Agents of Repair now on Kindle

[Serendipity]

Well I've taken the plunge, after about five years or so of dawdling... my grandmother always said I belonged to the slow troop, whatever she meant by that...

I have self-published my short story Agents of Repair on Kindle.

The link to Amazon Uk Kindle - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B074F2VRC5/?tag=brite-21

The introduction to the story says it all -

Agents of Repair was written to answer the question: ‘Can a self-learning program develop on a computer without direct human help?’ When I realised how it could be done, I knew it would be dangerous to publish the method. So I deliberately left out a couple of paragraphs in this story.

Nevertheless it made for good yarn, and found a home in a small British magazine, Jupiter. I am grateful to Ian Redman, Jupiter’s editor, for giving it chance to be read in Issue 29, Thyone, July 2010. This gave me a glimmer of hope after a particularly horrendous year on a personal front.

So why self-publish Agents of Repair as a separate story now? The first reason is to act as a record of one step in the path to the genesis of C.A.T., a self-learning robo-cat, of which a series of stories have been e-published by TWB Press. The second is its timelessness. It still feels as fresh and relevant today as when it was first published seven years ago. Enjoy!

 

[Serendipity]

Many thanks Brian for copying this from the self-publishing roll of honour thread. You can tell I'm a newbie at all this business, can't you?

I hope those of you who decide to read it, will enjoy the story. I know the critics (including one Richard Horton at SFSite) did at the time when it was published in Jupiter in 2010.

 

[Brian G Turner]

Ooh, thanks for the reminder - I've got some pennies left over after getting an Amazon gift voucher for my birthday.

 

[Serendipity]

Many thanks for your encouragement, Brian.

As it was simple to do, I've added a paperback option to the kindle publication for Agents of Repair - though I do feel the price might be rather steep - they give you a minimum below which you can't price can't a paperback.

... but at least I managed to get through the whole publishing process, albeit I took the simplest options most of the time.

 

[Droflet]

Good going. Hope it does well.