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Scarcity
Twenty-one to forty-five year old armed forces members, police officers, and intelligence agents (our intended protectors) are going missing everywhere. Seemingly 'taken' out of strange agrarian communes popping up all over the planet. Now, Agent Bart, fresh out of retirement, is determined to solve the mystery of these disappearances and get his people back.
- GenresDystopia
124 pages, Paperback
Published July 1, 2024
About the author
David J. Winters
9 booksI'm a fiction writer with an interest in straightforward genre fiction, upmarket genre fiction, and fiction that fits a definite subgenre, but that also possesses food-for-thought speculative elements. In addition to fiction writing, I'm a mathematical Logician and high school math teacher.
I grew up in rural Manitoba, Canada, in a town called Dauphin. My primary (though unpaid) occupation has always been writing, so I thought it a good idea to embrace independent publishing - as both the published and the publisher. I say, 'publisher', because I'm also the founder (and only-guy-there-right-now) of SubGenre Publishers.
SubGenre Publishers specializes in ‘At-Least’ genre fiction novels: literary works that fit a definite Subgenre at least, but may constitute a variety of types of fiction novels beyond that. Want a balls-to-the-wall pirates-in-space melodrama? We can do that. Want a philosophical meditation on institutional ethics pseudo-embodied in a virtual reality AI vigilante run amok? We can do that too. Sky's the limit beyond genre.
At present, SubGenre is making a name for itself as a publisher of quality genre fiction by releasing a few publications a year from a small group of authors. Soon, we will expand our business to provide publication services like editing, formatting, and graphic design. Last, we expand to accepting manuscripts from self-publishing writers interested in working with us.
I grew up in rural Manitoba, Canada, in a town called Dauphin. My primary (though unpaid) occupation has always been writing, so I thought it a good idea to embrace independent publishing - as both the published and the publisher. I say, 'publisher', because I'm also the founder (and only-guy-there-right-now) of SubGenre Publishers.
SubGenre Publishers specializes in ‘At-Least’ genre fiction novels: literary works that fit a definite Subgenre at least, but may constitute a variety of types of fiction novels beyond that. Want a balls-to-the-wall pirates-in-space melodrama? We can do that. Want a philosophical meditation on institutional ethics pseudo-embodied in a virtual reality AI vigilante run amok? We can do that too. Sky's the limit beyond genre.
At present, SubGenre is making a name for itself as a publisher of quality genre fiction by releasing a few publications a year from a small group of authors. Soon, we will expand our business to provide publication services like editing, formatting, and graphic design. Last, we expand to accepting manuscripts from self-publishing writers interested in working with us.
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June 8, 2025
Reading the blurb I thought this would be a great read. I found the story its self a little tedious at times, I think it could do with a better edit/proof as there are good ideas but with far to high levels of angst for me to find really enjoyable. Also it seems to repeat a lot which is never fun.
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