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My post-apocalyptic scifi/fantasy novel, Way of the Wolf: Book One of the Vampire Earth went up on the bookstore shelves about a month ago, and it's time for it to come down this week to make way for new merchandise. Thanks to the efforts of some of the FReepers on this thread it appears to have done fairly well. As a last hurrah I decided to post Chapter One of the book here on FR in the hope that I'd get a few more readers. Chapter OneNorthern Louisiana, March, the forty-third year of the Kurian Order: The green expanse once...

WELCOME TO THE YEAR 2065. EARTH IS UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. You've known me for years on this forum as Snake65. After a lot of toil, sweat, and tears--but no blood--I've had a lifelong dream come true of having a scifi/fantasy novel published by NAL/Roc. It started going up on the shelves Tuesday in the United States, Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. Being a first time author is great, but it's a bed of roses with a lot of thorns. As I'm not a name author, some bookstores don't even have me on the shelves, so I'm hoping for...

Discussion thread for The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.... This book represented a personal look at the special Soviet prisons for scientists. I assume that Solzhenitsyn himself was once in such a prison. Even though the conditions in such prisons were harsh, they weren't nearly as brutal as the Siberian labor camps. From what I understand such scientific prisons, "sharaskas," were also used to develop the A-Bomb for the Soviets in the 1940s. Does anybody know if there was really a big attempt by the Soviets back then to develop a phone to scramble and unscramble voices? It is a...

Have you ever heard about reading clubs? This is where readers read a particular book at the same time. I think it would be fun to do something like that here. A book could be assigned and Freepers who wish to join in could read the book at the same time. Following the deadline date for completion, we could post our commentaries on the book. Since it is < proprietary mode> my idea < /proprietary mode> I suggest that I be the one to make the book recommendations. Some folks have flamed me for supposedly looking down my nose at...