Jumpdrives & Cantrips

I would very much like you to review my novel. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE IINDIANS is a sci-fi thriller that makes an analogy between Europeans coming to the Americas and aliens coming to earth.

Aliens make themselves known only to the United States government through a small series of hostile acts. They shoot down a couple of jet fighters and kidnap a commercial airliner packed with passengers. The one communication they offer is a request for an earth base in an isolated canyon in New Mexico. Whether the aliens have come in peace or not is up to the president to decide. The president’s advisers split. The hawks say not to give up any territory without a fight, what the American Indians should have done with Columbus. The doves say let them land, that it’s insane to start a shooting war with a superior power. The doves hope to deal with them, for the secrets of their technologies.

Terence Shannon (513) 231-0848 USA

Hi!
Like the others above, I’m interested in sending you books to review. I apologize for posting this on the blog but don’t see an email link anywhere. Please contact me. Thanks!

Hi Sara,

My name is Joe Bailey, I work for Blip Publishing and S. Spencer Baker
and I was wondering if you would consider reviewing or posting an article about our book?

SLABSCAPE:RESET: Take the most sophisticated A.I. designed mind that
has ever existed, encase it in over fifty million cubic kilometres of
diamond nano-rods and send it off on a twenty-thousand-year odyssey
towards the centre of the galaxy. Then screw it all up by allowing
thirty-two million humans, semi-humans and non-humans to go along for
the ride.

The story primarily follows Dielle, a “reset” who has just been thawed
out from cryonic suspension, only to find himself devoid of memory and
thrust into the frenzied world of Slabscape.

The other part of the story follows Louie Drago – Dielle’s former
self, previously a pornographically wealthy business mogul, now an
obnoxious hologram who has lost none of his lust for money and power,
nor his scathing wit.

Below is an excerpt from the book:

“Dielle opened his eyelids a fraction, kidding himself that if
something horrible was about to happen, he could avoid it by snapping
them shut again. His pupils contracted in the bright light and darted
from side to side, taking in details that his brain found almost
impossible to process. Gradually he allowed his eyes to widen as Sis
compensated for the adrenaline rush and stabilised his cortisol
levels. They were standing in bright daylight on a recreation platform
scattered with morph-frames, floatshades and variable tables.
Everywhere he looked, he saw buildings and platforms; gigantic slender
towers of tessellated mirrors hundreds of stories high, smaller
structures with surfaces that swallowed light or modified it in
brain-tickling ways and slender tendrils which joined the towering
spires or curved into the hazy distance. Their platform was edged with
shimmerail, a chest-high barrier which transformed from its barely
visible default state into an opaque, solid wall as he approached it.

He looked down over the edge. Below them was a three dimensional
matrix of buildings, walkways and public spaces all of them lit by the
ubiquitous sunlight that seemed to cast no shadows. It was a vast
sprawling metropolis, filled with light and space and teaming with
people. And as far as Dielle could tell, every building, bridge and
platform was floating… ‘A floating city in a landscape on a
spaceship.’ ‘It’s not a landscape, silly. This is Slab. It’s a
Slabscape’.”

Author Bio – Stephen Spencer Baker was born in September 1956 in
Nottingham, England. He fled formal education and family at 17 and
refused to ever return to either. He spent quite some time “exploiting
the intellectual property of others”, first setting up and record
company, followed by a creative business company and then a management
company, before waking up in Tokyo one day and remembering that his
childhood dream was to become a Science Fiction author and follow in
the footsteps of his hero Iain M. Banks. Ten years later, Steve
released his first novel “Slabscape: Reset”, accompanied by an online
database. The novel is a web-back; a work of fiction which is
published in printed as well as e-book format with addenda,
back-stories and tangentially linked information available online
through Slabscapedia. Steve currently lives in Tokyo, Japan with his
wife Yoko Kobayashi.

Here’s what some people have been saying about the book – taken from
amazon.co.uk, amazon.com, goodreads.com and others:

“… a very humorous and believable sci-fi outing. Drago as a character
is easily the most thought-out and well written character I have come
across this year”.

“Slabscape gives you the feeling that it’s the first act of a space
opera – you know you’re entering the world of a very imaginative
mind.”

“…a fantastic sci-fi read…I want to live on Slabscape.”

“Best thing since Hitchhiker’s!”

“deliciously dark…reminiscent of the likes of Douglas Adams.”

“Imaginative, entertaining, compelling and humorous”.

If you could send me a mailing address I would love to send you a copy
of the book. If you prefer e-books, that’s no problem either. Steve is available for interviews and we would be
happy to provide books for giveaways on your site.

Our website is here http://www.slabscape.com and if you have any questions or
queries, please feel free to contact me.

Thank you very much for your time,

Kind regards,

Joe Bailey.