Muses & Musings (and also Amusing)

“Sure to have something to appeal to almost every reader of science fiction.” 

— Tangent Online, on M&M

What's M&M (besides a favorite candy)? Funny you should ask.

I'm pleased to announce the re-release by ReAnimus Press of Muses & Musings: A Science Fiction Collection.  Originally published in 2019, M&M offers seventeen stories at every length from flash to novella -- works selected from over a decade’s output -- chosen from four separate magazines and three original anthologies. And as a bonus, there’s a guest intro from every-conceivable-award-winner Robert J. Sawyer.

Alternate history. Parallel worlds. Rogue artificial intelligences. Alien invasion. Biting satire as to where the Internet is leading us. A Sherlock Holmes for the next century. Deco punk. Deep thoughts about, well, deep thoughts. In this book, you’ll find these—and more—together with my reminiscences as to what led me to create these seventeen stories in the first place.

This being a commercial announcement, here are the Amazon links for the Kindle, trade paperback, and hardback editions.

“He is science fiction down to the bone, but he very often takes the ‘serious’ stuff not so seriously. Or he does, but he still squeezes a modicum of wit and whimsy into his subjects. He can catch a salient point in a couple of pages or explore a well-trodden road like AI with new insight.”

— Galaxy’s Edge, on M&M

Listen up ;-)

Life and Death on Mars, my December 2023 novel, is now available as an audiobook. Huzzah! The audio version was produced by Tantor, a division of Recorded Books. 

(Tantor is also the Ape-ish word for elephant in the Tarzan books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It beats me if there's any connection.) 

ANYway ... the audio performance is available from Amazon as an Audible.com download, MP3 CD, and standard "audio" CD.

The novel remains available as an ebook -- here's the Kindle edition (you can find other formats on various etail sites) -- and a print edition.

What (beyond the obvious) is Life and Death on Mars about? I'm glad you asked ...

Starting off the new year with a bang(s)

Last September, I was delighted to report new ebook and print editions of four novels from comparatively early in my career -- see "Happy day (they're here)". (The new releases are lovely, if you haven't yet checked  them out.)

Today I'm as pleased to announce -- with the ink barely dry -- the signed contract to re-release two more of my earlier books. 

First-edition cover

Trope-ing the Light Fantastic: The Science Behind the Fiction: "Edward M. Lerner has produced the best-ever guide to putting the science in science fiction, and he's done it with clarity, wit, and panache." -- Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of  The Downloaded.

First-edition title

Muses & Musings: A Science Fiction Collection: "He [that being me] is science fiction down to the bone, but he very often takes the ‘serious’ stuff not so seriously. Or he does, but he still squeezes a modicum of wit and whimsy into his subjects. He can catch a salient point in a couple of pages or explore a well-trodden road like AI with new insight." -- Galaxy’s Edge

The new publisher for both is the aptly named ReAnimus Press.

But wait -- there's more start-of-the-year good news. One of my 2024 short stories, "The Dark at the End of the Tunnel," is under contract to reappear in the upcoming  anthology The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 9. 

  
More news as it happens. Also ... huzzah!

And so it begins

 What's 2025 have in store for us ... besides surprises?