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Blade Runner: Black Lotus episodes 1-4 review

    I admit, before I begin my full review, I have mixed feelings regarding this one. I am a big fan of Blade Runner but it is often imitated and never duplicated. It has been an immense influence on countless works of sci-fi dystopia as well as the cyberpunk genre as a whole. My own Agent G series owes a significant debt to it. The closest anyone has come to making anything as good was, of course, Blade Runner 2049. That movie, though, was not a financial success at the box office. So it surpri...

Psycho Killers in Love Author notes

Some interesting annotations for PSYCHO KILLERS IN LOVE. Basically, just random bits of trivia for those who enjoyed the book.

1. Psycho Killers in Love is a prequel to the United States of Monsters series, taking place in the year 2000 before the Reveal of the supernatural in 2006. 2. Billy England is named after Billy from BLACK CHRISTMAS (the first slasher) and Robert Englund a.k.a Freddy Krueger. 3. Billy's Santa-themed murder spree is inspired by SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT as well as the ser...

Behind Blue Eyes: Fallen Angels by Anna Mocikat review

    BEHIND BLUE EYES: FALLEN ANGEL is the sequel to BEHIND BLUE EYES by Anna Mocikat. It follows up after the traumatic ending where our heroine discovers that resisting a totalitarian mind-controlling corporatocracy isn't as easy as it sounds. The situation is pretty terrible with Metatron keeping her as his mistress and, worse, Nephilim not even knowing that she's supposed to hate him.

    The scenes between those are cringe-inducing and you just want her to gut him...

Vampiraz4Life is now available on audiobook

Link: https://www.audible.com/pd/Vampiraz4Life-Audiobook/B09MJLDD9H

From the best-selling author of the Supervillainy Saga

It's been a rough year for Peter Stone.

Vampires are not meant to be quarantined, and most of the nation is under lockdown. It has been extra hard in the city of New Detroit, which depends on tourism not only for its economy but its blood supply. With his creator kidnapped, mother dead, and finding himself once more exiled to the fringes of t...

Cowboy Bebop (2021) review

     Cowboy Bepop was one of my all-time favorite anime when I was in college. It was 1998 and I was a huge otaku with a love for anything shown on television or available to buy on VHS. It was unlike anything else I'd ever seen (Firefly wasn't out until 2002 and The Expanse wouldn't be out until 2015). It was a beautiful well-realized science fiction world taking place in the solar system in the near-future that managed to combine the used future of Star Wars, jazz, Westerns, martial arts, and ...

Twenty Kindle Unlimited books that don't suck

99c not KU - but it's my blog.
    Kindle Unlimited has been a feast and a famine to self-published as well as small press publishers throughout the internet. It provides a chance to get books out to a much larger audience than might normally be achieved and turns the Amazon algorhythm from friend to foe. At least theoretically. However, there's a certain level of caveat emptor to be found when trying to find your next monthly rental. There are many Kindle Unlimited books which stand up to the ma...

What I'm currently working on

Just a heads up for my fans:

Current book progress: Vampiraz4Life: COMPLETED - awaiting audiobook release

Space Academy Drop Outs (Book #1): COMPLETED - awaiting publication

Space Academy Rejects (Book #2): 50K

Cindy's Seven (Tales of Supervillainy #1) 48K Lucifer's World (Lucifer's Star #3): 45K  Brighteyes (Morgan Detective Agency #2): 45K Daughter of the Cyber Dragons (Agent G spin off): 65K

Finishing up these books will be the progress of the next year and the next two Gary books that haven't b...

Far Cry 6 review

Anton Castillo calls all true Yaryans to reject the cause of Libertad and to embrace the peaceful reign of El Presidente!

    The Far Cry franchise hit its zenith with Far Cry 3 and Michael Mando's legendary Vaas character in the same way that Fallout 3 changed the Fallout franchise. It made an open world environment, gave us an interesting story about people degenerating into savagery, and also critiqued the savior narrative of video games by making it clear the protagonist is deluding himsel...

Ten Recommended Indie Cyberpunk Novels

    Cyberpunk is a genre that is frequently considered to be dead by certain segments of the fandom or at least considered to be past its heyday. This despite the fact that the world is becoming more cyberpunk than ever with the integration of computers, disparity of wealth, and rising power of corporations. Indeed, one may argue the same forces that were driving society (and thus the genre) in the Eighties are the same forces driving society today.

    However, I don't think cyberpunk is dead. I...

I am now on Patreon!

 
Join me on Patreon! I am now setting one up to get wonderful Supervillainy, United States of Monsters, and Cthulhu Armageddon merch to you. Plus news about my current writing.  I have made a plan to allow people t-shirts, mugs, and stickers plus also a bunch of inside information about my worlds for those who want to experience them. We'll also be giving writing excerpts, answered questions, art samples, and more!

I hope my fans will check them out.

 Link: https://patreon.com/ctphipps