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"Earth: The Love Invasion" Now Available On Amazon
I'm putting on my hat as a publisher (Hottitude Press) for this one to promote Barry Anderson's "Earth: The Love Invasion."
As I wrote in the foreword to that book:
“Earth: The Love Invasion” is a modern reinvention of the sort of books that Harry Harrison and Mack Reynolds were writing back in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. Disguised as pulp SF adventures, they were also sharp sociological critiques of US and Western society. Readers enjoyed the well-written pulpy adventure but also left with a different vision of the world they lived in.
A couple of years ago, I invented Collar World, primarily as a place for me to write maledom/femsub erotica without having to constantly be referencing vanilla culture as I would have to in a story set on contemporary Earth. No critiques intended, it was just a tool to write about kinky relationships without referencing vanilla relationships. When Barry Anderson asked if he could borrow Collar World to create a vehicle for non-erotic science fiction stories that look at Earth through alien eyes, I was enormously flattered and was happy to give him the go-ahead, especially since I figured it would never happen.
How wrong I was! This is actually his second Collar World-based novel, and at 100,000 words, it's longer than anything I've written based on Collar World. And it's tremendous fun to read. Anderson captured the joy of the pulp SF novels but has conceived them in modern terms, so the story doesn't feel campy or quaint. Anderson is skilled at creating lively, believable characters and he writes sharp, snappy dialogue for them. Like its predecessors, “The Love Invasion” has a point to make and makes it strongly. I'm very proud that Mr. Anderson used my Collar World stories to create the alien viewpoint that sees the world we live in so clearly.
I'll stand by those words.
As I wrote in the foreword to that book:
“Earth: The Love Invasion” is a modern reinvention of the sort of books that Harry Harrison and Mack Reynolds were writing back in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. Disguised as pulp SF adventures, they were also sharp sociological critiques of US and Western society. Readers enjoyed the well-written pulpy adventure but also left with a different vision of the world they lived in.
A couple of years ago, I invented Collar World, primarily as a place for me to write maledom/femsub erotica without having to constantly be referencing vanilla culture as I would have to in a story set on contemporary Earth. No critiques intended, it was just a tool to write about kinky relationships without referencing vanilla relationships. When Barry Anderson asked if he could borrow Collar World to create a vehicle for non-erotic science fiction stories that look at Earth through alien eyes, I was enormously flattered and was happy to give him the go-ahead, especially since I figured it would never happen.
How wrong I was! This is actually his second Collar World-based novel, and at 100,000 words, it's longer than anything I've written based on Collar World. And it's tremendous fun to read. Anderson captured the joy of the pulp SF novels but has conceived them in modern terms, so the story doesn't feel campy or quaint. Anderson is skilled at creating lively, believable characters and he writes sharp, snappy dialogue for them. Like its predecessors, “The Love Invasion” has a point to make and makes it strongly. I'm very proud that Mr. Anderson used my Collar World stories to create the alien viewpoint that sees the world we live in so clearly.
I'll stand by those words.
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