COVID-19 is heartbreaking, ravaging our world and killing tens of thousands. As there’s no vaccine, the only effective strategy to contain its exponential growth is to self-isolate and stay at home.
There’s not much a science fiction writer can do beyond encourage people to listen to the experts and wash their hands, but I thought I could help with a #StayHome #ReadAtHome campaign.
Not my library, but oh, how I wish…
Here’s how it works… for the next 40 days, there will be at least one novel available for free on Amazon every two days! Each ebook will remain free for five days (or as determined by the author). Here’s the schedule. Hopefully, that’ll give you plenty to #ReadAtHome.
| Novel | Teaser | Weekday | Starts |
| The Curious Case of the Hounds of Hell | Sherlock Holmes undertakes his most challenging case yet | Thursday | April 16th |
| Melody 8 | A teenager’s life is thrown into disarray in this thrilling and horrific dystopian novella! | Thursday | April 16th |
| Mister Fluffy Bunny | WARNING: Contains violence, drug references and cute stuffed toys. | Saturday | April 18th |
| Alien Space Tentacle Porn | Read the reviews, then read the book | Monday | April 20th |
| Shadows | For lovers of Hugh Howey’s WOOL series | Wednesday | April 22nd |
| Anomaly | First Contact turns a New York street upside down | Friday | April 24th |
| Nosferatu | Bram Stoker’s Dracula reimagined | Sunday | April 26th |
| Feedback | Time travel inevitably leads to feedback loops | Tuesday | April 28th |
| What We Left Behind | Zombies have met their match in at teenaged girl called Hazel | Thursday | April 30th |
| All Our Tomorrows | Hazel is back to clean up Zee once and for all | Saturday | May 2nd |
| Road to Hell | Loyalty is a disease | Monday | May 4th |
| Starship Mine | It’s the journey we all take in life | Wednesday | May 6th |
| Welcome to the Occupied States of America | What can a disabled teen do when faced with ravenous alien monsters? | Friday | May 8th |
| Monsters | When reading is outlawed | Sunday | May 10th |
| Little Green Men | Be careful what you wish for | Tuesday | May 12th |
| My Sweet Satan | When first contact gets a little too close | Thursday | May 14th |
| Losing Mars | A rescue mission conducted 400 million miles from home | Saturday | May 16th |
| Maestrom | What happens when parallel worlds collide? | Monday | May 18th |
| Hello World | A decade’s worth of short stories in one anthology | Wednesday | May 20th |
| Xenophobia | What happens when first contact interrupts a civil war? | Friday | May 22nd |
| But the Stars | Who do you trust? | Sunday | May 24th |
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THINKING SCI-FI 
Hi Peter loved 98% of your books! Can you please write a follow up to Galactic Exploration? That was favorite book! Especially the last third when they fought the aliens. Please write further adventures.
Oh, I’d love to… I have plenty of material for a sequel but the book was never that popular and sequels rarely do as well as the original… some writers do incredibly well with sequels and series. I’ve always struggled with them, but I’ve only just this year become a full time author, so maybe I’ll have a bit more time to revisit Galactic Exploration. BTW, the proposed titles for the two additional books I originally planned were Galactic Conquest and Galactic War. Thanks for supporting independent science fiction. Be sure to subscribe to https://thinkingscifi.wordpress.com/subscribe-to-my-newsletter/
Peter,
Thank you so much for your reply! Im a huge fan. Please I hope you write both sequels! It is truly your finest work. Ive bought, 20 of your books! My favorites are as follows:
1. Galactic Exploration
2. Monsters.
3. Occupied states of America
4. Retrograde.
5. Losing mars.
6. Maelstrom.
7. Freefall.
8. Ezekiel.
9. All of our ztomorrows.
10. What we left behind.
Im struggling with But the Stars. At the 1st 3rd of the book. Its hard to understand Dantes dreams fake world imagination stream of consciousness. I will keep reading.
Fyi, ive re-read Galactic Exploration 4 times, its that good!
You are a blessing and a gift to us. I cant wait for your next book!
Thank you,
Mark
Ah, Monsters is another one I wanted to write a sequel to (called Monstrous), perhaps one day
If you’re curious, here’s the cover designs for a novel coming up later this year. It’s based on a short story that can be found in the anthology HELLO WORLD https://www.canva.com/design/DAD5xW14JfI/ADT3Y8QOHyMkAcP8CH128Q/view?utm_content=DAD5xW14JfI&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=sharebutton
Thank you for sharing! Once it preorders on Amazon, I will buy it.
Hello Peter,
thank you for your kind offering #ReadAtHome.
I have bought several paper books Like My Sweet Satan, Ezekiel and bought Galactic Exploration via Kindle.
Galactic Exploration is standing out. The reading experience was excellent and I thoroughly enjoyed the clever twists and aim for scientific accuracy.
I can only kindly implore you to write the 2 sequels to Galactic Exploration that you mentioned in your blog here earlier. Maybe you want to consider to crowdfund the effort?
I’ll stop writing for now, cuz I have to read ‘Free Fall’ this afternoon.
With a heartfelt thank you for great hours of thrilled reading,
Tim
Tim.
First, thank you for supporting independent science fiction. After almost a decade of writing, I finally became a full time author this year. Unfortunately, it’s the worst possible time to try to make it as an author with the US political situation, the pandemic and a looming recession hitting, but I’m working hard on it. Secondly, I’d love to revisit Galactic Exploration with a sequel. No plans at the moment, but if some of my next few books take off, that’ll give me a little more breathing space to be able to undertake pet projects like Galactic War.
Kind regards,
Peter
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Hi Peter,
I posted a note here before, but somehow it might have been lost in the ether.
Thank you for #ReadAtHome which has been a kind and generous way of motivating readers to stay at home and away from a Corona infection.
I owned already the paperbacks of My Sweet Satan and Ez3kiel, but have recently bought Free Fall and Galactic Exploration via Kindle (I like paper, so I’ll buy the paper version always as well after).
I can only kindly implore you to write the 2 sequels to Galactic Exploration that you hinted about in a blog reply below. I’d say the book so far is your MASTER piece – pun intended. I am reading Science Fiction since 35+ years, from an early age on and the 4 novellas tieing together struck a cord.
I hope you give your Galactic Exploration Trek a chance. Have you thought about crowdfunding the two sequels?
With best regards,
Tim
I’d love to write a sequel to Galactic Exploration. It’s on the to-do list 🙂
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