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InterstellarNet: Enigma — Part 1 — Epub Format
InterstellarNet: Enigma Serial
Part One: The Matthews Conundrum
Epub Format
Historian Joshua Matthews has landed a terrific new position, and with it the opportunity to write the definitive history of the Interstellar Commerce Union. In those annals, he plans to focus attention—in his opinion, long overdue—on the improbability that an interstellar community even exists.
But somehow, returning home from the party thrown to celebrate his good fortune, he has lost a month of his life. Everyone is certain he’s been away on an epic bender. And so, rather than promoted, he is disgraced, unemployed, unemployable … and unaware just how lucky he actually was.
Epub format
InterstellarNet: Enigma — Part 1 — Mobi Format
InterstellarNet: Enigma Serial
Part One: The Matthews Conundrum
Mobi (Kindle) Format
Historian Joshua Matthews has landed a terrific new position, and with it the opportunity to write the definitive history of the Interstellar Commerce Union. In those annals, he plans to focus attention—in his opinion, long overdue—on the improbability that an interstellar community even exists.
But somehow, returning home from the party thrown to celebrate his good fortune, he has lost a month of his life. Everyone is certain he’s been away on an epic bender. And so, rather than promoted, he is disgraced, unemployed, unemployable … and unaware just how lucky he actually was.
Mobi Format
InterstellarNet: Enigma — Part 1 — PDF Format
InterstellarNet: Enigma Serial
Part One: The Matthews Conundrum
PDF Format
Historian Joshua Matthews has landed a terrific new position, and with it the opportunity to write the definitive history of the Interstellar Commerce Union. In those annals, he plans to focus attention—in his opinion, long overdue—on the improbability that an interstellar community even exists.
But somehow, returning home from the party thrown to celebrate his good fortune, he has lost a month of his life. Everyone is certain he’s been away on an epic bender. And so, rather than promoted, he is disgraced, unemployed, unemployable … and unaware just how lucky he actually was.
PDF Format
InterstellarNet: Enigma — Part 2 — PDF Format
InterstellarNet: Enigma Serial
Part Two: Championship B'tok
PDF Format
Firh Glithwah, leader of the Hunter clan Arblen Ems, schemes to liberate her people from two decades of ignominious internment and isolation on a remote moon of Uranus. She will have her vengeance against the clan’s human oppressors.
Only the hated humans may be the least of her worries ….
PDF Format
InterstellarNet: Enigma — Part 2 — Epub Format
InterstellarNet: Enigma Serial
Part One: Championship B'tok
Epub Format
Firh Glithwah, leader of the Hunter clan Arblen Ems, schemes to liberate her people from two decades of ignominious internment and isolation on a remote moon of Uranus. She will have her vengeance against the clan’s human oppressors.
Only the hated humans may be the least of her worries ….
Epub Format
InterstellarNet: Enigma — Part 2 — Mobi Format
InterstellarNet: Enigma Serial
Part Two: Championship B'tok
Mobi (Kindle) Format
Firh Glithwah, leader of the Hunter clan Arblen Ems, schemes to liberate her people from two decades of ignominious internment and isolation on a remote moon of Uranus. She will have her vengeance against the clan’s human oppressors.
Only the hated humans may be the least of her worries ….
Mobi Format
Championship B’tok Kindle/Mobi Edition
Nominated for the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novelette!
The name of the game is B’tok. It’s how the alien Snakes learn military strategy. B’tok is to chess as chess is to rock-paper-scissors. You do not want to tick off Snakes — especially when aggrieved Snakes may be the least of your worries. This thrilling adventures moves the story of the InterstellarNet forward as only Edward M. Lerner could do it. This special edition includes not only the text of the Hugo-nominated story, but also the version of Championship B’tok that forms part of Ed’s thrilling new novel, InterstellarNet: Enigma, published by FoxAcre Press.
Mobi Edition.
Championship B’tok PDF Edition
Nominated for the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novelette!
The name of the game is B’tok. It’s how the alien Snakes learn military strategy. B’tok is to chess as chess is to rock-paper-scissors. You do not want to tick off Snakes — especially when aggrieved Snakes may be the least of your worries. This thrilling adventures moves the story of the InterstellarNet forward as only Edward M. Lerner could do it. This special edition includes not only the text of the Hugo-nominated story, but also the version of Championship B’tok that forms part of Ed’s thrilling new novel, InterstellarNet: Enigma, published by FoxAcre Press.
PDF Edition.
Championship B’Tok Epub Edition
Nominated for the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novelette!
The name of the game is B’tok. It’s how the alien Snakes learn military strategy. B’tok is to chess as chess is to rock-paper-scissors. You do not want to tick off Snakes — especially when aggrieved Snakes may be the least of your worries. This thrilling adventures moves the story of the InterstellarNet forward as only Edward M. Lerner could do it. This special edition includes not only the text of the Hugo-nominated story, but also the version of Championship B’tok that forms part of Ed’s thrilling new novel, InterstellarNet: Enigma, published by FoxAcre Press.
Epub Edition.
About the Series
InterstellarNet is Edward M. Lerner’s immensely ambitious tale of the founding — and the very real growing pains — of humanity’s First Contact with alien intelligence. Seen in large part through the multi-generational viewpoint of the Matthews family, the series tells the tale of how a true interstellar civilization arises.
In volume one, InterstellarNet: Origins, a faint whisper of a radio signal emerging from the darkness is all it takes to upend humanity’s culture, technology, and worldview — and that is only the beginning. For there is not just one race of extremely alien aliens out there. More and more species around more and more stars join InterstellarNet, and each new member race is a new opportunity — and a new threat.
In volume two, InterstellarNet: New Order, Edward M. Lerner tackles the question of Second Contact. The InterstellarNet civilization is based on the assumption each member species is physically isolated from all the others, and that interstellar war is therefore impossible. The distances between the stars are too great, and therefore there is not and never can be any threat of direct, in-person contact between the various InterstellarNet species. But it is the InterstellarNet itself which leads to the wreckage of that idea…
As volume three, InterstellarNet: Enigma opens, the human race is quite comfortable in its knowledge of what the other InterstellarNet races are like. However, the universe does not care if humanity is comfortable. Joshua Matthew, a distant ancestor of the first Matthews to guide policy toward alien contact, dares to ask how it all began. What starts as an interesting subject for academic research suddenly and most unexpectedly leads to the destruction of Joshua’s reputation and career. A reporter hoping to resurrect her career with one last big story is his only and unlikely ally, until a cynical intel agent, stuck in a thankless job for the crime of not trusting the enemy, starts to track down not one, but two, deadly conspiracies.
InterstellarNet: Enigma is being published as an ebook serial, in an omnibus ebook edition, and in a printed paper edition. See FoxAcre’s InterstellarNet Page for complete information and links to all the books and stories.