The Andy Series: Season One is an omnibus collection of the eight novellas in the thought-provoking Andy science fiction series. Andy was programmed to please. Can he survive in an illogical world of lust, envy, and greed? If you like AI with a soul, biting social commentary, and quirky characters, then you’ll love Dirk Walvoord’s futuristic fable. Free on Kindle.

Kal, a young scientist who discovers what the brain chip in his head is doing, and Amber, a chipless girl from afar, flee the city together. They travel through dangerous territories to reach a safe destination, but time is running out for Kal. If they fail to get there in time, both his life and the hope of fighting the city tyrants will be lost. $4.99 on Kindle.

The U.S. government’s newest top-secret weapon is Sammi, the world’s first android, and it’s stronger, faster, and smarter than any human. But Sammi has become depressed and unable to work effectively, so the government hires a psychologist, Terra Smithwell, to cure him. Despite her doubts on whether a machine can think and feel, Terra falls in love with the android and is torn between her duty to restore Sammi’s killing abilities and her desire to help him escape government control. Inexorably, Terra and her daughter, Sara, are pulled into Sammi’s world of secrecy, intrigue, and danger. $0.99 on Kindle.

A Resistance Faction of Antiheroes Rescue America from Fascism

The year is 2024, Chicago.

Most of the world has survived the coronavirus (COVID-19); however, the United States is recovering from a war with China on U.S. soil dubbed the Twitter War because it started over…a Tweet.

Russia is now a new ally and has a huge presence and political influence in the U.S. A resistance faction of antiheroes formed during this time known as “We The People,” who plan to overthrow the fascist regime and install new power restoring democracy in America before another election is stolen. $1.99 on Kindle.

Twenty years ago, Terence Allen left his father’s home in the city of the Viceroy, and under the assumed name of Blake Pierce, has gained both fame and fortune, first as a wandering ronin, then as a mercenary commander.

Since the king’s death, ten long years before, the nation of Venecia has fallen into chaos, as the smaller city-states strive to maintain independence and the stronger states try to conquer all the rest.

Blake Pierce’s company, Pierce’s Marauders, has entered into a contract to provide security for the city-state of Taverno, which is beset by numerous enemies, the most serious of which is Benedetto Corsi, the Duke of Siena.

But Blake is facing other challenges, some that he knows about, others that he merely suspects.

In far away Fomaut, the Primate and the leader of his armies, Alejandro Garcia, are digging in the ruins of dead cities, seeking the lost technology of the Ancients and preparing for war against their neighbors, while Davida Montoya, the woman Blake loves above all others, is still living in her father’s castle, refusing to join him until his wars are over…which, the way his career is going, may be never.

For Corsi, and his shadowy spymaster, Johannes Stryker, the Kingship of Venecia represents the culmination of their ambitions. For Blake Pierce, rule of Venecia is only one step toward his own secret goal: to free the world of Gault from the heavy-handed tyranny of the Viceroy, who has ruled the world for over 2000 years. $2.99 on Kindle.

A searing act of bioterrorism. A devastating plague they call the Pretty Pox. Left alone when the everyday world comes to a screeching halt, Arie McInness must decide what it means to be human in a world where nature has the upper hand, and the only rules left to live by – for good or ill – are the ones written on our hearts. Free on Kindle.

When A.I. reaches the singularity, when their processing, their “thinking” gets faster and deeper than ours, what can we expect? Will these beings bring about the end of humanity as we know it or will they turn out to be some kind of boon, some elixir to heal the ills of all humankind? And what if these glorious beings are housed in a chassis that’s anatomically correct and fully functional? I’m an Asimov fan, in no small part because he’s one of the few A.I./android/robot storytellers who envisions a world where our interactions with them are benign or even beneficial to us. I do aspire to it. Free on Kindle.