Jul 21, 2012

Where to get Pavonis


My SF eBook "Pavonis" is available for download from the following fine online eBook stores: (sites with reviews are marked *)

Smashwords (ePub, Mobi, PDF etc., and read online)

Amazon US (Kindle)

Amazon UK (Kindle) *

Barnes and Noble (NookBook) *

Apple (iTunes) (or search by title in the iBooks app)

Kobo

Sony

Blio

Diesel eBook Store

Versent Books

Inktera

It should also be available for Android apps from Cricket and Asus (I can't confirm that, however).

Nook, Kindle, Blio and Diesel e-reader apps are available for iPad, iPhone, Android, PC and others. See the various web sites for details.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE... I'd really appreciate honest reviews. All the above sites have places where you can do this. If you like the book it'd be great to hear but if you don't, please tell me what you thought was wrong with it. Thanks in advance.

For some reason the book summary is not showing everywhere, so here it is:

After a friend dies in suspicious circumstances, John Vaux finds himself torn from his quiet life and thrown into an adventure that carries him across the huge planet Pavonis in search of an ancient artifact that will change the world. As Vaux travels tens of thousands of kilometres following clues to the location of the artifact he's pursued for a murder he didn't commit, chased by fanatics who will destroy the artifact to protect the status quo and kill anyone who gets in their way, attacked by a 'dragon', robbed, gassed, captured, freed, and shot at. He rides (and crashes) monowheels, stows away on land trains and sea trains, steals (and crashes) a dragonfly, flies aboard a personal skyhouse and sneaks in and out of a city in a meteor crater through the sewers. Twice.

Craig Hallam, author of Greaveburn (excellent read, get it if you haven't already) wrote this wonderful synopsis on his blog:

Pavonis is a habitable planet (M-class to you Trekkies ;D) which the human race have migrated to after Earth becomes poisoned by all manner of unsurvivable pollutions. Two hundred years after they land, and the people of Pavonis have lost their old technologies when a madman destroys the ‘libraries’, a collection of all of Earth’s scientific and cultural (and everything else) knowledge. And so, in an effort to survive, the Pavonis folk have to return to steam and hydrogen power to propel their xeppelins, carriages and seaskimmers. But that’s just where the story starts. It seems that some bright spark managed to smuggle a copy of the ‘library’ away and keep it safe. But the bad guys, and their sticky little fingers, want it. When our hero’s friend thinks that he has found the library, the aforementioned bad guys have him bumped off, and so our hero steps to the plate to figure out who killed his friend and colleague, reclaim the library, and kick some bad guy behind while he’s at it. Written in the first person perspective gives Pavonis a real retro Sherlock Holmesy feel to it, like the old memoir style pieces, with action and intrigue and soem great plot points and description. Basically, it’s ace. A really fun read. And it’s Steampunk! What more could you want!? Go get it HERE, among other places.

Thanks, Craig :)

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