Going Alien Goes Live!

Drum roll, please. Thanks, you can stop now. I said, thanks, you can... thank you. 

It's official; it's live; it's up for sale! My second of two short story collections, Going Alien, has just launched. Look to the east, in the sky. In the sky. See that bright spot of light? That's Going Alien, on its way into space, where the aliens are!

Here's what it looks like when it's not a spot of light in the sky. It's up now in the Book View Café store. It'll be up momentarily at Amazon, too—and Barnes and Noble, and Smashwords. It'll be up, as the world turns, in all of the other stores, like Apple and Sony and Kobo.

About the stories. I'm always leery about rereading my own stuff. I mean, what if I don't like it? What if I find it amateurish and derivative? What if I hate it? Well, to my own delight (and relief!), none of that happened! I actually really enjoyed reading through these stories, published over most of the years of my career. All of them, by the way, have bona fide aliens in them. And all have accompanying introductions with my reminiscences about the writing of them, and how they fit into the general scheme of my career.

Here's the list of stories, most of them appearing for the first time since their initial publication in places such as original anthologies edited by Roger Zelazny and Orson Scott Card, and in magazines like Galaxy and Galileo.

• Shapeshifter Finals
• Love Rogo
• What Gods Are These?
• Life-Tides
• Alien Persuasion
• Though All the Mountains Lie Between

If I may offer a review quote from an editor I asked to look at them: "These stories are great! I'm really enjoying them!" And, "This illustration is beautiful!"

Okay, the editor, Allysen Palmer, is technically also my wife, but still. She's a genuine professional editor. And she seemed really objective as she said that to me.

Why not give it a try? No aliens were harmed in the making of this ebook, and it's affordably priced at $2.99, wherever fine ebook story collections are sold. Right alongside my first collection, Reality and Other Fictions.

Going Alien at
Book View Café | Kindle | Nook | Smashwords