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A Fastball for Freedom by Gary Morgenstein - Available 3/25/21

A War-weary 22nd Century World Turns to Baseball, Robots, and Faith in
A FASTBALL FOR FREEDOM by Gary Morgenstein


Gary Morgenstein, a native New Yorker and die-hard Yankee’s fan, combines his love of dystopian, science fiction, and baseball in his latest release, A Fastball for Freedom, the follow-up to his critically acclaimed novel A Mound Over Hell.

Set in 2098, twenty-five years after America has been defeated by Islam, the country is no longer a great democracy or a world power. Society is now run by the Family, and almost everything is illegal, including social media. In a robot- and hologram-run world, the fading game of baseball, once the national pastime, is now synonymous with treason, and represents the world’s last hope for peace.

Baseball historian Puppy Nedick is back, on the run from the government that lists him and his friends as traitors. Challenged by weaponized religion and a new Family figurehead, Puppy will stop at nothing to fight against the new regime as he and his friends struggle to survive in a hate-ravaged planet and avoid a final cataclysmic global conflict.

A Fast Ball for Freedom“The power of speculative fiction is that it allows you to be timely while taking the reader through a window into a nightmarish future,” says author Gary Morgenstein. “Familiar, yet not. But as humanity has always done under the most terrible of circumstances, ordinary people will find the extraordinary courage to build a better world. Or at least try. For as Grandma says in her First Insight, ‘All you need is love.’ That and a baseball field.”
 
Releasing worldwide on March 25, 2021, A Fastball for Freedom will appeal to a large demographic of readers who enjoy dystopian fiction, including The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, 1984 by George Orwell, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, and Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

A Fastball for Freedom
is published by BHC Press and is available for preorder in hardcover, trade softcover, and ebook at all major booksellers. Booksellers, retailers, and librarians may order direct from Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Gardners, Overdrive, Perma-Bound, and the publisher’s website. Other books in the series include A Mound Over Hell.

Praise for The Dark Depth Series

1984 meets Shoeless Joe.” —Mark Rosenman & AJ Carter, Sports Talk NY Live

“[a] must-have for every baseball fan…” Parade Magazine

“The bar is high for outstanding dystopian literature. A Mound Over Hell is comfortably over that bar.”
Tikkun Daily

About the author:
Gary Morgenstein is the critically acclaimed author of The Dark Depths series (A Mound Over Hell, A Fastball for Freedom), a unique dystopian science fiction baseball saga. An accomplished playwright, his humorous new play about racial harmony, A Black and White Cookie, is slated for premiere in 2021. He is also the author of the stage dramas Saving Stan, A Tomato Can’t Grow in the Bronx, and the off-Broadway sci-fi rock musical The Anthem.

His work has been featured in The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Parade Magazine, The New York Post, Sports Illustrated, Fox News Radio, and NPR. He enjoys sports, yoga, and taking care of his beloved pug. Gary lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, playwright-director-theater critic Marcina Zaccaria.

About BHC Press: BHC Press is an award-winning independent publisher of fiction and nonfiction for the adult, teen, and children’s market. Based in southeast Michigan, their books are published in hardcover, trade softcover, and ebook, and have been favorably reviewed and featured in Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, Parade Magazine, and many others. To learn more, visit www.bhcpress.com.

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On-sale: 03/25/2021
A Fastball for Freedom by Gary Morgenstein Hardcover: 978-1-64397-186-5, $30.00, 500 pages
Softcover:  978-1-64397-187-2, $19.95, 500 pages
Ebook: 978-1-64397-188-9, $7.99
LCCN: 2020936698

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