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Thomas Gondolfi
Thomas Gondolfi, father of three, gamer and loving husband, claims to be a Renaissance man and certified flirt. Raised as a military brat, he spend the first twenty years of his life moving to a new place every few years giving him a unique perspective on most regions of the United states.
Thomas has been writing fiction for over twenty-five years and doing it professionally for at least fifteen. Most of his short stories have been commissioned for use in gaming products, such as Babylon 5 Wars and Starfleet Battles. He has honed his abilities through writing well over a million words and having them independently critiqued. He has been a member of and chaired several different “destructive” critique groups. In 2012, Tom started his transition out of the high tech jungle by founding TANSTAAFL Press to bring his works and those of other prolific science fiction authors to market. |
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Mega corporations and terrorism collide in this cyberpunk thriller on a future earth where owning a pet is a capital offense, paying protection money to the police is as inevitable as death and taxes, and using a designer bioweapon to eliminate a nuisance isn’t given a second thought.
AN EIGHTY PERCENT SOLUTION
CORPGOV CHRONICLES - BOOK ONE |
Almost immediately after their Pyrrhic victory in An Eighty Percent Solution, the remaining members of the Green Action Militia begin mysteriously to disappear. Their leader, Tony Sammis, orders the team further underground than ever before as they try and discover who is exterminating them.
Metro Commissioner Yuri Krylov needs to prove to the fledgling CorpGov that the Metros have value and at the same time protect the perks of the rank and file policeman to continue to dominate and intimidate everyone around them.
As many who have tried to pick up the pieces after a successful coup Nanogate finds that everyone is not pulling in the same direction. As one of the few remaining CEOs of the former Cabal, Nanogate tries to forge a new government out of the shattered remnants left to him.
Within this chaotic soup, a new and influential power block rears its head from the most humble of origins to demand its concerns and rights be addressed.
With Earth itself on the edge of anarchy, drastic measures will be needed to prevent a civil war or to win one once it starts. Tony and the GAM are once again pulled into the center of the maelstrom to place their lives on the line for humanity
THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX
CORPGOV CHRONICLES - BOOK TWO |
The Metros, under Police Commissioner Yuri Krylov, have used every bit of influence and every corrupt tool to declare martial law and bring the National Guard under their sway. With this success, Krylov knows he holds the whip hand. He will do anything to crush the CorpGov and their lapdogs, the Green Action Militia.
Tony Sammis and Nanogate lead a patchwork alliance that includes the nascent CorpGov, Green Action Militia, the president of the United States, the Pacific Northwest Mob, most of the megacorps and the United Brotherhood of Bodyguards. The war the CorpGov alliance knows they can’t win has begun, but they are no longer fighting to win. Tony and Nanogate know they may not survive, but they intend to deliver the most grievous wounds they can. The most dangerous animal is one with no hope.
Through it all the Boxed wait as the patient slaves of all. Their fear of never being whole again fuels them to a desperate decision – a decision that could mean losing their current slim chance of rejoining humanity.
THE BLEEDING EDGE
CORPGOV CHRONICLES - BOOK THREE |
Thirty-two authors from all over the world have created a wide range of apocalypses for your reading pleasure. Within the pages of this anthology, you will find exceptional works focusing on hungry zombies, virulent viruses, nuclear missiles, malevolent fey, vindictive aliens, challenging crustaceans, and more — each of these maelstroms creating massive disturbances within human society.
While works of holocausts tend toward a uniform darkness, Enter the Apocalypse contains a number of catastrophes that are humorous enough to cause hysterics and others that are so black as to cause the devil himself to shrink away.
ENTER THE APOCALYPSE
ANTHOLOGY |
Continuing the theme started with Enter the Apocalypse, TANSTAAFL Press brings you another anthology of the end of mankind as we know it. In this volume writers were asked to explore the height or burnout of a disaster. Thirty-eight international authors offer dominating warlocks, ironic phone calls, thoughtless kaiju, frozen ecology, survival mutations, misbehaving aliens, and even two disparate takes on artificial intelligence - just to name a few. Enter the Aftermath provides insights into all humanity and even some non-homosapiens that we anthropomorphize. Come inside and enjoy the darkness and humor woven by our storytellers.
ENTER THE AFTERMATH
ANTHOLOGY |
Every reaction, no matter how violent, always reaches some equilibrium state. This final anthology in the Enter the… apocalyptic trilogy shares stories of what the new normal looks like after the end of days.
ENTER THE REBIRTH
ANTHOLOGY |
Don wakes from a normal manufacturing process as a two-meter, sentient teddy bear sporting purple fur. He learns he is the result of a desperate gamble by an autonomous factory with hashed programming. To protect his home, his way of life, and his creator, Don must lead other killer toys across a harsh alien landscape to battle the native fauna of Rigel-3 and even his own kind.
His discoveries change not only his view of the wars, but his own Human gods. In spite of these trials, Don’s harshest test may be getting his own brethren to believe his adventures and the soul-churning changes needed to survive.
TOY WARS
TOY WARS - BOOK 1 |
For years the living toys of Rigel-3 live in the peace that their president for life, Don Quixote, fought so hard to achieve. Their former masters, the Factories, watch on in silence as President Quixote leads his people through many of the growing pains of a new society. Yet two new explosive issues threaten to tear apart their nascent people – race and procreation.
In the middle of this internal maelstrom, on the anniversary of their tenth year of peace, the exiled and mentally unbalanced Isp returns at the head of a massive new Army of the Humans. He openly announces his intent to replace President Quixote’s democracy with a theocracy, either peacefully or by force.
With most of his military people modified to peacetime purposes, Don Quixote must make a horrific decision for the very soul of his people.
TOY RESERVATIONS
TOY WARS - BOOK 2 |
After a media blitz that surpassed the Rodney King riots, the Patty Hearst trial and the acquittal of OJ Simpson combined, Elizabeth sits on Alcatraz’ high-tech, death row awaiting execution at the age of thirty. A Catholic priest convinces Elizabeth to tell her story as a warning to other young women who might find themselves in similar circumstances.
Elizabeth shares how as a teen she is barely tolerated in an abusive family. When the private shame of her rape becomes an unwanted pregnancy, her father coldly sends her away to a school for wayward girls. At the School Elizabeth trades her naiveté for a home and family of sorts. Out of her unique position and her nightmarish start to adulthood Elizabeth goes on to save tens of thousands of lives, for which a jury of her peers condemns her to die.
WAYWARD SCHOOL
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