Tag: kindle

The Seven Year Laowai – now available for the Kindle!

TL1138Leave a comment

real cover

 

Available for the first time on the Kindle, the underground hit The Seven Year Laowai, an ESL teacher’s recollections of the seven years he spent teaching English in Wuhan, China.

From the alcoholism which led him there to the nasty power games that pushed him out, The Seven Year Laowai provides an unflinching look at the lives of ESL teachers in the smoggy never-never land of Wuhan.

Available here!

The story is more or less the same, only I went through and did a major revision, i.e. removing some extra crap, tightening certain scenes, and making it match up better to Little Red King.

Later on I’m going to include the opening chapter from Little Red King. Right now that’s odd because Little Red King‘s first chapter is longer than the whole Seven Year Laowai! So yeah…

Only 99 cents for the Kindle! A version for other platforms is forthcoming!

Book Review: Scarcity, by Maria Violante

TL1138Leave a comment

Our children will never know hunger, she thought. It was hunger that drove me into science, hunger that kept me working hard through each obstacle and set-back, hunger that made me the best. Without hunger, what are we?

Scientist Anselm Beck invents a machine that can copy anything. Food, money, weapons, it’s all up for grabs, except, it seems, people.

Thus comes the central question Maria Violante poses in her new short story, Scarcity: what effects would such a machine have on the economy? On the world? As Dr. Beck’s partner, Grace Kane, puts it:

No scarcity, and what do you get?

And like any good speculative sci fi, the answers are complex, and well thought-out. This could have filled a novel, but as it is, we’re left with just enough of a taste to fill in the gaps ourselves.

An intelligent, quick-read which will appeal to science fiction fans. Highly recommended.

5/5

Scarcity is available for the Kindle. For more by Maria Violante, visit her website: http://mariaviolante.com/books/