eSpec Books is kickstarting the next book in the award-winning Defending the Future science fiction anthology series. Man and Machine (http://tiny.cc/DTF7) brings you 13 stories of future fiction by science fiction greats Bud Sparhawk, Brenda Cooper, Jennifer Brozek, Ronald Garner, Aaron Rosenberg, James Chambers, Nancy Jane Moore, Patrick Thomas, Jeff Young, Eric Hardenbrook, Robert E. Waters, Anton Kukal, Judi Fleming, and Danielle Ackley-McPhail.
The project has already funded and is now working it's way through a long list of stretch goals, including a custom tee shirt, bonus ebook short stories, a challenge coin, bonus fiction bundles, a mission patch, and up to three additional collections put into production.
Best of all, though, is our 100 Backer Bonus reward…all six volumes of the current Defending the Future series on ebook for free, including stories by Jack McDevitt, Jack Campbell, Lawrence M. Schoen, Maria V. Snyder, David Sherman, Andy Remic, Jeff Lyman, Charles E. Gannon, James Chambers, Deborah Teramis Christian, Anne Wilkes (Hutchison), Lisanne Norman, Laurie Gailunas, Patrick Thomas, Edward J. McFadden III, Jennifer Brozek, John C. Wright, Phoebe Wray, S.A. Bolich, Judi Fleming, Tony Ruggiero, Bud Sparhawk, Brenda Cooper, Nancy Jane Moore, Eric V. Hardenbrook, Christopher M. Hiles, James Daniel Ross, CJ Henderson, Jeff Young, Peter Prellwitz, Robert E. Waters, Mike McPhail, Kimberley Long-Ewing, Lee C. Hillman, John L. French, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Janine K. Spendlove, Vonnie Winslow Crist, and Danielle Ackley-McPhail….only twelve slots left!
