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Gaia's Wasp - Text-Only Version: Sci-Fi too rough for nice mommies
So you want to build Galt's Gulch, a truly free society. Very nice, but if you actually let anyone in, Galt's Gulch will stay free for about ten minutes. How will you build men worthy to live in Libertarian paradise?
Luci Dark is the product of a grand experiment. In a leap of faith, humans alter their brains, forcing their subconscious minds to recognize everyone as their own children.
Now they love everyone instinctively, as a mother loves her son. It turns men into shining knights, and women into their adoring cheerleaders.
It also makes them easy targets, which is why they altered their brains a little further, because they knew sometimes polite wouldn't work, and they would need savage violence.
But they didn't know how savage.
This is the first book of a series that culminates with not one but two Prometheus Award finalists, the premier literary prize for Libertarian Sci-Fi.
This is the Plain-Text Version
If you have a color Kindle Fire, or you can afford the hardcover, you might enjoy the Feelustrated version more.About the 2nd Edition
Imagine you had to choose the ugliest two of your ten children and strangle them. It's harsh, but afterward, your family is more attractive.
That's the story of this 2nd edition. Dr. Jerk's first novel finally got the brutal editing it needed. Now it's shorter and easier, though it cannot match the dizzying standard set by the later books in the series.
A New Level of Sci-Fi Physics
Gaia's Wasp contains the only realistic sci-fi depiction of an interstellar photon rocket. The extensive math is relegated to the series website, but the calculations inform the story with realistic numbers for details like fuel consumption, the equilibrium temperature of the forward shield, exhaust energy, and dozens of other numbers mentioned in passing.
About the Series
1: Gaia's Wasp: This origin book, and Dr. Jerk's first novel.
2. Dandelion Slap: The most beautiful. The color hardcover is priced as a loss-leader to hook you.
3. Sainthood in Sixty Seconds: The short one.
4. A Beast Cannot Feign: The rude one, and a Prometheus Award finalist. (Dr. Jerk eventually learned to write.)
5. God's Girlfriend: The last one, and also a Prometheus Award finalist. (Did we mention his writing improved?)
About the Author
Dr. Insensitive Jerk is the bastard lovechild of Robert Heinlein and Ayn Rand. Bob and Ayn couldn't afford the scandal, so they paid George Carlin $240 to raise the boy as his own son. At age three, the boy ran away and secured a job in the circus by convincing them he was a midget.
Circus life taught the boy how to survive in academia. In time, Mr. Jerk led a coterie of unwary University of Chicago professors to believe they had found the secret to winning the ring toss. They bet everything, which is how Mr. Jerk forced them to award him a PhD in Financial Economics in a 3 AM, locked-basement ceremony. Now Dr. Jerk's scholarly papers have been cited over a thousand times, which he thinks is hilarious.
What Critics are Saying About Gaia's Wasp"Seriously? Sci-Fi for pervy Christians? There can't be many of those."
-- The oil-change guy
"Gaia's Wasp bounds forward with a predator's grace, propelled by a muscular butt as hard as her heart.
Luci Dark is the product of a grand experiment. In a leap of faith, humans alter their brains, forcing their subconscious minds to recognize everyone as their own children.
Now they love everyone instinctively, as a mother loves her son. It turns men into shining knights, and women into their adoring cheerleaders.
It also makes them easy targets, which is why they altered their brains a little further, because they knew sometimes polite wouldn't work, and they would need savage violence.
But they didn't know how savage.
This is the first book of a series that culminates with not one but two Prometheus Award finalists, the premier literary prize for Libertarian Sci-Fi.
This is the Plain-Text Version
If you have a color Kindle Fire, or you can afford the hardcover, you might enjoy the Feelustrated version more.About the 2nd Edition
Imagine you had to choose the ugliest two of your ten children and strangle them. It's harsh, but afterward, your family is more attractive.
That's the story of this 2nd edition. Dr. Jerk's first novel finally got the brutal editing it needed. Now it's shorter and easier, though it cannot match the dizzying standard set by the later books in the series.
A New Level of Sci-Fi Physics
Gaia's Wasp contains the only realistic sci-fi depiction of an interstellar photon rocket. The extensive math is relegated to the series website, but the calculations inform the story with realistic numbers for details like fuel consumption, the equilibrium temperature of the forward shield, exhaust energy, and dozens of other numbers mentioned in passing.
About the Series
1: Gaia's Wasp: This origin book, and Dr. Jerk's first novel.
2. Dandelion Slap: The most beautiful. The color hardcover is priced as a loss-leader to hook you.
3. Sainthood in Sixty Seconds: The short one.
4. A Beast Cannot Feign: The rude one, and a Prometheus Award finalist. (Dr. Jerk eventually learned to write.)
5. God's Girlfriend: The last one, and also a Prometheus Award finalist. (Did we mention his writing improved?)
About the Author
Dr. Insensitive Jerk is the bastard lovechild of Robert Heinlein and Ayn Rand. Bob and Ayn couldn't afford the scandal, so they paid George Carlin $240 to raise the boy as his own son. At age three, the boy ran away and secured a job in the circus by convincing them he was a midget.
Circus life taught the boy how to survive in academia. In time, Mr. Jerk led a coterie of unwary University of Chicago professors to believe they had found the secret to winning the ring toss. They bet everything, which is how Mr. Jerk forced them to award him a PhD in Financial Economics in a 3 AM, locked-basement ceremony. Now Dr. Jerk's scholarly papers have been cited over a thousand times, which he thinks is hilarious.
What Critics are Saying About Gaia's Wasp"Seriously? Sci-Fi for pervy Christians? There can't be many of those."
-- The oil-change guy
"Gaia's Wasp bounds forward with a predator's grace, propelled by a muscular butt as hard as her heart.
566 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 2, 2024
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