2024 Black Friday/Cyber Monday Based Book Sale
From our our Aether Czar, Hans Schantz
https://basedbooksale.substack.com/p/2024-black-fridaycyber-monday-based
Once again, it’s that special time of year when based authors take a moment away from their Thanksgiving plans to band together and promote each other’s work: books without the diversity checklists, woke tropes, and cultural programming of mainstream traditionally published stories.
Bypass the cultural gatekeeping, support non-woke authors, and get yourself some great based books from both established and emerging talent for only $0.99 – many titles free – but only for one week! The sale starts today, and it runs through Tuesday December 3.
Why is the Based Book Substack needed? Because gatekeeping is real, and the mission of mainstream publishing is to push the narratives and cultural programming they want to impose on you, not to offer the entertaining and worthwhile stories you want to read. One mainstream literary agent declares she is “ONLY open to receiving queries from writers from marginalized backgrounds such as (but not limited to) those who identify as BIPOC/BAME, LGBTQ+, ND, and DIS.” Even authors of woke fiction risk cancellation if a mob of hate reviewers decide they are insufficiently “diverse” and have “culturally appropriated” otherwise woke writings.
As The Federalist observed, conservative guerrilla marketing like the ‘Big Based Book Sale’ is how we fight leftist gatekeepers.
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Participating authors range from grandmasters to emerging talent and include Mike Adamson, James Alderdice, Jordan Allen, Tony Andarian, Isaac Anderson, J.M. Anjewierden, F. Ted Atchley, Hawkings Austin, Jay Barnson, Jean Marie Bauhaus, Bryce Beattie, Daniel M. Bensen, Jonathan Blasner, M. D. Boncher, V. A. Boston, Shari Branning, C. Fenway Braxton, Natalie Brianne, Henry Brown, Misha Burnett, Jacob Calta, C.L. Carhart, Blake Carpenter, Carlos Carrasco, Kit Sun Cheah, Anne Clare, Paul Clayton, D.S. Coleman, Corey Comstock, Alexandru Constantin, J.D. Cowan, Theodore D. C. Cox, Michael DeCarolis, Jon Del Arroz, Trevor Denning, D.W. Dixon, Mel Dunay, Jack Dunn, Jennifer Elorreaga, Devon Eriksen, Warren Fahy, Declan Finn, Michael Finney, Chris Fogarty, Joshua Forbes, Zachary Forbes, Milo James Fowler, Caroline Furlong, Karl K. Gallagher, Michael Gallagher, Dale W Glaser, Christina K. Glover, Shane Gries, Shinichi Haku, Frederick Gero Heimbach, Alexander Hellene, Brian Heming, Daniel Humphreys, Steve Johnson, The Brothers K, Michael F. Kane, Michael Kayser, Joseph L. Kellogg, Black Knight, Michael Lacoy, L. Jagi Lamplighter, N.R. LaPoint, Milton Lane, William M. Lehman, Dominika Lein, David Lindsay, Abraham Lopez, Frank B. Luke, Michael P. Marpaung, TJ Marquis, Terry Wayne Martin, BP McCoppin, Jason J. McCuiston, Yakov Merkin, Carson Merrick, Mike Mollman, Diana Murray, Russell Newquist, Richard Nichols, Eric Nilles, Matthew Olney, Chad Olson, Chance Paladin, Iris Paustian, George Phillies, S. Kirk Pierzchala, Francis Porretto, James Pyles, B. N. Reele, John Reilly, Jessi L. Roberts, Debra Robic, J. Trevor Robinson, James Kenneth Rogers, Nikki Root, Sean Rowland, Denton Salle, Hans G. Schantz, Mark J Schultis, Norman X. Scozzafova, Richard Sezov, David Skinner, R.H. Snow, Jonathan Souza, Mark Sowers, Steve Stark, Garrett Stinson, Eric Tanafon, Justin M. Tarquin, Eleanor Van Dorfft, Aaron Van Treeck, Kalkin Trivedi, Michael Trust, Ursula Underwood, S.C. Vincent, Io Wallace, Erik Waag, Matt Waterhouse, David Weber, David J. West, D.L. White, Fenton Wood, and John C. Wright.
Most offerings are full-length novels. Others are shorts stories or novellas. And pricing is set by the authors, so check before you buy.
Read on to discover some great based books!
Starquest: Space Pirates Of Andromeda
by John C. Wright
Space Opera must be Great! Gallant! Gigantic! Grandiose!
This tale told by a Grandmaster vows to return the glory that was lost!
Remember the days gone by, when science fiction was fun?
Now new hope is here!
If you are weary of weak, wan, woke and wasted works, your wait is ended!
Here is an epic, as grand as any tale of old — here you will hear wonders told!
Of course there is a Space Princess, and Space Pirates galore, and an Evil Galactic Empire.
Of course there is a super-weapon known only as the Great Eye of Darkness!
Here meet Athos Lone, Ace of Star Patrol, in his one-man mission of vengeance!
The Ancient Mariner, like an iron ghost, when slain, seems to rise again!
The mysterious spymaster called Nightshadow walks in dark worlds but serves the light!
An Imperial Deathtrooper must reverse his loyalties, and fight his own clone-brothers!
Fate has set these unlikely heroes against the Four Dark Overlords
An utmost evil the unwary galaxy thinks long dead!
Can Darkness fail and Light prevail?
Read On! For All True Tales are but Part of a Greater!
Theft of Fire: Orbital Space #1 (*Note: $1.49 *)
by Devon Eriksen
Discover SciFi #5 Best Book of 2023
Dragon Award “Best Scifi” Finalist
Atomic Rockets Seal of Approval, for Excellence in Correct Science
Prometheus Award Finalist for Best Novel
“A great read — hard SF by a retired engineer.”
—John Carmack, creator of Doom
At the frozen edge of the solar system lies a hidden treasure which could spell their fortune or their destruction—but only if they survive each other first.
Marcus Warnoc has a little problem. His asteroid mining ship—his inheritance, his livelihood, and his home—has been hijacked by a pint-sized corporate heiress with enough blackmail material to sink him for good, a secret mission she won’t tell him about, and enough courage to get them both killed. She may have him dead to rights, but if he doesn’t turn the tables on this spoiled Martian snob, he’ll be dead, period. He’s not giving up without a fight.
He has a plan.
Miranda Foxgrove has the opportunity of a lifetime almost within her grasp if she can reach it. Her stolen spacecraft came with a stubborn, resourceful captain who refuses to cooperate—but he’s one of the few men alive who can snatch an unimaginable treasure from beneath the muzzles of countless railguns. And if this foulmouthed Belter thug doesn’t want to cooperate, she’ll find a way to force him. She’s come too far to give up now.
She has a plan.
They’re about to find out that a plan is a list of things that won’t happen.
Order Devon Eriksen’s Theft of Fire: Orbital Space #1 today!
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
