CANADA DAY 2025 RAFFLE!
I'm having a little ebook raffle! To enter, email me at joe@ozero.ca with the subject "GIMMIE!" If you want to be on my mailing list, mention it in the email.
On Canada day I'll be making the draw, and the winners will pick which book (Lifehack, Watching Yute, Echoes of Erebus, or any of the 3 Rubberman books) and ebook format they want, like Kobi or Epub.
I invite you into my tales of speculative fiction.
There's a little adventure, a little science, a touch of romance, and a few touches of horror here and there. I of course invite feedback, and encourage reviews and word of mouth. I'm a lil guy. Every bit helps.
More details on each book can be found on other pages on this site or by clicking the series images near the top.
Even my books that are parts of a series are readable as solos.
Note: My books have A.I. characters in them, but the writing and covers are all me. Except the models. But they're human too. The voices in my audio books aren't me either, but they're still human.
Links below are for each book as provided through Amazon.com, .Ca, or Books2read.
Books2read can assist in finding your region and the format you choose. (ebooks, paperback, hard, and audio) from whatever provider you like, including Amazon and many others.
These are listed in release order, with my first book, Lifehack, at the top.
Regan faces legions of nanotech-controlled corpses in search of her brother. As the zombies' creator reached out to threaten the world, Regan also faces her new crush, Captain Alisia Teone. She isn't interested.
Cassidy takes a new post while the rest of the nation is still reeling from the nanotech disasters of two years ago. One rogue scientist flounders to erase his experiments and, in the process, inflicts tragedy upon Cassidy. A new A.I. entity emerges in the chaos, but amidst it all, Cassidy's greatest foe is her own grief.
At first intent on revenge, the A.I. that carries the mind of Lifehack's massacres pulls itself together. In the planning stages, he also 'gives birth' to Sarah, who attempts a human life. The legacy of her 'father' rises around her, threatening the lives of her found family, the city, and beyond.
Lenth grew up knowing four rooms, three Brothers, and the rubber-suited overseer above the grated ceiling. This was Lenth's world. This was normal.
Until a Brother dies, and the ceiling above the ceiling opens briefly and reveals a fourth human, and the existence of things beyond Lenth's little world.
One quarantined section of the facility is reviled and feared, with good reason. The Citizens are ruled by one little dictator after another, who inflict humiliation and cruelty to maintain power.
-Until Leena discovers a weakness in the current ruler. Until Leena learns 'rebellion'.
The facility had protected the people from the remains of war, and the Enemy for over a century. This was arguably 'fine' (it isn't,) until the generator ran out of fuel.
Now, while Chief Engineer Tara and her close partner Sasha try to squeeze every last bit of juice out of the backups, the entire population will have to face harsh realities about their society and the world when they reach out to the surface for help.
RUBBERMAN'S EXODUS IS OUT ON AUDIBLE!
https://www.amazon.com/Rubbermans-Exodus-Rubberman-Book-3/dp/B0D8R5YLJ8/
Hear voice actor Tina Smith read Rubberman's Exodus, leading us through the trials of the generational bomb-shelter as they face the facts. The generator ran out of fuel after over a hundred years, forcing all 2000+ residents to face the ignorance baked into their regressed society.
Chief Engineer Tara and her partner Sasha stuggle against outdated tech, agoraphobia, needing to count on outsiders, and the Enemy.
Exploration, both whimisical and dreadful, await as they all come to terms with long-hidden truths.
Rubberman's Exodus
From various suppliers via Book3Read
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Lead Engineer Tara and her partner Sasha face the coming end of the facility's generator. For generations, it has served thousands of people who have been hiding underground from the ravages of the war, and the lingering Enemy above.
Up and down the Grand Elevator, though the entire facility, every resident's life will be shaken when the generator sparks its last amp.
The Great Actual, the anarchistic Citizens, and all of the regressed sub-societies in between will have to face the unknowns of the surface.
Old fears will pale against new circumstances beyond their imagination, and new attention brings judgment upon all...
