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E. M. Foner AuthorBooks in Order | New Release Mailing List and Contact | Turing Test AudioBook Podcast | E. M. Foner Home Welcome to the official E. M. Foner website. My new near-future series starts with "The Good Apocalypse", the first book of the Under the Influencers series, which has been my writing focus the last year. Mailing list signup is now via email. All of the EarthCent books, including spin-offs, are listed in reading order with links here. In addition to the 23 Union Station books in EarthCent Ambassador, I've written seven books in the EarthCent Universe series about life aboard the sentient Dollnick colony ship Flower, who is currently doing a circuit between Earth and Union Station, while stopping at sovereign human communities on the loop. The second spinoff series, EarthCent Auxilliaries, starts with Freelance on the Galactic Tunnel Network and is now six books. The EarthCent Metaverse series spin-off series starts with Bits of Anarchy. My other books include the AI Diaries , which starts on current-day Earth with Turing Test, follows the team to a new world in Human Test, follows with Magic Test, and ends with Mentor Test back on Earth. I also wrote a standalone fantasy, Meghan's Dragon. Just because SciFi has interstellar travel doesn't mean that SciFi writers have good reasons for people and aliens to go anywhere, other than to fight with each other. I don't write about wars, and in my EarthCent series, commerce takes central stage. But the Influencers series is set in a galaxy where superintelligence has been banned, and the reason the aliens invade Earth is to ensure our compliance. The Influencers universe has several features that I really enjoyed writing, from its setting in a rural upstate area, to the interstellar shortcut (physics trick) only working for ships that mass at least a few hundred million tons. What that means is that the only interstellar communication is by mail, mail carried on these giant ships with their millions or more inhabitants, so delivery doesn't happen in a hurry. It's interesting how that changes business and everything else with time dependency, like betting on sporting events light years away. But the best feature is how the AI ban is enforced by interstellar tourism. Nobody has the right to close their planet to tourists, because that could be a sign that a society has created superintelligence and fallen under its control. And unlike my EarthCent series, where humans can at best eat Vergallian vegan, in the Influencer series, humans have garbage-can digestion and can eat more food native to other worlds than most. I'm experimenting with taking titles out of Kindle Unlimited and offering them as free books for reading in the browser or as download. I hate installing apps on the phone because I don't like giving up all the rights they insist on, so being able to read in a web browser than saves my place works for me:-) You can also download ePub or AZW3 (Kindle) files if you want to fool around with transfering them to your eBook reader or coaxing AI into narrating them for you. About the author E. M. Foner (1963 - ) is an American science fiction author. He was born in Springfield, MA and is currently a digital nomad. Foner is best known for the 22 book EarthCent Ambassador series, also known as the Union Station books for the location of the embassy. The expanded EarthCent saga is up to 40 books with five spin-offs. Foner writes science fiction without wars or potty-mouth heroes. His characters; aliens, humans, and artificial intelligence, are the real stars of the books as they navigate life in a version of the future where the author wishes he could live. Foner holds a BSEE and an MSEE, and spent more than a decade writing bestselling computer troubleshooting and repair books under another name.
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