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Alan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Alan Loewen
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Born
in Easthampton, NY, The United States
November 01, 1954
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February 2012
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https://www.goodreads.com/alanloewen
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Opal Wine
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2012
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2 editions
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Dark Dreams and Darker Visions: Ten Stories of Dark Fantasy
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2013
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Come Into My Cellar: Darker Tales From A Cerebral Vault
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2015
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The Seven Sisters
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2014
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2 editions
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In Humor Most Odd: The Collected Silliness of Alan Loewen
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2012
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2 editions
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Rowan Dreaming
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In Search of the Creators
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Worlds of Mystery
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Patterns
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Sawyer
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2011
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My Japanese Name (Morikawa Tomonobu)
Fascinated by AI, I have been chatting with ChatGPT since its inception (Note: I do NOT use AI in any of my writing ... that's deception). I use it to search the web and compile news reports on topics that interest me, such as Biblical archaeology, artificial intelligence, and other subjects.
I am also a confirmed Japanophile and someday hope to complete my novel, The Shrine War, a love letter Read more of this blog post »
Alan’s Recent Updates
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Reads Like a SyFy Movie Channel Plot … oh. Wait a sec. (I can’t comment anymore without giving spoilers). The story is painfully simple. A family flees Atlanta that is under siege by trillions of man-eating insects. The story was rushed into print too q ...more |
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Enjoyable Creature SF Horror Though it could have used the services of an editor, Nightcrawlers was an enjoyable read, reminding me much of the pulp SF from the 30s and 40s. I thought of a similar solution to the problem about halfway through the book ...more |
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A Charming Detective Noir Short Story Taking place during prohibition on Christmas Eve, Detective Sam runs into two young girls living on the streets. The result is a charming Christmas story told by a storyteller who knows the genre. It would be fun ...more |
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Very Good Anthology of Horror Avoiding the tropes that make many horror stories feel old and stale, this collection contains different takes on monsters so common in today’s horror: zombies, vampires, ghosts, etc. for this reviewer it was a refreshing ...more |
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Excellent Imagination, But One Problem I am truly impressed with the author’s imagination. The stories are creative explorations into familiar territory without submitting to tiresome tropes. However, a common problem I find in many first-person horro ...more |
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Mixed Bag of Cosmic Horror So far I have read three editions of this magazine and mostly I applaud the work within its pages. Yet, as always, anthologies are a mixed bag. First, you can never go wrong with anything written by Glynn Owen Barrass. Howeve ...more |
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Wonderful Pictures But No Text As a fan of Shinto shrine architecture and aesthetics I found the photographs enchanting. A pity that there was no accompanying text to explain what each photo represents. |
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Wonderful Photographs, But No Text As a fan of Shinto shrine architecture and aesthetics, this photograph are a sheer delight. Unfortunately, there is no accompanying text to explain what each picture conveys. |
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Wonderful Pictures, But No Description As a fan of Shinto Shrine architecture sand aesthetics, the photographs are a delight, but sadly lacking in any description of what each picture represents. |
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“Lichilai, a Sung poet, has sadly remarked that there were three most deplorable things in the world: the spoiling of fine youths through false education, the degradation of fine art through vulgar admiration, and the utter waste of fine tea through incompetent manipulation.”
― The Book of Tea
― The Book of Tea
