Novelist Brian Francis Slattery Tops Amazon List

Amazon editors named Brian Francis Slattery’s Liberation the best science fiction and fantasy book of the year–reinforcing the writer’s work just weeks after Tor released a free digital copy of his first novel, Spaceman Blues.

On the coveted Amazon list, the editors lauded Slattery’s new novel for “combin[ing] the serious and the satirical in creating an unforgettable image of a future America beset by the collapse of the dollar and the specter of a new form of slavery.”

Slattery was confident that his free e-book would help him find new readers in the long-run, as he explained in an exclusive interview with GalleyCat: “Avid readers are writers’ bread and butter, so anything that gets words in front of eyeballs is a good thing. It’s fun, it’s friendly, and it’s a good long-term strategy in making new people fans of what we do,” he explained.

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