Keith B. Darrell's Blog, page 24
May 21, 2016
I Get It. You Don’t Like Smart Girls
An Excerpt from The Tomorrow Paradox (Book Two in The Adventures of Mackenzie Mortimer):
As they stepped out into the street, Mackenzie gaped in astonishment at the motley throng of passersby. In addition to typical pedestrians, cyborgs roamed the streets: humans wearing exoskeletons, with bionic eyes, arms, or legs. He also noticed metallic robots among the crowd. They stood out as inhuman machines, definitely neither cyborg nor human. The robots glided on small wheels and despite wearin...
As they stepped out into the street, Mackenzie gaped in astonishment at the motley throng of passersby. In addition to typical pedestrians, cyborgs roamed the streets: humans wearing exoskeletons, with bionic eyes, arms, or legs. He also noticed metallic robots among the crowd. They stood out as inhuman machines, definitely neither cyborg nor human. The robots glided on small wheels and despite wearin...
May 19, 2016
And the Band Played On
When the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg on April 15, 1912 and slowly, inexorably, sank into the depths of the ocean to its floor, the captain finally realized the ineluctable fate of his ship and the passengers who had entrusted their lives and safety to his stewardship, albeit too late to avoid their inevitable fate. The Titanic would sink to the briny depths, inspiring odes for having undertaken such a bold but obviously impractical maiden voyage in its attempt to be the world’s largest tran...
From A Clone’s Perspective
An Excerpt from The Tomorrow Paradox (Book Two in The Adventures of Mackenzie Mortimer):
Gemma laughed. “I have all we need.” She held up her opened palm. “I’m the clone of a rich woman’s granddaughter, remember? We share the same DNA. My fingerprints are her fingerprints; my eyes are her eyes.”
“So what?”
“Everything is purchased with credit, deducted electronically from people’s bank accounts. Money isn’t something you carry around; it’s digital data stored in cyberspace and accessed thro...
Gemma laughed. “I have all we need.” She held up her opened palm. “I’m the clone of a rich woman’s granddaughter, remember? We share the same DNA. My fingerprints are her fingerprints; my eyes are her eyes.”
“So what?”
“Everything is purchased with credit, deducted electronically from people’s bank accounts. Money isn’t something you carry around; it’s digital data stored in cyberspace and accessed thro...
May 18, 2016
You Must Never Have Seen A Naked Girl Before
An Excerpt from The Tomorrow Paradox (Book Two in The Adventures of Mackenzie Mortimer):
The girl quickly closed the door behind her. She braced her back against it, trembling as her hazel eyes scanned Mackenzie’s hospital room. Her light brown hair was disheveled and she gasped several times, attempting to regain her breath. She wore a pink nightgown that stopped above her knees. Property of Simulacrum Institute was stenciled in small black letters beneath her right breast. The 15-year-o...
The girl quickly closed the door behind her. She braced her back against it, trembling as her hazel eyes scanned Mackenzie’s hospital room. Her light brown hair was disheveled and she gasped several times, attempting to regain her breath. She wore a pink nightgown that stopped above her knees. Property of Simulacrum Institute was stenciled in small black letters beneath her right breast. The 15-year-o...
May 17, 2016
A Time Travel Conundrum
An Excerpt from The Tomorrow Paradox (Book Two in The Adventures of Mackenzie Mortimer):
Mackenzie crawled out of the hover pod and walked to the closet, which his father had stocked with several 21st century outfits for him. Mackenzie brushed aside the strange clothing and reached for his street clothes. He pulled the black, iron key from his pants pocket and carried it back to his pod. “This key will be in my pocket, traveling back in time with me.” He studied the key intently. Mackenzi...
Mackenzie crawled out of the hover pod and walked to the closet, which his father had stocked with several 21st century outfits for him. Mackenzie brushed aside the strange clothing and reached for his street clothes. He pulled the black, iron key from his pants pocket and carried it back to his pod. “This key will be in my pocket, traveling back in time with me.” He studied the key intently. Mackenzi...
May 16, 2016
Mackenzie Mortimer’s Pocket Watch – Destroyed!
An Excerpt from The Tomorrow Paradox (Book Two in The Adventures of Mackenzie Mortimer):
Marlene Prentice turned and gazed out the rear window of her family’s SUV for one final glimpse of her neighborhood, before embarking on the great adventure that awaited her at the elite Ferncrest boarding school. A wave of memories flooded the 13-year-old’s mind as the SUV passed the familiar sights on the street where she had grown up. She spotted something moving in the distance. When they stopped...
Marlene Prentice turned and gazed out the rear window of her family’s SUV for one final glimpse of her neighborhood, before embarking on the great adventure that awaited her at the elite Ferncrest boarding school. A wave of memories flooded the 13-year-old’s mind as the SUV passed the familiar sights on the street where she had grown up. She spotted something moving in the distance. When they stopped...
The Secret Election
On May 7, 2016, The Florida Democratic Party (FDP) held a statewide election for Democratic voters to select delegates to the Democratic National Convention to be held in Philadelphia, PA in July. These are the delegates who will be nominating the party’s presidential candidate in the 2016 U.S. presidential race.
Not many people vote in these delegate elections; a recent article stated fewer than 200 registered Democrats actually show up at the polls in each of Florida’s 26 congressional distr...
Not many people vote in these delegate elections; a recent article stated fewer than 200 registered Democrats actually show up at the polls in each of Florida’s 26 congressional distr...
May 13, 2016
21st Century Publishing
It's an incredibly exciting period to be in small press publishing. Print on demand has dramatically reduced the cost of publishing while also eliminating the need for carrying inventory and the burden of returns. The Internet, especially Amazon.com, has redefined the entire distribution paradigm. E-books and other forms of digital distribution have made it possible for small publishers to garner worldwide sales. The Internet has also opened new low-cost, high-reach marketing opportunities, s...
May 6, 2016
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The 10th edition of Issues In Internet Law: Society, Technology, and the Law has been updated for 2016 with the latest cases and trends in Internet Law. The new edition not only has an expanded gloss...
The 10th edition of Issues In Internet Law: Society, Technology, and the Law has been updated for 2016 with the latest cases and trends in Internet Law. The new edition not only has an expanded gloss...
April 23, 2016
Doves Are Crying
There is something about the Internet that brings out the worst in people. And then there are those individuals who are truly sick and demented and the Internet merely allows them to share their perversity with the world.
Death is about the most serious subject there is. It is feared because of its finality and its inevitability. We fear our own deaths, and we fear the deaths of those we love because we know the loss is permanent once the Grim Reaper’s scythe has severed the tenuous connectio...
Death is about the most serious subject there is. It is feared because of its finality and its inevitability. We fear our own deaths, and we fear the deaths of those we love because we know the loss is permanent once the Grim Reaper’s scythe has severed the tenuous connectio...
