Jumper
By Zvi Zaks
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Dahm Origin lives on Epsathree, a giant space station with tens of thousands of people. The inside of the station is as Earthlike as technology can make it, but it isn't Earth,and when the inhabitants have to go outside and see the real Earth, the view drives some of them mad.
Zvi Zaks
I've been writing off and on literally for decades with little luck in publishing. I could blame it on my schedule as a doctor -- too many years having a 24-7 call schedule -- but plenty of other doctors have managed to combine writing and medicine. The real problem was the off and on had too much off and not enough on. Internet writers circles helped me sell a few short stories, but I really wanted to publish a book. Second only to becoming a grandfather--something I had no say about--becoming a published novelist was my biggest goal. An unrelenting series of rejections almost had me ready to give up. Then Lilly Press accepted my novel IMPLAC, an evil robot story. I was ecstatic. Even the editing process was a joy. Unfortunately, Lilly went bankrupt and it was back to the slush pile for me. At least now I knew that some professionals valued my work. "Query Tracker" forum taught me how to write a decent query, I sent out a batch of letters to small publishers, and in 2010 Eternal Press accepted A VIRTUAL AFFAIR. No ecstasy this time, but I was still happy that at age 68 I would finally have a book for sale. It's never too late to pursue your dream. The book was published on January 8, 2011. A week earlier, my son called me, "Dad, Rosemarie has gone into labor." Eight hours later, Aliana was born. I flew down to see her the day the book was published. Even though I had striven for many years to get published, at this moment, the book didn't matter. I have my priorities.
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Jumper - Zvi Zaks
Jumper
By
Zvi Zaks
Copyright 2005 by Zvi Zaks
Smashwords Edition
I was fixing a weeder in the cornfield and trying not to think about Ariela when the jumper alert sounded.
I hated that field. Its hot mugginess and swarms of gnats made me sick. Normally, I worked in an air-conditioned computer room, but since I was the brownhorn up from Earth just two years ago, I was the chump who had to go ten levels inward to the half-gravity level where the farm robot broadcast distress signals.
The vista around the crops should have calmed me. I stood at the bottom of a perfectly straight valley. Above, a flock of geese flew under cumulus clouds. To the south, majestic snow-covered mountains approached a wide, peaceful river whose bank, overhung with lazy willows, marked the end of the cornfield.
It was all fake. The mountains and geese were pan-holograms. The valley itself stretched too straight, and its sides rose too smoothly for an earth scene. Above me was no sky, but rather a ceiling that curved upward parallel to the valley and formed the floor of the next layer of our space station. Instead of the river, a 10-foot-thick rock radiation shield delimited both the cornfield and the space station itself. The disguise showed skill and ingenuity, but I and the 50 thousand other spacers in this station, this monstrous, spinning tin can named