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Going cold turkey in The Fridgularity

For some characters the sudden disappearance of the Internet in The Fridgularity frees them from their addiction. (For others, it’s a challenge recovering from their habits.) This is a scene in which the two main characters, Blake and Lyca, go … Continue reading →

Get the Kindle edition of The Fridgularity FREE, today through Friday

Seriously, you can get the Kindle edition of my new novel for FREE, today through Friday only. I just think you’re that awesome. More details about The Fridgularity are available here or on the download page at Kindle. Alltop also … Continue reading →

Excerpt: Cyber-zombies in The Fridgularity

As the self-aware entity Zathir takes over the Internet (and promptly locks all humans out of it), a noticeably portion of the population become unhinged by their loss of their favorite thing. It’s not just the economic crisis the event … Continue reading →

Excerpt: Internet addicts, looking for a fix in The Fridgularity

The Fridgularity begins with the Big Crash — the Internet goes down, as an entity takes over all the horsepower available through all the devices connected to it. This has certain deleterious effects on the folks who NEED the Internet … Continue reading →

Sad about the singularity?

Is this robot really sad? Or is it just celebrating the technological singularity it its own quiet way? I don’t want to project onto this robot. Maybe he’s programmed to be happy with his single red balloon. Unlike Zathir, the … Continue reading →

Let the toaster revolution begin

Yeah, these guys really need to read my new book, The Fridgularity. The good folks at SigFox are planning to connect everything to the Internet. Where’s the harm in that? Well, what if you don’t want your toaster and fridge … Continue reading →

The Journalist: More Trustworthy than the Prison Snitch

Montreal (The Skwib) — In their yearly survey of how much trust we have in a variety of occupations, Leger Marketing discovered that journalists were more trusted than quite a few other occupations. Nearly 49 percent of Canadians felt that … Continue reading →

Ask General Kang: How was your technological singularity?

That is a revealing assumption, my good human buddy. What makes you think there was a technological singularity on my home planet of Neecknaw? Well, doesn’t every advanced technological society go through one? Not if they don’t want the Really … Continue reading →

Forty-seven signs of the apocalypse (#31)

From the Book of the Blessed Pie It shall come to pass that the Pharisees of the Hut will take the Blessed Pie and unto it they shall do wicked things. They will stuff the crust with their wantonness and … Continue reading →

Win a copy of my next book: The Fridgularity

There are only a few more days left to get in on the Goodreads giveaway of my new novel. You can enter to win a copy of The Fridgularity here. And here’s what the book is about (sort of, these … Continue reading →