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Review of “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” (2021)

I finally managed to see Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) when I found the Blu-ray at my local public library. Actually, like the blurb says on the Blu-ray cover, it is “perfect.” Not absolutely, but it was an amazing experience, especially for a film that is so different from the original (I still haven’t seen the 2016 […]

Book Review of “Infinity Engine: Transformation Book Three”

It’s been three-and-a-half years since I first started this trilogy with Dark Intelligence and almost three years since I read and reviewed part two, War Factory. Now I wrap up Neal Asher’s Transformation trilogy with Infinity Engine. The hardest part of reading these books is keeping track of all of the characters. In Book One, […]

Coming in October in a New Anthology: “Wolf in the Wind”

My short story “Wolf in the Wind” was accepted some months ago for a new anthology, but it won’t see the light of day (so to speak) until October. Until then, here’s a small taste. Thornton was working on his third glass of redeye, sitting alone at a table, in the equally empty Maloney and […]

What Are People Saying About “Ice?”

Now that my week long promotion of “Ice” is over, what’s the final tally of reviews and ratings? On Amazon, there are a total of four “ratings” which in this case is three reviews and one rating. The latest review was a four star, which is totally terrific. On Amazon, “Ice” has 100% 4 and […]

New Four-Star Review of “Ice” on goodreads!

People are downloading and hopefully reading my fantasy novelette Ice from Amazon on their kindles. No new Amazon reviews yet, but there was a terrific one on goodreads I want to share. There are also a number of folks who have marked that they are reading “Ice” or it’s on their to-read list. But first, […]

Starting Today and through August 9th, download and read “Ice” for FREE!

This is it!!! Read my fantasy novelette Ice for absolutely FREE starting today, August 5th. From today through the 9th, it’s a free ebook download from Amazon to your kindle device. Here’s a “blurb” At the end of human history the fire god had long since defeated the frost giants and the world became warm […]

My Fantasy Novelette “Ice” is FREE for Five Days Starting Tomorrow!

Longing to escape the heat of the waning dog days of summer? My fantasy novelette Ice (click that link) will be a free download to your Kindle device from Amazon from Friday, August 5th through Tuesday the 9th. Here’s the summary: In eons past, the armies of Surtur the fire goddess and Ymir the frost […]

Review of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, The First Season

If you follow this blog, you know I’ve been reviewing, episode by episode, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Basically, it’s Kurtzman NuTrek designed to appeal to the old school “Star Trek” fan like me. Did it work? Sort of. First of all, let’s be clear that you can’t make a television show (or any art […]

Review of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Ep10, “A Quality of Mercy”

This is it. The final episode of season one “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” A Quality of Mercy. Yes, it was good. Yes, it had problems, big fat furry ones. We start off being reunited with Captain Batel (Melanie Scrofano) who we saw in bed with Pike in the series pilot. They’re near the Romulan […]

Review of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Ep9, “All Those Who Wander”

Finally got to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ep 9 All Those Who Wander. We’re near the wrap up of the first season. This one is the horror movie, monster episode. It’s been compared to Alien (1979), Aliens (1986), Predator (1987), and if you factor in the cold, to The Thing (1982). The Enterprise is […]