.
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This is actually my first real foray into the Chronicle Worlds. I'm going to admit that my expertise is sadly lacking and my knowledge of its history and complex cultures, languages, and people is poor. However, I've bee a lifelong Sci-Fi and Fantasy lover, so I really wanted to read the stories and see if the hype was true.
Even those readers who are JUST entering this world, I guarantee you will be learning a LOT about it. These stories drew me in as I read, giving me insight and immersing me in the rich narrative. I felt the pain, joy, fear, anger, hope, and doubts of each of the main characters and even though each story was written by a different author, with a different voice, telling different tales, I felt the interwoven threads that pulled them all together.
Exploring space and life on other planets and galaxies has always fascinated me. Chronicle Worlds made it come to life. I could picture the terrain in my mind, see the stars as the space ships passed them by, feel the tension and the longing to make a better future after seeing the depths of destruction humans can leave through generations of careless disregard for one another and the world. Wondering if the future can correct past mistakes or if history is bound to repeat itself. Chronicle Worlds explores what it means to be human in a brave new world, while cautioning us to heed the mistakes of our past, lest we make them again. It reveals the greatest good we can do AND the greatest evil. It explores our ignorance and curiosity as well as our will to survive.
While I definitely have my favorite authors in the anthology, I must say that every one of them wrote their stories well. It's amazing to me what we can do as a human race when we're united in one common goal. And it's amazing to me how well fiction can communicate truth.
The bottom line is that I really like all of these authors and their writing- but taken together the anthology falls flat.
>>>>> Reviewing “The Fall of Seren” by Cheri Lasota >>>>>
Serentyn Myric climbed up to the Keenbarrows, hills of the old dead. She was to be the chosen sacrifice for the entire village. This was her destiny from the time she was born. She was pondering the words of the old prophecy. Would her power be able to hold back Dinistrydd, a catastrophic meteor strike that had done so much damage to her world year after year? Was she going to die?
She thought back to when Idris had taken her to a cave to see something he had found. The first chamber had a smell of death and she was glad to move away from it. It opened up into a cavern and she saw all sorts of glowing, colorful worms on the walls. As they sat on the floor watching, he let her read his thoughts of wanting to kiss her. She wanted that too.
When the time had come, her friend Idris had followed her, upset that the elders would let her face this alone and would not agree to face the disaster and join their powers to hers. When she would not abandon her fate, Idris kissed her and something frightening happened. She realized he had given her most of his psychokinetic power before he said goodbye. And if she survived what was coming, he asked her to find him in the far away place he was going to now. Could that happen? Would she ever see him again?
This was a really compelling story about unlikely heroes. I highly recommend reading this one, along with all the other great stories in the box set. What a wonderful treat for the reader!
>>>>> Reviewing “Down and Out in Caprinet” by Fexlix R Savage >>>>>
Gustav Gunther woke up from the helio crash with none of his weapons; even his contacts were missing! His head hurt and he pulled off a wrapping to discover his DOT, an implant which connected him to the Net, was cut out of his head. The stranger, referred to as the “runty SOB” and eventually identified as Saul, led him through the jungle. Apparently Saul had been a member of the 11th ship heading to Paradisi system which disappeared. The other 10 colonist ships chose to ignore the missing ship in their escape to Paradisi. Gustav was now hearing about their fate.
As they continued through the jungle, Gustav realized he had a fever from his wound. He and Saul rode creatures like dolphins down the river until a storm forced them to shore. The redhead Gustav encountered earlier cutting apart his crashed helio was riding a large bird. She argued with Saul and had the bird snatch his up by its claws; it then dropped him from high above to his apparent death. Gustav passed out and was luckily found by fishermen. They took him to their village where he seemed to fit right in. Now it was time to make the choice – stay or continue on? What will the future offer him? Can he survive this world?
We hear the story through switching back and forth from the original incident and Captain Gunther’s court-martial, interspersed in the story. The world is described so well that the reader feels like a part of it. The extreme views of the native people reflect clearly their attitudes toward Gunther, one of the original Descendants. The story progresses relentlessly, and you never know what’s coming. It was a good read and I highly recommend it.
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