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Cage of Souls, a Review

When Balls are Dropped An exoplanet with imaginative biology, a fascist prison camp, and bitter academic prisoner. What’s not to […]

A Review of the novel Empire:Spiral – High Fantasy, Meets Alternate Universe, and Existential Horror

Since I enjoy fictional worlds with otherworldly or religious elements and often dip into existential horror, Empire:Spiral is right up my alley. I got a kick out of the inclusion of touch stones of existential horror such as gigantic tentacled demons and the Yellow King. The high fantasy element is relatively dark; however, although many […]

Empire:Spiral – a review

An imaginative amalgam of high fantasy, alternate universe, and existential horror Since I enjoy fictional worlds with otherworldly or religious […]

The Last Speaker – A Historical Fantasy Novel of Friendship and Gentle Magic

This understated, almost cozy, historical fantasy is unusual in many aspects. It focuses on a friendship that forms between drifters hopping trains as they travel in search of agricultural work. However, this group of damaged and dispossessed men possesses a subtle magic, and their newest member, Joe, not what he seems to be. Joe’s story […]

The Last Speaker – A Review

The Last Speaker – A Review This understated, almost cozy, historical fantasy is unusual in many aspects. It focuses on […]

Sea of too much Tranquility – Time Travel Fantasy/Science Fiction Meets Book Tour – A Review

The time-travel theme and elegant prose of Sea of Tranquility caught my attention, and I enjoyed the opening sequence featuring the utterly lost Edwin who showed both comic and growth potential. But my enthusiasm lagged because the story shifted to several other characters who failed to capture my interest. Much of the book follows Gaspery, […]

Sea of too much Tranquility

The time-travel theme and elegant prose of Sea of Tranquility caught my attention, and I enjoyed the opening sequence featuring the utterly lost Edwin who showed both comic and growth potential. But my enthusiasm lagged because the story shifted to several other characters who failed to capture my interest. Much of the book follows Gaspery, … Continue reading Sea of too much Tranquility

A Celery Talk

Agnet bit into the cool and crisp celery stalk, chewed until her teeth rendered the stalk into a fibrous mass, then struggled it down her esophagus. “Why do you eat that stuff,” asked Brandt. “It tastes like medicine.” Medicine might be an exaggeration, but the man had a point. Celery didn’t taste that great. What … Continue reading A Celery Talk

Experiments with AI

Artists, I still need you.

The Bear Returns

Martin leant against an arch, lit up, and inhaled, a move he’d learned from Fred Astaire, though nobody could match Fred’s elegance. Amazing the video game designers preferred that vile and outrageously caffeinated, cherry-flavoured “energy drink” over a smoke. Young people these days, no style whatsoever. Doctor Balthus’s gentle nagging about cigarettes “maintaining a cycle … Continue reading The Bear Returns