I’m going to be offline a lot this week, heavy heavy work week, and putting finishing touches on next book.

In the meantime, I’ve put on sale the first book I put out. It’s been fairly well received and has lots of kudos from folks you may recognize.

Share it with whoever you think may enjoy what Larry Niven called, “A good combination of science and adventure fiction.” I guarantee it won’t be this price for more than this week.

If interested, here are a few places where you can get it:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FNRP9CF

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/primordial-threat-ma-rothman/1128933477?ean=2940162132196

https://books.apple.com/us/book/primordial-threat/id1400839738

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/primordial-threat

https://play.google.com/store/books/details/M_A_Rothman_Primordial_Threat?id=bO2ODwAAQBAJ

“Primordial Threat is a good combination of science and adventure fiction.”

  • Larry Niven, New York Times bestselling author

“With Primordial Threat, Michael Rothman puts the OMG back in Science Fiction! Fascinating characters, an Asimov-sized plot, and lots of intrigue. Michael Rothman delivers. Chilling Science Fiction from a new Arthur C. Clarke. Movie-ready SF from a new master!”

  • William C. Dietz, New York Times bestselling author

“Written by one who really knows the science, PRIMORDIAL THREAT zips along–a hard sf treat.”

  • Gregory Benford, New York Times bestselling author of TIMESCAPE.

“Michael Rothman’s PRIMORDIAL THREAT is a big disaster novel — maybe the biggest, with the end of the solar system in play. There goes the neighborhood! Filled with innovative science and big-scale action, it shows humanity in crisis, and humanity at its best.”

  • Kevin J. Anderson, New York Times bestselling author of BLOOD OF THE COSMOS

“For nail-biting science fiction thrillers, look no further than one of Rothman’s stories. Sit back and enjoy the ride.”

  • Larry Correia, New York Times bestselling author.

“It has been a long time since I’ve seen a novel with big mind-blowing hard SF ideas like this. It reminds me very much of Asimov, and that is very welcome indeed.”

  • David Farland, New York Times Bestselling, Award-winning Author

“Who says hard science fiction is dead? The field is safe and sound in the hands of Michael Rothman. Real science from a real scientist — and a thrilling page-turner, to boot. What more could one ask?”

  • Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Quantum Night

“A perfect blend of hard science fiction, disaster epic and thriller, this book will immerse you and keep you there till it ends. Then make you wish for a series.”

  • Sarah Hoyt, Multi-award winning author

“Michael A. Rothman’s PRIMORDIAL THREAT is a beautifully-conceived hard science adventure, with totally believable characters and events, and a truly satisfying conclusion.”

  • Mike Resnick, 4-time Hugo Award Winning author

“Michael A. Rothman’s PRIMORDIAL THREAT leverages real technical expertise to find the human drama in a plausible near-future extinction scenario. This is gripping reading, one part Larry Niven and one part Michael Crichton!”

  • D.J. Butler, author of WITCHY EYE and THE KIDNAP PLOT

“The Primordial Threat is the Next Level in Extinction Event thrillers. Rothman deftly navigates actual science with a taut edge-of-your-seat tension that will scare you to death. I wouldn’t be surprised if he wasn’t already gaming Worst Case Scenarios for the White House.”

  • Nick Cole, author of The Old Man and the Wasteland (Amazon #1 in SciFi) and Soda Pop Soldier (Publisher’s Weekly Starred Review)

“M.A. Rothman has combined the high-frontier space realism of Kim Stanley Robinson, with the big ideas and cosmic scope of Larry Niven, and paced it all like a Michael Crichton adventure. A terrific roller coaster ride, which hits the reader on several levels. Highly recommended.”

  • Brad R. Torgersen, Multi-award winning Hard S.F. author

“… exciting sci-fi catastrophism … call it The Day the Earth Certainly Didn’t Stand Still.

Rothman (Perimeter, 2018), an engineer, tackles the hard-science/apocalypse trope of a ‘Very Bad Thing’ threatening Earth in the tradition of Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer’s epochal When World’s Collide and Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle’s Lucifer’s Hammer.”

  • Kirkus Reviews

Just letting you guys know that a new Levi novel is available for pre-order. And during the pre-order phase, it’s being offered at a discounted price.

Below is a brief synopsis and I hope you enjoy it!

Levi is a fixer for one of the New York Mafia families.

However, when Rivka Cohen walks into his life asserting that the police are falsely labeling her husband’s death a suicide, things take an unexpected turn.

In NEVER AGAIN, Levi is thrust into a world filled with old grudges, bigotry, international politics, and treason.

With evidence of a long-festering plot that has its roots in Nazi Germany, Levi knows this is something he can’t ignore.

However, Levi soon learns that it’s the criminal justice system itself trying to bury the case as well as anyone who pursues it.

This may be too much for even him to handle.

Well, isn’t that a nice surprise?
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#122 top selling book in the country. Pretty cool.

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I know I’m fairly pathetic when it comes to marketing my own stuff, so I probably should mention that there’s a brief sale on one of my e-books right now if you shop in Australia, Canada, UK, or India. Sales should be there on the country store page for the following retailers: Amazon, Kobo, GooglePlay/GoogleBooks, […]

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It’s been a while, so let me fill you in on a few things I’m working on as well as some things that have transpired. I sold the audio rights for Primordial Threat, Darwin’s Cipher, Perimeter, and The Inside Man to Tantor. This is good news. This means it’s one less thing for me to […]

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