Debut story collection from S. J. Epstein
A rock band touring a foreign planet—that happens to be occupying Earth. A lunar colony facing economic calamity. The possible stirrings of a Second American Civil War. Stories about quantum weirdness, the nature of consciousness, ship-board disasters, and more. These are just some of the tales you’ll find in this debut volume from S. J. Epstein, now available at Amazon in Paperback and Kindle, and at Apple Books. Also available in hardcover at Blurb.com.
I’ll be featuring excerpts from some of the stories here—and you can buy a hardcover print copy at Blurb.com; or you can buy the eBook from Amazon or Apple; and the paperback print version from Amazon.
Some of the stories include:
- “Earthrise”: When your occupier brings you to their homeward for a cultural exchange—and you discover that they have tech, but you have culture.
- “Cassandra”: An expert warning ignored, and the disaster the comes from that
- “Tranquility”: What happens when you’ve set up shop on the Moon; and a disruptor upends your industry? What if you can’t afford to get home? Read the full story—free!
- “Triangulation”: Can you change a broken heart by changing your reality? And, if you can’t…
- “Entanglement”: Mid-20th Century Jewish mobsters, ghosts, politics, and more.
- “Shards”: A colony world with a valuable natural resource and a charter, the nobles who want to revoke that charter, and what comes after
- And many more.
Over time, you’ll find excerpts to these stories here. But if you want to find out how each one (plus the others in the book) end, you’ll have to buy the book.
—S. J. Epstein, June 3, 2021
About the author
S. J. Epstein wrote his first short story as a second-grade assignment, and has been passionate about the form ever since; so much so that in college he founded a campus magazine to publish them.
He earned an Honorable Mention in the Writers of the Future contest (for his story, “Earthrise”). He works as a marketer and copywriter for a global scientific and scholarly publisher. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and a growing collection of musical instruments and audio gear.
Latest posts
- Shards
Daniel Wasserman almost forgot to return the salute. He’d stepped on to the station landing deck from the transport, wrinkled flight fatigues, duffle bag over his shoulder. And when he saw the Lieutenant in duty whites standing at attention holding a salute, at first, the thought did not occur that it was for him. Until he remembered about the silver… - Entanglement
Jeff stood in the cavern of the emptied building, surrounded by nothing but the vast concrete floor, concrete pillars holding up the ceiling, and gloom. The chill he felt, he was sure, was his imagination. He hadn’t felt it the last time he’d been in this building—at least, not before hearing that eerie voice… He watched as his friend Rachel… - Earthrise
On a tour—on a normal tour—Richard would try to go on a daily run; outside, on real roads, in the real air. It was how he’d get a sense of a city, even when the tour consumed the day, even with the smooth-headed Rengle guards on the street corners. He’d run, with just music in his ears, and the rhythm… - Triangulation
When Randy got back from getting his Nobel Prize, what was the first thing he wanted to show me? The medallion? The check? Him in a tux trying to give a speech? No. “Patty—you’ve got to see this—they interviewed me. Me. They cut it down to only a few minutes for broadcast, but she put the whole thing up on… - Tranquility
FULL STORY. After all, why buy energy all the way from the Moon, when the U.S. military had fully scaled up Bussard Polywell Fusion, and was in the process of licensing it out? The reactors were pretty easy to build—it wouldn’t take long—not long at all—before they were everywhere.
