Blue Collar Space

Written by Martin L. Shoemaker

Narrated by Sarah Naughton, JD Jackson, Will Damron and Coleen Marlo

The future doesn’t just happen… Somebody has to build it.

Martin L. Shoemaker, author of “Today I Am Paul,” presents stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary work. Planning, exploring, constructing… living and growing and dying… across the Solar System.

Includes these award-winning stories:

• “Scramble” (second place, Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award, 2012)
• “Unrefined” (third place, Writers of the Future, 2014)
• “Racing to Mars” (first place, Analog Analytical Laboratory award, 2016)

Plus seven more stories!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Release date: Aug 4, 2020
• ISBN: 9781799771012

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.