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AB Titles at Amazon for the Kindle Platform
The Kindle by Amazon is becoming the standard for eBook readers. It uses no background lighting, instead relying on a system of 'electronic inks' to display the text. Even in bright sunlight, there is no problem with reading. It holds up to 1,500 books and seldom needs recharging. Eventually, everything we offer will also be available for the Kindle, as well as in print. Titles shown below are now Kindle-ready. Links lead to that book's Kindle Edition page at Amazon where you can preview or purchase.
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AB Titles Now Available on Kindle
Pilot Down, Presumed Dead - by Marjorie Phleger. Pilot Steve Ferris makes a good living taking eager fishermen to equally eager charters in Baja California. On one return trip, he flies into a chubasco, a sudden summer storm that can strike with near-hurricane force. After a crash-landing on a beach far out to sea, it becomes a matter of survival.
Dimensions - Twenty-three tales of science fiction written by Escape Velocity Magazine founders Robert Blevins and Geoff Nelder. New improved version with added stories.
Robinson Crusoe - Special Redux Edition - The classic tale of survival and ultimate redemption by Daniel Defoe has been completely re-edited for modern readers by Adventure Books of Seattle. 'God,' says editor Robert M Blevins in the foreword, 'still has a part in the book, but a smaller one and more fitting to the actual adventure...' The Special Redux Edition corrects many of the flaws in Defoe's version, including a restructuring of events, since Defoe often related things out of order in the original. Dialogue is now 'attributed' with quotes and Defoe's unabridged manuscript was polished down from 160,000 to about 60,000 words. The only difference most readers will notice is a smoother flow to the story. Possibly the best version ever offered of this classic, and certainly the easiest to read.
Time Pieces - The definitive collection of science fiction tales on the subject of time travel. Stories include No Time Like the Present, Last Train Home, Combination Lock, Red Monkeys, Firstborn Killer and eighteen more stories by authors from around the world. Some are lighthearted reading, others more serious, even controversial. If you are a time travel fan, this is the ultimate trip. Currently, this is AB's most popular release for the Kindle.
The 13th Day of Christmas - A new U.S. President with vision throws down a challenge to NASA, asking if they can put humans on the Red Planet in less than four years, when Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in a decade. Two men and one woman roll the dice in this exciting story of a risky first mission to Mars. Conflict between a stubborn mission commander and a female astronaut assigned to pilot them to the Martian surface drives this story. Main character 'Anna Johnson' was partly based on real-life Canadian Chief Astronaut Julie Payette, who received a copy of the book in hardback.
Big Bang by A.J. Desmond - Modern-day London...a group of wealthy people once financed the construction of a huge shelter below the city, as a retreat in the event of nuclear war. They even installed a supercomputer capable of bending reality to its own ends. None of them thought they would actually have to use it - until the morning the alarm sounded. This special club includes a Member of Parliament, an action film star, a rock singer, and a host of other eclectic characters. Imaginative in scope and difficult to describe, 'Big Bang' has often been compared to a science-fiction version of 'Catch-22'. Welsh writer A.J. Desmond takes readers down Alice's rabbit-hole by the scruff of the neck and doesn't let go until the last page. The Corona Incident - Ray Stafford published his first science article at 14. Three years later, he sold a patent to General Motors that doubled fuel efficiency in cars. By the age of 22 he was offered an unprecendented chance to teach at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But even M.I.T. soon wearied of young Dr Stafford's secretive experiments, and they suspect he is keeping a double set of files. They are right...Stafford has stumbled onto the key to time travel and he doesn't know who to trust with the secret. His plan: To develop the technology in a secret location and use it to travel back to 1947 New Mexico in an attempt to find out if the famous Roswell Crash really happened. Say Goodbye to the Sun - Sixteen years after a chance discovery by an astronomer who uses a new program to enhance Hubble images, the first real attempt to reach a habitable planet outside our solar system is nearly ready. The New York Times calls the Galileo Project: 'Like trying to go to the moon ... during the time of Jules Verne.' Newsweek goes further, saying it is 'the most expensive suicide mission in history.' None of this matters to the crew of the Galileo Explorer, who have trained together for a decade. They are ready. The Escape Velocity Magazine - AB of Seattle's famous illustrated science fiction magazine is now available for the Kindle. Issue One was uploaded on August 15, 2009 with all others to follow soon. See issue links below to purchase at Amazon.
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