The paperback collection of all my Cyber stories has been published!
It’s available from Amazon: http://amzn.to/1BhItJE
I’ll offer signed copies for purchase from my site in the future, so check back if you are interested.
I’ve updated the covers for my Cyber series of short stories, hope you like them!
And if you’re a SF fan, you might like the stories, too! This is the complete series 1-4.
Cyber – Part 1 on Amazon.com: http://amzn.to/1FftBX4
Cyber – Part 2 on Amazon.com: http://amzn.to/1Tk1O2C
Cyber – Part 3
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on Amazon.com: http://amzn.to/1MzlOc7
Cyber – Part 4 on Amazon.com: http://amzn.to/1Tk2lRU
The last part of my short story series Cyber is now published!
You can get it here: http://amzn.to/1JEQJSN
Seamless data flow brings words and images together on a screen. Two beings inside the data stream. Lovers. But, what is real? And, how will they be together?
This is Part 4, the final part in the Cyber series, so read these other parts first:
Cyber – Part 1: http://amzn.to/17Rrv6V
Cyber – Part 2: http://amzn.to/1zKxgtA
Cyber – Part 3: http://amzn.to/1JER0VR
Cyber (Part 1) Spanish Version: http://amzn.to/1KkFd3L
Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky – my book review:
Get the book from Amazon: http://amzn.to/1BLEgq
Why I’ll Miss Mr. Spock, Leonard Nimoy
By David Sloma (www.davidsloma.com)
It started on a black and white TV from Eatons department store. The brand was Viking, their house brand. I remember that tube TV used to take a while to warm up, and when you switched it off the picture slowly disappeared into a small white dot in the middle of the screen. There was only one speaker, no cable channels, and the signals were collected by a “rabbit ears” antenna—that was how I was introduced to the original Star Trek series in the early 1970’s when I was a child.
Even with that humble TV set, the stories of Star Trek came through to my young mind and heart as crystal clear as in the latest HD, sparking my imagination from then on. The episodes thrilled me, at times scared me, amused me, and made me wonder about unknown things and possibilities. With plays set in space, I found real lessons about life on Earth. Star Trek started a fire in me, and also in the world at large. I thought a lot about outer space and travel to the stars, years before I was old enough to drive a car. Those tales are surely part of the reason why I write science fiction today.
I liked Captain Kirk because he was the Captain, and he did alright with the ladies (both human and alien). But there was something strange and deeply intriguing about the man in the blue shirt with the pointed ears and weirdly cut black hair: Mr. Spock spoke to the outsiders, the ones who didn’t feel they fit into a world not of their making. For a supposedly cold and mostly logical character, only half-human, I found a lot of feeling in Spock’s portrayal. It would be years later until I came to appreciate what he stood for more deeply.
As I grew up and the TV sets in our house got better, I kept watching Mr. Spock through the years. I learned there was a real man behind the character of Spock, indeed there were real people behind all of the characters I’d grown fond of on-board the Enterprise (and even some of the aliens, too). I found out the ships were not real but only TV and movie sets. They were not in space but on movie lots. And the actors behind the characters aged as I aged, too.
When Leonard Nimoy passed away on February 27, 2015, I felt a bit of shock. A part of my childhood had ended, I felt. In fact, Spock had been there through most of my life and now he was gone. There would be no more movies or TV shows with Mr. Spock in them, I had to accept. I still had the action figures, toys, cards, comic books, videos and other stuff of Star Trek from the years, but there would be no more new appearances by Mr. Nimoy.
I felt sad about that and also blessed, as I remembered how much he had given to the world. He kept being Mr. Spock long past the point of needing the money and that says the world to me. His work lives on and will prosper, of that I have no doubt. They just don’t make them that like anymore.
Thank you, Leonard Nimoy.
I’ve just published part 3 in my Cyber series of short stories:
Seamless data flow brings words and images together on a screen. Two beings inside the data stream. Lovers. But what is real? And how will they be together?
This is science-fiction/cyberpunk type stuff, with a space opera bent (cyberspace in this case). It’s a techno-relationship story.
Buy the ePub file direct from me via Gumroad (I get the best royalty rate this way!): https://gum.co/Afazk
Get it at Amazon for Kindle : http://amzn.to/1AKawtM
This is Part 3 in the Cyber series, so read these other parts first:
Cyber – Part 1: http://amzn.to/17Rrv6V
Cyber – Part 2: http://amzn.to/1zKxgtA
Part 4 coming in March 2015.
Cyber – Part 1 Spanish Version: http://amzn.to/1KkFd3L
Update: March 5, 2015
Right now Cyber – Part 3 is on Amazon(.com) at:
#23 in Kindle Store > Kindle Short Reads > 15 minutes (1-11 pages) > Science Fiction & Fantasy
#43 in Kindle Store > Kindle Short Reads > 15 minutes (1-11 pages) > Romance
When Jack, a pensive writer, encounters another version of himself, the “fun” is just beginning.
His doppelganger takes him on a fun-house ride that knows no bounds, only those of the imagination.
But it’s not all dazzle, as his future-self has things to tell before he disappears.
Where did this other self come from? Why is he here? What the hell is going on?
Jacks needs answers! His future is at stake.
IT’S A GREAT STORY! – comment from a longtime reader
My Mysterious Doppelganger by David Sloma
It’s on all the big ebooks stores and Amazon: http://amzn.to/1D7rndV
D.U.M.B.s (Deep Underground Military Bases) – first 4 novels
“Great read rivals Cussler and Riely…Thank you.” – reader comment left on author’s site.
Is there a clandestine world of tunnels and bases underground? Who is living in them? What do they want with humanity?
Leon Verdat thought he knew everything about building underground structures. His contracting business was very profitable and his family was thriving. It only took one visit from a mysterious Man in Black to change his life forever.
He was “asked” to come work for a secret military unit and introduced to black budgets and deep underground military bases (D.U.M.B.s) – the world of the “shadow government” and the ultra-rich, who live in a parallel society beneath our feet. Now, his life will never be the same again, if he survives.
There is more than he bargained for deep underground, including Grey aliens. They have been here for a very long time, tunneling, burrowing, making their plans for a takeover. The hive-like Greys are doing everything they can to kill off the human forces underground who are hunting them, before the Greys can emerge on the surface and take over the Earth for themselves, controlled by their off-planet masters.
But the secret military groups the world over are fighting as hard as they can to stop the alien’s creeping invasion and Leon is caught up in the war going on under the feet of the unaware masses. How will he reconcile the secret life he is living underground with his family life on the surface? And how will he help stop the Greys? Because if they are not defeated, then nothing else on Earth will matter.
The inspiration behind this book series?
Many late nights listening to Coast to Coast AM, since the early days of Art Bell, where he’d have many guests on that talked about aliens and underground secret bases (mostly in the southwest USA desert, like Area 51, but also bases all over the world), like Whitley Strieber, Richard Dolan, Roger Lear, Richard Sauder, and more.
Guests spoke about real life bases and also told some fictional stories. Some spoke about both.
These books take a sampling of the facts that have been made public about D.U.M.B.s and adds some imaginative speculation to create a brand new, wild fictional ride!
Buy the first 4 books in the D.U.M.B.s series together (1st storyline).
You get:
712 pages.
Buy it direct from me via Gumroad.com with PayPal or credit card (I get a higher share of royalties and more control over how I sell my writing. Thank you for supporting an independent writer!): https://gum.co/iMzUD
Other ebook stores you can get it at: https://davidsloma.com/book-stores
*Box set is not at Amazon currently, but you can buy each of the ebooks there separately, also paperbacks: http://amzn.to/1IUmZTw
My book “Cyber: Spanish version – en Español” is #15 in Kindle Store > Kindle Short Reads > 15 minutes (1-11 pages) > Science Fiction & Fantasy!
Here’s the finished cover to Moonbase: D.U.M.B.s (Deep Underground Military Bases) – Book 4. It’s now available as an ebook, with the paperback to follow, soon.
You can order it from Amazon: http://amzn.to/1ncN08T
Get it at Smashwords in multiple formats: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/493869
Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/books/details/David_Sloma_Moonbase_D_U_M_B_s_Deep_Underground_Mi?id=ubRsBQAAQBAJ
Coming soon to iTunes, Barnes and Noble, Scribd, Oyster, and more.
If you’ve not read the other books in the series, read them first, as the story is in order.
The D.U.M.B.s (Deep Underground Military Bases) series:
Book 1 Greyland: http://amzn.to/1t2tizb
Book 2 Oceandeep: http://amzn.to/1rgPqyn
Book 3 Rescueplan: http://amzn.to/1t2tcrm
Book 4 Moonbase: http://amzn.to/1qIqUcF
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