Location: United States
Member Since:
Sep. 26, 2012
Steve Smith
Biography
A lover of the desert and all things western as a result of growing up in El Paso, Texas, Steve Smith moved to Southeast Arizona after forty years in the cold winters of Michigan. He lives on a “ranchette” surrounded by mountains with wife Peggy, several cats and a dog, where he is polishing several novels, short stories and a humorous memoir of his peacetime Army days.
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Where to find Steve Smith online
Website: http://stevesmithetc.com
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-smith-54b04630
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Where to buy in print
Books
HUMANG-Machinosus Inimicus Rex and the Kid from W.H.O.A.
by Steve Smith
Price:
$1.98 USD.
Words: 66,110.
Language:
English.
Published: July 11, 2022
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Categories:
Fiction » Adventure » General, Fiction » Children’s books » Historical / United States / 19th Century
Humang is a sci/fi tale of the uncertainty and threat posed by two Artificial Intelligence entities called Cybots who have mastered human communication and are soon to be set free by the NSA to work their solutions on the various issues ravaging our earth.
Slightly Bent/ A Dirty Way to Die and other stories
by Steve Smith
Price:
$2.00 USD.
Words: 69,840.
Language:
English.
Published: September 19, 2021
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Categories:
Fiction » Adventure » Action
Story themes run from mystery to satire (the demise of a persistent mime), to war, to time travel (a love story), to a lethal duel in an Arizona desert, along with an autobiographical story of a car of German manufacture that nearly exsanguinated our bank account. Humor, bloodletting, the occasionally surreal, and grim drama unfold in these Pages.
Humang
by Steve Smith
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 65,800.
Language:
English.
Published: June 26, 2021
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Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » Apocalyptic, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller
A novel of Artificial intelligence and its coming hegemony over our society and possibly mankind itself that explores the affect that AIs let loose among us can have if governed by their own wacky hyper-logical value systems, incapable of relating to human emotions, and sensing that humans are little more than destructive children who must be contained . . . or worse.
Tales from the Underside
by Steve Smith
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 53,920.
Language:
English.
Published: June 23, 2021
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Categories:
Fiction » Young adult or teen » Adventure
Darkly imagined adventures for readers with a quirky sense of humor and a jaded reading palate, including nature stories and some with a touch of fantasy and Sci/fi.
The Big Schnitzel~Outflanking the Corps with the Coffee-call Commandos of the KAB
by Steve Smith
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 58,050.
Language:
English.
Published: October 13, 2018
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir
For veterans of the fifties and sixties, this book will revive memories of duty stations where boredom and aggravation fought for dominance with the wacky humor inescapable in the living comic strip that was the Peacetime Army.
Close Enough For Jazz~ Out of Step with Sgt Protzinger's Flying Beer-hall Brass Band and Noise Machine
by Steve Smith
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 87,240.
Language:
English.
Published: October 13, 2018
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Music » Military & Marches
The Kitzingen Area Band was once called "a pustulent excrescence on the rigid rump of military propriety." A sax player explained: "That means we're a pimple on the Army's ass." Stationed in Bavaria in 1960, our behavior was less sternly military than wacky frat-house. So read on and find out why we were referred to post-wide as "The Fucking Band," a name that we bore with a sneaking pride.
Single Striper: A Sideways Odyssey through the Peacetime Army
by Steve Smith
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 78,120.
Language:
English.
Published: November 14, 2016
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs
For military veterans of every era, especially those who served in the fifties and sixties, this comical, irreverent look back at the vanished peacetime Army will revive those zany memories of Basic Training and duty stations where humor was an enlisted man's only weapon against the boredom and aggravation inescapable in days crawling with tedium and mind-numbing details called chickenshit.
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