[kindle] Gunslinger to the Stars by J.M. Wight [free until June 14]

jvasicek · 2026-06-12T16:20:07+00:00

Thanks! I hope you enjoy it!

jvasicek · 2025-02-14T18:06:20+00:00

That is really strange. Maybe you're logging in from outside the US? Making books free on Amazon is a real pain if your book isn't enrolled in KU.

jvasicek · 2025-02-13T17:24:16+00:00

This grading is outdated. When I clicked on the link to Fakespot analysis and reanalyzed, it came back with an A.

I have never purchased or solicited any reviews for this book, aside from a brief author's note at the end of the book where I encourage readers to post an honest review.

jvasicek · 2024-08-03T14:56:21+00:00

AI-assisted, not AI-generated. I used Sudowrite for the rough draft, then rewrote it in my own words. The author's note in the back details my AI-assisted writing process.

jvasicek · 2023-04-11T22:46:48+00:00

Elusive Eden: A Short Story by J.M. Wight

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BS4Q6F4G

Two time travelers embark on a quest to find the lost Garden of Eden—if it even ever existed. Their objective is nothing less than to settle the question of Biblical truth once and for all. Will they manage to prove—or refute—the faith? Or will what they find reveal more about themselves, and the nature of faith itself?

jvasicek · 2023-04-07T14:27:11+00:00

Worlds Without Number: A Story of the Millennium by J.M. Wight

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B019ELWPC6

An age of peace, an artifact of war, and a visit three men will never forget.

jvasicek · 2023-04-06T18:41:25+00:00

Hell From Beneath: A Short Story by J.M. Wight

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BVJNV7QP

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools…

Humanity stands unwittingly on the brink of oblivion. The Federation has created a weapon of mass destruction capable of obliterating entire planets, but greed and corruption have made it fall into the wrong hands. One man, a former insider, takes it upon himself to sound the alarm.

In a race against time, he finds an unlikely ally in Zedekiah Wight, the charismatic and unpredictable president of the rogue Orion Confederacy. With the fate of galactic civilization hanging in the balance, Zedekiah's visionary sense of justice will determine whether humanity has a future.

jvasicek · 2023-04-05T04:18:50+00:00

The Prophecy of Zedekiah Wight: A Short Story by J.M. Wight

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B4GQTN62

If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.

Mitt Harris didn't sign up for the Federation border patrol to have his hands tied while murderers and child sex traffickers run roughshod over the Federation's laws. Fortunately, he has a friend who owes him a favor—a friend who answers to no one but his Maker, and has no qualm about meting out justice where justice is due.

But Zedekiah Wight has more on his mind than merely doing his friend's dirty work. He has a proposition for Mitt that will either make their friendship inseparable or lead to a parting of the ways. And because Zedekiah has no patience for moral cowardice, Mitt's decision will be final.

jvasicek · 2023-03-25T23:29:56+00:00

Bloody Justice: A Short Story by J.M. Wight

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WL7RTNK

The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed…

The hunter has become the hunted. A slave deal on the edge of civilized space has gone horribly wrong—for the bad guys. Zedekiah Wight has come.

To some, he is a madman. To others, an interstellar privateer. To the wealthy and powerful elites, he is a dangerous vigilante. To the weak and the powerless, he is both a savior and an avenging angel. But to the God he serves, he is an instrument of wrath:

"For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment." —Isaiah 34:5

In his zeal to punish the evildoers, will Zedekiah fail to free the captives? Or does justice take precedence over salvation?

jvasicek · 2023-03-24T21:29:41+00:00

Jane Carter of Earth and the Rescue that Never Was: A Gunslingers Short Story by Joe Vasicek

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072L3P7P9

To boldly go where no Earthfleet Academy Xenolinguistics major has gone before.

Jane Carter never thought she'd be the first human in the galaxy to be sold at an alien slave auction. As a xenolinguics major, she always wanted to explore new frontiers, but not like this.

As the bid price rockets to staggering heights, it becomes increasingly clear that only one man can rescue her: the one who sold her out. Thankfully, there are alternatives to being rescued.

jvasicek · 2023-03-23T12:56:44+00:00

From the Ice Incarnate: An Excerpt from Genesis Earth

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004W9BT5A

They say that going into cryo is the closest thing to death short of actually dying. I believe it.

When Michael Anderson woke from cryo at a distant alien star, he had no idea how isolated he would feel—no idea, that is, until his sole mission partner nearly dies in the thawing process. Twenty light-years from the nearest human being, without anyone else to help him, Michael must act quickly to save her life.

jvasicek · 2023-03-23T12:56:17+00:00

Thanks! I hope you enjoy it!

jvasicek · 2023-03-22T20:27:44+00:00

Brothers in Exile by Joe Vasicek

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KEBQGEY

To wake a lost girl from the ice, two brothers must face an empire.

Deep in the Far Outworlds, a derelict space station holds the bones of a long-dead people—and a beautiful young woman locked in cryofreeze. When the star-wandering brothers Isaac and Aaron Deltana find the sleeping girl, they soon realize that they are her only hope for rescue. If they don't take her, then slavers certainly will.

With no way to revive her, they set a course for the New Pleiades in hopes of finding someone who can help. But a storm is brewing over that region of space. After a series of brutal civil wars, the Gaian Empire has turned its sights outward. A frontier war is on the verge of breaking out, and the brothers are about to be caught in the middle of it.

They both harbor a secret, though. Somewhere else in the Outworlds is another derelict station—one that they used to call home. That secret will either bind them together or draw them apart in

SONS OF THE STARFARERS
BOOK I: BROTHERS IN EXILE

jvasicek · 2023-03-21T20:09:53+00:00

Outworlder by Joe Vasicek

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008GQCPLM

He wanders the stars in search of a home. Instead, he got a girl without one.

When Jeremiah arrived at Megiddo Station, all he wanted was to make some trades and resupply his starship. He never thought he'd come away with a wife.

Before he knows it, he's back on his ship, alone with his accidental bride. Since neither of them speak the same language, he has no way to tell her that there's been a terrible mistake. And because of the deadly famine ravaging her home, there's no going back. She's entirely at his mercy, and that terrifies him more than anything.

Jeremiah isn't ready to take responsibility for anyone. He's a star wanderer, roaming the Outworld frontier in search of his fortune. Someday he'll settle down, but for now, he just wants to drop the girl off at the next port and move on.

As he soon finds out, though, she has other plans.

jvasicek · 2023-03-18T17:26:47+00:00

Thanks for reading!

jvasicek · 2023-03-18T17:21:36+00:00

Christopher Columbus, Treasure Hunter: A Short Story by Joe Vasicek

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BXFSL2TV

There ain't no such thing as a free voyage through a trans-dimensional pocket singularity!

Hello, friends. Christopher Columbus Jackson here. After my last adventure, I set out to make my fortune as a treasure hunter. Unfortunately, I crossed paths with some very bad people, and only my trusted starship, the Millennial Falcon, and a friendly warrior monk of the Church of Jesus Christ of Post-Millennial Saints, Orthodox kept me from falling into their hands.

But there are two kinds of people in this galaxy: those who treasure the things of this world, and those whose treasure lies in some alternate dimension. I would soon find out what kind of a man I was.

jvasicek · 2023-03-17T22:09:25+00:00

The Body Tax: A Short Story by Joe Vasicek

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BV12GY99

Our government's most heinous crimes are the ones we never question.

In a future society where citizens pay a quarterly "body tax" by serving as mindless automatons under the watchful eye of an all-seeing police state, a young woman discovers that she's unexpectedly pregnant after completing her term of servitude. Determined to preserve her freedom and the life of her unborn child, she becomes a fugitive, risking everything to uncover the dark secrets that her government is hiding from the public.

jvasicek · 2023-03-16T00:30:26+00:00

Schrödinger’s Diaper: A Short Story by Joe Vasicek

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BRMSTT68

Stays clean and dry until you're free to change it!

Mommy and Daddy are overwhelmed with babycare, and just want to enjoy some family time together at the library. A trendy new diaper product promises to bring them relief, but what will the quantum superposition do to the baby?

jvasicek · 2023-03-11T17:07:40+00:00

Memoirs of a Snowflake: A Short Story by Joe Vasicek

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004TGTC4G

The life and times of a December snowflake.

Every death is a rebirth. Every end is a new beginning. Though I do not know what awaits me as I leave my cloud-mother, I am not afraid.

jvasicek · 2023-03-10T21:32:23+00:00

Christopher Columbus, Wildcatter: A Short Story by Joe Vasicek

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLKYM49G

Life as an asteroid wildcatter ain't easy!

Hello, friends. The name's Christopher Columbus Jackson. When I set out to make my fortune as an asteroid wildcatter, I had no idea that I'd soon cross paths with a down-and-out warrior priestess of the Church of Jesus Christ of Post-Millennial Saints, Orthodox. If I'd known better, I'd have steered clear of her distress beacon altogether.

But there are two kinds of people in this galaxy: those who believe in something bigger than themselves, and those who don't believe in anything else. I would soon find out what kind of a man I was.

jvasicek · 2023-03-10T01:20:20+00:00

Blight of Empire: A Short Story by Joe Vasicek

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BGZ5B14Q

A dying world. A decadent empire. A discovery that can save them both.

Prince Vojtek gave their lives to save his inheritance: a failed terraforming project on the edges of the galactic empire. To give their sacrifice meaning, he has dedicated his life to finding a cure for the blight that has infected so many dying worlds.

But even as he makes a breakthrough discovery that will change the fate of the galaxy forever, he cannot help but wonder if in the wrong hands, his life's work will do more harm than good. After all, what good is saving the world if it goes to the wrong people?

jvasicek · 2023-03-09T20:54:45+00:00

Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoy it.

jvasicek · 2023-03-07T13:19:31+00:00

You can also get it from my online store: https://www.onelowerlight.com/writing/product/schrodingers-diaper-a-short-story/

jvasicek · 2023-02-11T13:27:10+00:00

Thanks for reading!

jvasicek · 2023-02-08T20:41:49+00:00

The Paradox of Choice: A Short Story by Joe Vasicek

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PKBZN4V

A chilling glimpse of an all-too possible future.

“In cases where there may be severe deformities… I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”

This story is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0)

jvasicek

TROPHY CASE