Today I Remember: And Other Tributes

Martin L. Shoemaker

Aug 2020 · WordFire +ORM

About this ebook

From a Nebula Award–nominated author, “insight and imagination infuse the stories of this eclectic collection. . . . Powerful . . . sure to draw in readers.” (Publishers Weekly)
 
In Today I Remember, Martin L. Shoemaker—award-winning author of Today I Am Carey and The Last Dance—shares stories written as tributes to the people who inspired him in his life and his writing.

• A circus acrobat relives tragedy and triumph
• Leonardo da Vinci’s greatest creation exceeds even his vision
• A manager must save a space colony from starvation
• An Alzheimer’s patient and her android caretaker experience life through her delusions
• A girl must keep her father alive after an accident on the Moon
• A Lunar rescue squad races to find a lost transport ship
• A vampire's assistant must help him to face the great detective
• A young man in Nigeria talks with the spirit of the wood
• A dying patient volunteers for an experiment with unforeseen side-effects
• A teacher must teach her students to survive the wreck of their spaceship
• A young law student returns to Haiti to rescue his dead grandfather from the Bokor

Each story begins with an explanation of how it came to be and who inspired it. These are some of Martin’s best stories—and best memories.

About the author

Martin L. Shoemaker is a programmer who writes on the side... or maybe it’s the other way around. He told stories to imaginary friends and learned to type on his brother's manual typewriter even though he couldn't reach the keys. (He types with the keyboard in his lap still today.) He couldn't imagine any career but writing fiction...until his algebra teacher said, "This is a program. You should write one of these." Fast forward 30 years of programming, writing, and teaching. He was named an MVP by Microsoft for his work with the developer community. He is an avid role-playing gamemaster, but that didn't satisfy his storytelling urge. He wrote, but he never submitted until his brother-in-law read a chapter and said, "That's not a chapter. That's a story. Send it in." It won second place in the Baen Memorial Writing Contest and earned him lunch with Buzz Aldrin. Programming never did that! Martin hasn't stopped writing (or programming) since. His novella "Murder on the Aldrin Express" was reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection and in Year's Top Short SF Novels 4. His work has appeared in Analog, Galaxy's Edge, Digital Science Fiction, Forever Magazine, Writers of the Future 31, Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF 4, Avatar Dreams, and select service garages worldwide. He received the Washington Science Fiction Association Small Press Award for his Clarkesworld story "Today I Am Paul," which also was nominated for a Nebula award and appeared in four year’s best anthologies and eight international editions. The story continues in Today I Am Carey, published by Baen Books in March 2019. His novel The Last Dance, published by 47North, was in the top 30 paid eBooks on Amazon for the month of October 2019. Learn more at http://Shoemaker.Space..