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Star Trek: Picard season 2 review

    STAR TREK: PICARD Season Two is something that I was deeply looking forward to from the moment it was announced as I was a huge fan of Season One. My impression of that season was that it had an extremely strong start but stumbled due to episode length. We didn't get enough follow up on events and were left with more mysteries than answers. Basically, I wished they had done THE LAST BEST HOPE by Una McCormick as a two parter to open it and added an epilogue to follow up on what happened afte...

Halo: Infinite review

    HALO: INFINITE is a game that I was extremely reluctant to get into. HALO 5 was not just a disappointing game to me but I felt it derailed the entirety of my investment into the Halo franchise. Which is a shame because I'd played and beaten every other Halo game as well as read a bunch of its novels. It wasn't my favorite sci-fi franchise (Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon Five, and Mass Effect all beat it) but it was in the top five.

    Basically, I'm willing to overlook a lot of gameplay issue...

Tales of Supervillainy: Cindy's Seven is now available on Kindle

Hey folks,

I'm pleased to say that CINDY'S SEVEN is now available on Kindle. The eighth installment of THE SUPERVILLAINY SAGA is the latest work set in the Garyverse and shows us the perspective of his favorite henchwench, Cindy Wakowski AKA Red Riding Hood.

Cindy Wakowski aka Red Riding Hood is the second-most feared villain in Falconcrest City. Unfortunately, she soon discovers that is only because she's considered Merciless: The Supervillainy without MercyTM's favorite henchwoman. Determine...

The Batman (2022) review

THE BATMAN is a movie I approached with some trepidation because while I am a die-hard caped crusader fan, I even watched the Keaton movie as the date movie I proposed to my wife during, I had some issues for this one. It was a movie made without Ben Affleck, it was yet another "darker and grittier" reboot, and Robert Pattison was an unknown quality despite (and perhaps because of) his most famous role as Edward Cullen.

So, what did I think of The Batman? Overall, my impression is incredibly po...

Dangerous Games by Joseoh P. Laycock Book Review

    "Never argue with an idiot. You'll never convince the idiot that you're correct, and bystanders won't be able to tell who's who." - Mark Twain

    This is a deeply frustrating book for me because I wanted to like it but the problem is that it keeps running into the truism of the aforementioned quote undermines it at very turn. There's an apocryphal story passed around in my Kentucky game group from my DM to me that came from a convention he attended. Basically, it...

Ten Sigma: A Military Science Fiction Adventure by A.W. Wang review

    TEN SIGMA: A MILITARY SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURE is a dark psychosexual story of a woman recruited into a super soldier serum as an alternative to dying of cancer. Mary, later renamed Brin, hates being a burden to her husband and niece but is clearly not getting any better while also inflicting deep financial woe on her family. The Ten Sigma program promises to pay off all of her family's debts and also give them a nest egg to survive what is apparently the imminent collapse of the Unit...

101 Dungeons and Dragons Lore Tidbits from My Game

Warning - May contain dice-rolling, fun, and SATAN. At least according to my church.

We all create little libraries of random facts in our Dungeonmaster's notes over the years. By the time you're forty-one, like me, you might start turning them into novels. Which, given I'm an author, I have. However, these are some fun tidbits I've accumulated and thought I'd share. Some are ridiculous, others serious, and others ridicu-serious or dramedic. I hope they bring a smile to your face and the mo...

Space Academy Dropouts and Daughter of the Cyber Dragons are now available!

Hey folks,

I'm pleased to say that April is a red letter month for me as I have not one but two releases on audiobook! Yes, SPACE ACADEMY DROPOUTS (narrated by Jeffrey Kafer) and DAUGHTER OF THE CYBER DRAGONS (narrated by Catherine Ho) are out! 

Link: https://www.audible.com/pd/Space-Academy-Dropouts-Audiobook/B09VWJZ7SY

"Boldly going because they're completely lost."

The newly renamed Vance Turbo has sabotaged his own career at Space Fleet Academy due to a desire to a...

Baldur's Gate retrospective

A Gateway Drug To the Imagination

Everyone has a book, movie, or video game that has a special place in their hearts. The actual medium doesn’t matter but the story or characters tantalized you enough that you wanted to experience more. These were our gateway drugs and are things that both tantalize the imagination as well as enspell the spirit. In this case, I’m going to tell you about a game called Baldur’s Gate.

Baldur’s Gate wasn’t my introduction to fantasy or even Dungeons and Dragons...

Spae Academy Dropouts and Daughter of the Cyber Dragons are available for preorder

Hey folks,

I am very pleased to say that SPACE ACADEMY DROPOUTS and DAUGHTER OF THE CYBER DRAGONS are now available for preorder on Audible. Daughter of the Cyber Dragons is available on April 5th and Space Academy Dropouts on April 12th.

SPACE ACADEMY DROPOUTS



Link: https://www.audible.com/pd/Space-Academy-Dropouts-Audiobook/B09VWJZ7SY

"Boldly going because they're completely lost."

The newly renamed Vance Turbo has sabotaged his own career at Space Fleet Academy due t...