We are delighted to be participating in the SFWA Magical Mysteries StoryBundle. For those who don’t know how StoryBundles work, a group of authors/publishers offer up their titles for a specific theme (this one is What Am I Doing Here? with the running theme of crossing dimensions or into a magical realm). Ten books are selected, four for the basic bundle, and an additional six for the bonus selection. See below for how that works.
You decide what price you want to pay. For $5 (or more, if you’re feeling generous), you’ll get the basic bundle of four books in any ebook format—WORLDWIDE.
- Ritual of the Ancients by Roan Rosser
- The Dragon’s Playlist by Laura Bickle
- Jester by Geoff Hart
- Dragon Dreams by Chris A. Jackson
If you pay at least the bonus price of just $20, you get all four of the regular books, plus six more books for a total of 10!
- Spindled by Shanna Swendson
- The Year’s Midnight by Rachel Neumeier
- The Sister Paradox by Jack Campbell
- Pawn’s Gambit by Darin Kennedy
- Sorrow and Joy by D.R. Perry
- Revise the World by Brenda W. Clough
This bundle is available only for a limited time via http://www.storybundle.com. It allows easy reading on computers, smartphones, and tablets as well as Kindle and other ereaders via file transfer, email, and other methods. You get multiple DRM-free formats (.epub, .mobi) for all books!
It’s also super easy to give the gift of reading with StoryBundle, thanks to our gift cards – which allow you to send someone a code that they can redeem for any future StoryBundle bundle – and timed delivery, which allows you to control exactly when your recipient will get the gift of StoryBundle.
The Sister Paradox by Jack Campbell
Liam Doesn’t Have a Sister… And She’s Weird!
Liam is his parents’ only child, and that’s just fine with him.
Until the day the sister-he-never-had shows up at school.
Just to make it worse, the sword-wielding Kari tells him they have an important quest to complete.
And that’s how Liam finds himself dragged into another world, facing basilisks and unicorns, cursed objects, elves, and even a dragon, all magical and dangerous, but none more so than the sister he didn’t have until that morning. A sister who turns out to be quite good with her sword, and ready to use it when faced with things like a dragon as long as her brother is at her side.
Liam begins to realize two things: it’s going to be a very long day, and having a sister can be weird. But most unsettling of all, he’s not sure he minds…
Jack Campbell (John G. Hemry) is the author of the New York Times best-selling Lost Fleet series, Genesis Fleet series, and Lost Stars series, as well as the Steampunk-meets-high-fantasy Pillars of Reality, Dragon’s Legacy, and Empress of the Endless Sea series. John/Jack wrote the scripts for Titan’s Lost Fleet Corsair comic series. His YA novel The Sister Paradox won the EPIC 2018 ebook Young Reader award. His most recent books are Boundless in the new Lost Fleet series Outlands, and The Empress of the Endless Sea trilogy (Pirate of the Prophecy, Explorer of the Endless Sea, and Fate of the Free Lands) a new steampunk/pirate/science fantasy series. John’s works are currently being published in English, Japanese, French, German, Polish, Spanish, Czech, Hungarian, Finnish, Greek, Turkish, Hebrew, and Italian, and have previously been published in Chinese and Russian. His shorter fiction includes time travel, alternate history, space opera, military SF, fantasy, and humor, and is collected in three anthologies (Ad Astra, Swords and Saddles, and Borrowed Time). John is a retired US Navy officer, who served in a wide variety of jobs including surface warfare (the ship drivers of the Navy), amphibious warfare, anti-terrorism, intelligence, and some other things that he’s not supposed to talk about. Being a sailor, he’s been known to tell stories about events which he says really happened (but cannot be verified by any independent sources). This experience has served him well in writing fiction. He lives in Maryland with his indomitable wife “S” and three great kids (two of them on the autism spectrum). www.jack-campbell.com
Overall this is a fun, albeit very short, collection, well-worth a read. -David Felts, 
As expected this author has performed with excellence. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. – John Krizo, 
Anyone who enjoys military science fiction in general, and speculations on the future of machines, and machine/human interfacing and machine intelligence specifically, will be thoroughly entertained. -David Felts,
Liked the premise of the book and thought the authors all did a good job of successfully merging fairytale tropes with steampunk ambiance, to create a whole that was greater than the sum of its (carefully geared and lubricated) parts. Anna, 
This steampunk anthology provide[s] several evenings of excellent entertainment, if you manage to put the book down before dawn. Erin Penn, 
If you like to read military science fiction this is a great book to add to your collection! 5 Stars, L. Pierce, 
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