Virtual Tales, a privately held publisher of trade paperbacks, eBooks, and eSerials spanning a variety of fiction genres
and styles, announced the paperback release of the science fiction thriller THE EPSILON ERIDANI ALTERNATIVE by
popular mystery author Beth Groundwater (the Claire Hanover gift basket designer mysteries).

If you had to kill an infant of an alien species to save your own life... could you do it? What if the future of the entire
human race depends on your decision? When space colonists from Earth crash-land on a planet orbiting the star Epsilon
Eridani, they must wrestle with an ethical dilemma. They've emerged from their stasis pods 33 years older than when
they started. They could harvest stem cells from alien infants to counteract the effects of human aging... but the process
will kill the infants. As factions develop among the astronauts, the scientists race ahead with experiments to restore their
youthful vigor—and must cope with the unexpected consequences of their choices.

Ask for THE EPSILON ERIDANIT ALTERNATIVE at your favorite bookstore, or buy it online at the Virtual Tales website,
Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and many other outlets. It is available in most eBook formats through Amazon Kindle,
Barnes & Noble, Books on Board, Diesel eBooks, eBookMall, eReader.com, FictionWise, iTunes, Mobipocket, Powells,
Kobe (ShortCovers), the Sony Reader Store, Virtual Tales, Waterstones, WHSmith and many other outlets worldwide. It
is also available as an eSerial exclusively through the Virtual Tales website.

THE EPSILON ERIDANI ALTERNATIVE
Genre: Science Fiction
Rated: PG-13

Print
Paperback: 124 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1-935460-13-8
ISBN-10: 1-935460-13-7
Retail Price: $9.95 USD

eBook
ISBN-13: 978-1-935460-19-0
Price: $3.95 USD

Virtual Tales is a privately held partnership founded in 2006 to publish original works of general and genre fiction in multiple formats, including print, eBooks and eSerials. Trade paperbacks are available through Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and other outlets throughout the world. eBooks are offered in a variety of formats, including MobiPocket, Microsoft Reader, Amazon/Kindle, ePub and PDA-formatted Adobe Reader files. eSerials are delivered through email as Adobe Reader files suitable for reading on a PC, Mac, PDA, e-reader, cell phone or other devices. Virtual Tales is based in Vancouver, Washington, just north of Portland, Oregon on the west coast of the United States.

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