Today I Remember

By Martin L. Shoemaker

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WordFire Press
• Release date: Aug 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9781680570267

Martin L. Shoemaker

Martin L. Shoemaker is a writer and programmer who, as a kid, told stories to imaginary friends. Fast-forward through thirty years of programming, writing, and teaching. He wrote, but he never submitted anything until his brother-in-law read a chapter and said, “That’s not a chapter. That’s a story. Send it in.” It was a runner-up for the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award and earned him a lunch with Buzz Aldrin. Programming never did that! Shoemaker has written ever since. He is the author of The Last Dance in the Near-Earth Mysteries series, and numerous short stories and novellas, including Murder on the Aldrin Express, which was reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection and in The Year’s Top Short SF Novels 4. He received the Washington Science Fiction Association’s Small Press Award for his Clarkesworld story “Today I Am Paul,” which continues in Today I Am Carey. Learn more at www.Shoemaker.Space.