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August’s Best Content for You from Andy Zach

Best Content for you is right here. Of course, we must start with “Bears on a Plane”. The question for you is, a short story or a novel? Tell me and I’ll send you a copy. If not this short story, then another one.

By the way, I have more short stories for you below.

What can top ‘Bears on a Plane’?

I grew up in Cleveland and so did Tim Conway. We watched him on the Carol Burnette Show. He never failed to crack up his fellow comedians.

Going on, I also found this amazing video: Mars’ entire 24-hour rotation.

More Great Content from the Internet

Author E.M. Swift-Hook was kind enough to share an excerpt of my book Zombie Turkeys on her blog. Here it is:

Excerpt from Zombie Turkeys, by Andy Zach.

CHAPTER 2 – EDWARDS

He felt great, full of energy. He led his flock out of the woods. Now there was another field in front of them, with a large barnlike structure on it. Maybe it was another turkey barn!He’d go free them and gain more members for his flock. They had acquired more wild turkey flocks during their march. Now twelve thousand strong, they charged the barnlike structure.

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The Caterpillar Edwards Dealer Education facility was preparing for a big customer demonstration. A large 390F backhoe was digging trenches and D-11 and D-10 tractors were filling them in—inside the voluminous demonstration building. It was only 7:30 a.m., but they had a scripted and choreographed performance to practice, showing the capabilities of the company’s huge machines. Part of script was for the 390s to dig a huge trench, have a small D-4 tractor go into it and smooth it out, and then have the big D-11s fill it back in. Then an enormous flock of turkeys entered through the open arena door. “Gobble! Gobble!”

That was not in the script.

Read more at E.M. Swift-Hook’s page here

You’re Not Done With Great Content

Good news! You’ve got another free excerpt below. It’s my short story ‘In A Pickle’ from my book Oops!

Yes, this is an eMagazine with lots of stories by lots of authors–including me. Here’s my short story icon:

The death of an egg. Always a sobering topic. He’ll be savored long after he’s gone.

How About a Hypersonic Jet for You?

The SR-71 was one of my favorite planes of all time. Top speed of around 3,000 mph (4,800 kph for you metric folks.) Here’s a possible successor which is planned to go at twice the speed, up to Mach 8.

I now take you from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Is this next video ridiculous or sublime? Or just history? Or just fun?

Bye for now! If you find any great content, let me know and I’ll send you a free book.

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Your News, Book Reviews, and SciFi Books

Your News

Your News, Book Reviews, and SciFi Books as curated by me, Andy Zach. I read through the whole internet (well, most of it) in the past month. Let’s get started!

This is actually in the science category, military science:

Paranormal Privateers is here:

Since I told you about my audiobook, one of my six, I should tell you you can get it free right here. Click to join my newsletter. I also give away free short stories and one of my ebooks.

But enough of that. Let’s move on to my first review.

Your News
My review on Goodreads

One of the original military SciFi series, with some of the original supertanks, run by intelligent, aware AI. Mr. Laumer does a great job of portraying the personalities of these AIs, telling their stories from their point of view.

This collection of novellas is a must read for military scifi fans.

Andy Zach on Goodreads

Like my review? I’ve got more below. They’re not all by me.

Your News – Real News Here

I’m a science fiction author, so I like science news. Here’s one:

Which thing seems coolest to you? Highways that charge electric vehicles? Or black holes? Or a 5K running robot? Let me know and I’ll give you a free book! Tell me here.

I’ve got more science for you here, my friends:

Your Books – A Book Excerpt for You and another Review

Yup. It’s Zombie Turkeys excerpt. You can get a free copy here.

You’ll enjoy this book if you like adventure science fiction.

Authors Eric Flint and Ryk E. Spoor have added another fine adventure to their space castaway series. This time it is another space life ship from the same disaster. Led by the powerful Campbell, a severely injured woman and four young men escape the shipwreck to an unknown, undocumented planet they name Emerald.

The young crew has to rebuild the power coil of the ship and they barely get them to the planet. But that’s the least of their worries.

The planet is full of huge predators and they cannot relax for a moment. Then they get a call over their radio, “Hey, is anyone out there?”

Hard science and adventure-loving readers will get plenty of both before this tale ends. 

Andy Zach on Goodreads

An Amazing Science Video for You Follows

Was that enough news for you? Do you want me? Let me know.

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