A press release from Roger MacBride Allen of FoxAcre Press:
FoxAcre Press is proud to announce the release of two science fiction classics in ebook formats: The Sins of the Fathers and Lifeboat Earth, both by Stanley Schmidt, the editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact. The titles are available for sale via the Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, and Apple Ibook online stores. Both titles are also available in trade paperback direct from FoxAcre.com, or from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other online retailers and bookstores.
The Sins of the Fathers:
Imagine a far-off, essentially invisible danger, one that is sure to wipe out all life on Earth—twenty years in the future. No one can see it or sense it, except with the use of sophisticated technology no one fully understands. One of the people bringing the warning has gone mad and killed one of his fellows, and the third is behaving oddly. How do you get the world’s leaders to trust the warning, and take such high-tech prophets of doom seriously? And does it make the choice easier or harder when some rather odd strangers suddenly arrive, offering to help—but refusing to explain their motives?
It will take every resource, strained to the limit, in order to beat the deadline, if humanity sets to work at once. Do we have what it takes to make the right choices?
Lifeboat Earth:
The job of a lifeboat is to save as many people as possible after abandoning ship, and to keep as many of them alive as possible until rescue or arrival in safe harbor. But what if Earth itself is the Lifeboat, and that safe harbor is more than two million lightyears away? And what if some of the refugees on Lifeboat Earth decided to go against the most basic law of the sea—the one that says that, on any vessel, there can only be one captain.…