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Thorns
Robert Silverberg
In a world where humanity has colonized the solar system and begun to explore more of the local galaxy, a vast audience follows real-life stories presented by wealthy media mogul, Duncan Chalk. Chalk feeds ...
Hot Sky at Midnight
Robert Silverberg
Several decades into the future, a long series of corporate and government decisions has left the Earth in a state of disaster, almost uninhabitable. The icecaps have melted. The ozone layer is destroyed. A few...
Kingdoms of the Wall
Robert Silverberg
The village of Jespodar nestles in the foothills of a world-dominating mountain known to all as "The Wall." Poilar Crookleg has grown up in Jespodar training hard and hoping that he will be chosen for the annua...
Tower of Glass
Robert Silverberg
Simeon Krug is a self-made man, fantastically wealthy, having built a huge fortune with his android "products," genetically-engineered human slaves who worship him as a God. Krug epitomizes self-aggrandizement,...
Clan Ground
Clare Bell
With her mastery over fire—known as “the Red Tongue”—Ratha now leads the Named, a clan of sentient, prehistoric big cats with their own language, traditions, and law. But, her control becomes threat...
Jerusalem
Cecelia Holland
Non nobis, Domine, non nobis, sed Nomine Tuo da gloriam. “Not to us, O Lord, but to Your Name give glory.” This motto highlights the vows of chastity and humility taken by the Knights Templar. But, it als...
The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost
John Bellairs
On a trip to Florida with his father, Johnny Dixon visits a fortuneteller, and receives an eerie premonition. Inside the crystal ball Johnny sees a ghost-white face with long white hair and black eyes like p...
The Totems of Abydos
John Norman
In a far future, two anthropologists, gross, powerful, dissolute Emilio Rodriguez, and aspiring, young, naive Allan Brenner, who, unbeknownst to himself, carries ancient genes, of a sort no longer welcome on ...
Those Gentle Voices
John Norman
THOSE GENTLE VOICES A Promethean Romance of the Spaceways
"Because it's there..." That was why Earth men climbed Mt. Everest and why, in 2017, they set out for the distant star, Wolf 359. In 1988, they ha...
Jovian
Don Moffitt
Like all human colonists born into the crushing gravity of Jupiter, Jarls Anders commands tremendous physical strength and survival ability. And, like his fellow Jovians, Jarls has grown up innocent, easy to e...
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Lens of the World
R.A. MacAvoy
This is the story of Nazhuret, an outcast, the dwarfish offspring of unknown parents. Yet his story is a great one, filled with surprising rewards and amazing adventures. By the hands of Powl, mentor, madma...
Heiress
Janet Dailey
In Heiress, two sisters meet at the funeral of one of the most prestigious men in the country, Dean Lawson, their father. Abbie Lawson, the dutiful genteel daughter bred in the lap of luxury and, Rachel Farr, ...
Talking Back to Prozac
Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
Talking Back to Prozac: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You about today’s Most Controversial Drug With an Information Packed New Introduction
Peter R. Breggin, M.D., Bestselling Author of Medication Ma...
China Quest
Elizabeth Lane
It is 1861 and Hong Kong is the most exotic, remote place on earth for a westerner like Serena Rose Bellamy Bolton. She is as greedy for love as she is for treasure. For Jason Frobisher, Hong Kong is just ano...
The Bird of Time
George Alec Effinger
Far into the future, Hartstein's graduation present from his grandparents was a wonderful trip…into the past. He had a long future in the doughnut industry to look forward to but this trip was the icing ...
Fellowship of Fear
Aaron Elkins
When anthropology professor Gideon Oliver is offered a teaching fellowship at U.S. military bases in Germany, Sicily, Spain, and Holland, he wastes no time accepting. Stimulating courses to teach, a decen...
Eternity
Greg Bear
Multiple Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Greg Bear returns to the Earth of his acclaimed novel Eon—a world devastated by nuclear war. The crew of the asteroid-starship Thistledown has thwarted an attack by ...
Ratha's Courage
Clare Bell
"Screeching in pain and terror, the rogues backed off, but they didn't flee like the Un-Named raiders did. Something seemed to force them back into the fray, making them ignore their fright and their agony...
Red Limit Freeway
John DeChancie
Jake McGraw is a man on the run from half the universe. After stumbling upon what seems to be the fabled roadmap to the stars, Jake must outrun the most detestable vermin and roadbugs in the galaxy and the...
Shanji
James C. Glass
On the planet Shanji, a ruthless Emperor rules a subjugated people. Kati, raised by the lower caste Tumatsin, is taken captive by the Emperor's troops, but saved by The Searchers, who see her as the promise...
Walker's Widow
Heidi Betts
Between Heaven and Hell lies Purgatory, Texas--a town with too few saints ... and too many sinners.
TO CATCH A THIEF
Clayton Walker had been sent to Purgatory…but it felt more like hell. Assign...
Seize the Fire
Laura Kinsale
Olympia St. Leger is a princess in desperate need of a knight in shining armor. Sheridan Drake, amused by Olympia's innocence and magnificent beauty, but also intrigued by her considerable wealth, accepts th...
Embrace and Conquer
Jennifer Blake
Young and beautiful Felicite is the toast of New Orleans, her kindness and virtue an example to other young women. Daughter of an outlaw merchant, sister to the dangerously handsome swash-buckler Valcour Murat...
Castle for Rent
John DeChancie
Who will claim the throne now that Lord Incarnadine, King of the Realms Perilous, is dead? Under a mysterious spell cast by a mischief-maker, all of Castle Perilous's 144,000 creatures of curiosity clamor f...
Live Girls
Ray Garton
Davey's on the down and out when he loses his girl, his job and practically his sanity. While some men drown themselves in a forgiving bottle, Davey believes it's much more profitable to sink into Times Square...
Ariel
Steven R. Boyett
At four-thirty one Saturday afternoon the laws of physics as we know them underwent a change. Electronic devices, cars, industries stopped. The lights went out. Any technology more complicated tha...
Last spring, to the dismay of countless authors, Amazon announced it was closing its Amazon Shorts program. Today shorts are back but not story length. Instead, Amazon has introduced a way to publish short books of 10,000 to 30,000 words. It’s called Kindle Singles.
“This medium-length format has traditionally been difficult for writers to sell to publishers as it doesn’t fit into the mold of a printing-press distribution model,” writes Nick Bilton of the New York Times.
“The new storefront isn’t open for business yet as Amazon still needs to recruit writers of shorter texts. But when it gets started you can expect it to disrupt the publishing industry a little bit more.”
Not sure Amazon will need to recruit writers for Kindle Singles. More likely they’ll need to hire a militia to fight off horde of authors who just happen to have short novels in their trunk that publishers spurned. But Publishing Industry Disruption fans will rejoice. Do we know any (besides Jeff)?
You can read about it in Amazon Introduces a Format for Shorter E-Books
Richard Curtis
