InterstellarNet: Enigma -- now (finally!) -- on paper :-)

Updated 12-04-2023

Hurrah! Now back in print and electrons

Updated 07-29-2023

Temporarily out of print and electrons, but under contract for reissue.

It's been an ebook serial. It's been an ebook book (or, as the publisher would have it, an ebook omnibus). It incorporates the Hugo Award-nominated novelette "Championship B'tok." But for the many who prefer the feel of a physical bound volume in their hands? They've been without an option.

Latest and greatest

It is InterstellarNet: Enigma, the third -- and, IMO, most ambitious yet -- adventure in the InterstellarNet saga. And as of today, I'm delighted to report, this novel is, finally, also available in print.

"When people talk about good hard SF -- rigorously extrapolated but still imbued with the classic sense-of-wonder -- they mean the work of Edward M. Lerner, the current master of the craft. InterstellarNet: Enigma is Lerner's latest gem, and it's up to his usual excellent standards; a winner all around."
-- Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Red Planet Blues

For a bit more about the story, read on.

Humanity once feared that we might be alone in the universe. Now we know better. And we’ve learned there are worse things than being alone ...

Joshua Matthews has the opportunity to write the definitive history of InterstellarNet. In that history he plans to focus attention on the improbability that an interstellar community even exists. But somehow, returning home from the party thrown to celebrate his good fortune, he has lost a month of his life. Everyone is certain he’s been on an epic bender. And so, rather than promoted, he is disgraced, unemployed, and unemployable ...

Firh Glithwah, leader of the Hunter clan Arblen Ems, schemes to liberate her people from two decades of ignominious internment and isolation on a remote moon of Uranus. And in the process to take vengeance against their human oppressors ...

Reporter Corinne Elman and United Planets intel agent Carl Rowland, each in their own way, remains scarred and haunted by the bloody fiasco that was the Hunter invasion of the Solar System ...

And none of them suspects that their tribulations have only begun, or that their lives will entwine -- across time and space -- to confront the InterstellarNet Enigma.

Yes, InterstellarNet: Enigma stands alone ... but if you're curious about the series, check out the InterstellarNet series page on my website. Or merely these few words from the longtime editor of Analog:

“Edward M. Lerner’s InterstellarNet is one of the most original and well-thought-out visions of an interstellar civilization I’ve ever seen.”

-- Stanley Schmidt, Author of Argonaut

InterstellarNet Book 1

InterstellarNet Book 2

Intrigued? Of course you are :-) Feel free to click through to Amazon for IE in print, IE as an ebook, or (if you're not ready for a big commitment) IE the ebook serial, part 1.  

If you prefer the brick-and-mortar option and don't find a copy on the shelf, simply tell the friendly bookseller at your preferred outlet:

InterstellarNet: Enigma
Edward M. Lerner
FoxAcre Press
Official release date: June 30, 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1936771646