{"id":1697,"date":"2011-09-11T17:27:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T23:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=1697"},"modified":"2017-04-24T08:49:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T14:49:37","slug":"screw-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=1697","title":{"rendered":"Screw the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/stu_cover-taynthoemer.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7536\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/stu_cover-taynthoemer.jpg?resize=188%2C300\" alt=\"stu_cover-taynthoemer\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/stu_cover-taynthoemer.jpg?resize=188%2C300 188w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/stu_cover-taynthoemer.jpg?resize=640%2C1024 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/stu_cover-taynthoemer.jpg?w=750 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><center>&#8220;This is the best book I never read!&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/GroovyBruce\/status\/112622296736333824\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Campbell<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><i>Screw the Universe<\/i>, an ebook of connected short stories by Stephen Schwegler and Nathan W. Taynthoemer is now available as an e-book at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/74192\">Smashwords<\/a> and on <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.com\/B005D2M7AQ\">Amazon<\/a>! For less than a dollar! It&#8217;s also available in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0984612777\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=jerdevpre-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399373&#038;creativeASIN=0984612777\">paperback<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jerdevpre-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0984612777&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399373\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> for more than a dollar!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSpace, the hopefully not copyrighted final frontier. Out there is a universe teeming with new and strange life, with science and probably magic and wonderment. And out there, in that inky black void, is a spaceship whose crew honestly could not give a crap.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the Zdravo. Home to a crew more concerned with getting ice cream than with saving the galaxy, under the command of a federation that grants promotions based on filthy acts performed behind only occasionally closed doors, and captained by a man whose only goal in life is to bone as many lifeforms as he can, a captain who truly wants to screw the universe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you like your science fiction serious and thought-provoking&#8230; this is not for you. If, on the other hand, you have a tendency to sit there thinking the sci-fi story you&#8217;re reading needs a slowly evolving spaceship, expendable crew members with funny names, and more dick jokes than you could shake a stick at, then  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/74192\">buy <i>Screw the Universe<\/i> right the hell now<\/a>!<br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is the best book I never read!&#8221; &#8211; Bruce Campbell Screw the Universe, an ebook of connected short stories by Stephen Schwegler and Nathan W. Taynthoemer is now available as an e-book at Smashwords and on Amazon! 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