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The Legend of Vox Machina season one review

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    THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA is a twelve-episode animated fantasy series based around the first season of Critical Role’s expansive multi-hundred-hour Dungeons and Dragons campaigns. The title, Vox Machina, comes from the fact the latter is a cast of voice actors doing a Dungeons and Dragons campaign “live” on streaming. Being all professionals, they certainly brought a great deal more acting than the typical college age or adul...

Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City review

    RESIDENT EVIL is one of my all-time favorite video game franchises but it is also something that I can honestly say no one has ever experienced for their deep and meaningful plots. It's not that the games don't have interesting plots, it's just that they're deliberately cheesy and B-movie like. I say this as someone who proudly admits that he read the S.D. Perry novelizations of the games in the Nineties that is probably the absolute worst way to experience the franchise. The Umbrella Corpor...

The Blind Spot by Michael Robertson review

     THE BLIND SPOT by Michael Robertson is a cyberpunk political thriller, which is rare enough among the genre but particularly interesting here because the focus of the book isn't on the action or plot twists but the characterization. While I wouldn't say this is a slice of life drama as there is an important plot our characters are unraveling, I'd go so far to say that it isn't the real strength of the book. Instead, I would say the best part of the book is its ability to bring its un...

The Complete Gail Simone Red Sonja review

    Red Sonja is one of the most influential characters of fantasy literature, having hit like a bolt of lightning during her first appearance in the Conan: The Barbarian comics by Roy Thomas. Based on non-Hyborian Age characters created by Robert E. Howard (Red Sonya of Rogatina and Dark Agnes respectfully), she helped usher in the age of many other fierce uncompromising action hero

    However, the character has also become something of a walking punchline due to her...

Cyberpunk 2077 1.5 Patch Update

 I am genuinely surprised at the changes I've seen. 
* Apartment customization. I chose hot pink. * 4 new apartments to buy, two crappy ones and two very nice ones. * Completing a Fixer's quests gets you a personalized farewell and gift for doing so.

* You now get Fixer missions as you increase your "rep" with them.
 * You can now control what appears on your map. * You can now mute certain types of phone calls like police dispatchers.
 * You can now refuse phone calls. * Some enemies now use opti...

Daughter of the Cyber Dragons available!

 

Hey folks, 

I am very pleased to announce DAUGHTER OF THE CYBER DRAGONS is available for purchase on February 10th, 2022! Like Space Academy Dropouts, it's going to be one of my rare novels available in KU. It's a fantastic cyberpunk snarky adventure that I think fans will absolutely love.

FROM THE BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF THE SUPERVILLAINY SAGA:

Keiko "Kei" Springs is a Rider, a specialized form of delivery girl and mercenary all in one. They are among the most highly prized criminals in the dys...

Space Academy Dropouts is now available!

Hey folks,

I am very pleased to say that SPACE ACADEMY DROPOUTS is now available on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited. This is my first book available and KU and I'm interested to see if it pans out as that might lead to releasing more of my books on Amazon's lending service.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SUPERVILLAINY SAGA:

"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 atone for training acciden...

When Gravity Fails (Marid Audran #1) by George Alec Effinger review

    WHEN GRAVITY FAILS by George Alec Effinger is one of the seminal works of science fiction but, sadly, has fallen out of reading order for a lot of modern fans. Which is a sham because it does belong there with Neuromancer, Snow Crash, Hardwired, and Synners. It still has a lot of respect but is something that should probably come up more. It is dark, gritty, imaginative, and presents a vision of the future that not only remains internally consistent but socially relevant. Has it aged ...

Writing update - 01/01/2021

Space Academy Dropouts: COMPLETE: Edited and submitted to Crossroad Press. Basically, I signed a deal with Podium in hopes of expanding my audiobook audience (I love Crossroad Press don't get me wrong and am sticking with them on my other series) to do a humorous wacky space opera series in the same respect as The Rules of Supervillainy is for superheroes. Vance Turbo is the eponymous Space Academy drop out who gets conscripted/press ganged onto a suicide mission of similar misifts by Divi...

Shadow City (Tales of the Shadow City #1) by Anna Mocikat review

    SHADOW CITY by Anna Mocikat is first volume of her TALES OF THE SHADOW CITY chronicles that is a genre busting post-apocalypse adventure story. I can't really think of any other novels like it with its mixture of monsters, cyborgs, the supernatural, and survival horror. If I had to make a comparison, it reminds me of both EX-HEROES by Peter Clines crossed with the FALLOUT games. Except instead of 1950s Americana, Anna Mocikat draws from THE MATRIX-style Nineties antiheroes.

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