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December 7, 2022
Tomorrow! Free Books!
In time to be really cool Christmas gifts. From December 8th through the 12th. these digital books from Starry Eyed Press are absolutely free for download onto your Kindle device: SKIN TRADERS: https://books2read.com/SkinTraders THE HAUNTING OF THE GINGER’S REGRET: https://books2read.com/TheHauntingoft... PEOPLE OF THE SPIRE: https://books2read.com/Spire They’re all set in the 224-verse including my novelette The […]
November 27, 2022
Better Late Than Never: Interviewed by Tina Holland
This is kind of embarrassing. I’ve suffered another memory glitch. Some months ago, I was asked if I wanted to be interviewed by my writing. Of course, I said yes and proceeded to answer the interviewer’s questions. She told me when to expect it to be published and sent me a link via email. I […]
November 15, 2022
The Future of Quantum Leap and Other Stories
If you’ve been reading this blog regularly, you know I’ve been watching and reviewing the 2022 continuation series Quantum Leap starring Raymond Lee, Caitlin Bassett, and Ernie Hudson. As far as I can tell, the series was originally green lit for eight episodes but was recently given an extension for a full 18. We know […]
November 12, 2022
Book Review of Redux: the Lost Patrol, A SciFi Time Travel Novel
Some weeks ago, author Gregg Cunningham asked if I’d mind reading and reviewing his novel Redux: the Lost Patrol, A SciFi Time Travel Novel. To that end, he sent me a PDF formatted ARC copy. I started to read Part One of the novel “War Pig.” I’ve read War Pig at least twice and so […]
Book Review of “Network Effect,” The Fifth Novel in the Murderbot Diaries
I finished Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel yesterday morning. It’s the fifth entry in the Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells. It’s also the first novel-length book in the series, with one through four being novellas or novelettes (my reviews on the rest of the series can be found here). It won the 2021 Nebula […]
November 11, 2022
Spring Into SciFi : 2022 in the Top 27 SciFi Kindle Anthologies at Amazon
As I write this, the Cloaked Press anthology Spring into SciFi 2022 edition ranks #27 in Amazon’s Science Fiction Anthologies (Kindle Store) and #94 in Science Fiction Anthologies (Books). That’s pretty impressive. The accompanying graphic (see below) I received from the publisher gives a slightly different figure, but they tend to float. It also says […]
November 8, 2022
Review of Quantum Leap Ep8 “Stand by Ben”
I just finished watching the new Quantum Leap season 1, episode 8 Stand by Ben. I suppose that’s a play on the title of the 1986 film Stand by Me starring Wil Wheaton and River Phoenix. This episode certainly milked a lot of teenage angst films from the 1980s. Except Ben leaps into July 10, […]
November 1, 2022
Review of Quantum Leap Ep7 “O Ye of Little Faith”
I just finished watching (Tuesday night, Nov 1) Quantum Leap’s season 1 episode 7 O Ye of Little Faith, which is an interesting title since faith is mentioned and yet largely discounted, particularly by Ben. This is the Halloween episode (the original series had several supernaturally themed episodes) since it was first aired yesterday (as […]
October 25, 2022
Review of Quantum Leap Ep6 “What a Disaster!”
I just finished watching Quantum Leap Season 1, Episode 6 What a Disaster!. Ben leaps into John Harvey in San Francisco just seconds before the October 17,1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. But that’s not where the episode starts. Oh, spoiler alert! It starts at the end of Ben’s last leap in the old west when he […]
October 19, 2022
Review of Quantum Leap Ep5: “Salvation or Bust”
This week, Ben Song takes his biggest leap ever, back to 1879 in the old west. specifically to a town called Salvation. He finds himself as an old Mexican gunslinger named Diego De La Cruz (Alberto Manquero) whose granddaughter Valentina (Natalia del Riego) has called him out of his retirement in San Francisco to come […]
