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Hard Luck Hank: Suck My Cosmos by Steven Campbell review

    HARD LUCK HANK: SUCK MY COSMOS is the fourth novel in the Hard Luck Hank series. The series changes every volume with the station of Belvaille going through a variety of social and economic changes. In this volume, Hank's efforts in the previous books have paid huge dividends and it's gone from being Mos Eisley to a combination of Manhattan, Vegas, and Dubai. Hank can barely afford to to live on the station now and only manages to do so by doing the odd favor for the city's...

Caliban's War (The Expanse #2) by James S.A. Corey review

    CALIBAN'S WAR is the second installment of the Expanse series, which compromises the majority of Season Two of the series. Unlike with the first volume, I read this before watching the second season and I'm glad I did. I felt my viewing of the second season of the Expanse was enriched by my reading how the author originally intended the story to go.

    The premise for the Expanse series is it's roughly two hundred years in the future and mankind has spread to...

New image from Lucifer's Star

Alex Raspad, cover artist for LUCIFER'S STAR, WRAITH KNIGHT, and I WAS A TEENAGED WEREDEER was cool enough to do a picture up of my favorite character from LS (aside from Cassius). Here's a picture of Clarice Rin-O'Harra.


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Hard Luck Hank: Prince of Suck by Steven Campbell review

    The HARD LUCK HANK series is a very entertaining ride. It's basically a combination of a parody noir detective novel with a science fiction series. Hank is a professional thug and no matter how many times he saves the galaxy or gets promoted, he remains a guy who breaks legs for a living. It's who he is and that is a universal constant whether he's working for gang bosses, corporates, the government, or the city. His simplistic world-view and general laziness are the source...

New novel in the works!: I WAS A TEENAGE WEREDEER

Hey folks,

I wanted to let my fans know I have a new work in process. I know I should be finishing up all of my existing IPs and not creating new ones but this one is harder than most to ignore. It's about 45K into a 90K novel hard to ignore and that's only been written in the past month.

Specifically, the novel is I WAS A TEENAGE WEREDEER by Michael Suttkus and I. I know what you're thinking, surely that can't be the title but this may surprise you to know I have a tendency to write irreverent...

New novel in the works!: I WAS A TEENAGED WEREDEER

Hey folks,

I wanted to let my fans know I have a new work in process. I know I should be finishing up all of my existing IPs and not creating new ones but this one is harder than most to ignore. It's about 45K into a 90K novel hard to ignore and that's only been written in the past month.

Specifically, the novel is I WAS A TEENAGED WEREDEER by Michael Suttkus and I. I know what you're thinking, surely that can't be the title but this may surprise you to know I have a tendency to write irreveren...

Twin Peaks FAQ: All That's Left to Know About a Place Both Wonderful and Strange review

    I'm a late comer to the TWIN PEAKS franchise since, well, I was twelve years old when the show was initially on the air and it wasn't until recently that I was able to watch it on Netflix. Nevertheless, I have since retroactively devoured a lot of the fandom and its lore. It was a show that had a big effect on my writing and helped create my Esoterrorism, I was a Teenaged Weredeer, and Rules of Supervillainy series. The TWIN PEAKS FAQ sets itself up as the definitive resour...

Hard Luck Hank: Basketful of Crap by Steve Campbell

    HARD LUCK HANK: BASKETFUL OF CRAP is the sequel to SCREW THE GALAXY and returns us to Belvaille Station, the worst place in the galaxy to live. In fact, the station is completely different from the way it was before and there's a significant time-jump from the previous book. Gone are the gangs of Belvaille, who dominated the setting before, and replacing them are soulless corporations that took advantage of Hank's deal with the Confederation in order to produce goods illega...

The Court of Broken Knives by Anna Smith Sparks review

      THE COURT OF BROKEN KNIVES is a grimdark political fantasy novel. Specifically, it is one of those novels which follows in the Game of Thrones tradition of the back and forth between various factions for control over a region. I should say this is actually a good deal darker than George R.R. Martin's work (no small feat) in the fact this is a book where there's no House Stark. Instead, it's the story of what would happen if you had only Tywin Lannister, Viserys...

Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut review

    DEADLY PREMONITION: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT is a game which is impossible to rate. No, seriously, it's a work of genius that's almost unplayable. The storyline is one of my favorites in video games but the combat sections are incredibly difficult while the controls are deeply wonky. This was to the point of me rage-quitting with the original Xbox 360 version and only picking it up after it was re-leased with changes on a new platform. Unfortunately, they never bothered to releas...