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August 26, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 366
Short story: The Bride of the Man-Horse by Lord Dunsany, from The Book of Wonder.
Poem: Amorous Friendship by Belle Randall, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from August 2017. Recommended.
Essay: Relic Japanese Soldiers, listened to on the Skeptoid podcast, from August 2017. Recommended.
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August 25, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 365
Short story: 400 Boys by Mark Laidlaw, from Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology, edited by Bruce Sterling. Highly Recommended.
Poem: Goodwill, Buffalo, NY by Kimberly Lyons, listened to on the Poetry Now podcast, from August 2017. Recommended.
Essay: Francis Bacon by Justin Champion, listened to on the BBC’s A History of Ideas podcast, from January 2015. Recommended.
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August 24, 2017
Announcing: The Wizard of the Wasteland audio edition is now available!
The Wizard of the Wasteland audiobook is now available to download from iTunes and Audible.
The audiobook is narrated by Ian Coleman, and I couldn’t be more pleased with the results. The narration adds a nice new dimension to the story.
Finding hope in a hopeless world…
Abel survived the apocalypse but drugs nearly killed him. He scratches out a living scavenging for anything of value until he witnesses something incredible…the Wizard of the Wasteland.
When Abel joins the travelling showman, passing off pre-apocalypse technology as objects of magic and intrigue, they come upon a horrifying sight: a group of children enslaved by the brutal drug gang The Family.
As he and the wizard take on the challenge of freeing the slaves, Abel must resist the temptations of a world without hope. To keep the kids from reliving his miserable existence, he’ll have to risk everything. Even having the wizard on his side may not be enough…
Wizard of the Wasteland is a post-apocalyptic action adventure novel for fans of Fallout, The Stand, Alas, Babylon, and The Road. If you like unforgettable characters, gripping action, and new takes on dystopian survival tales, then you’ll love the first book in Jon Cronshaw’s thrilling new series.
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The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 364
Short story: The Adventure of the Stockbrokers Clerk by Arthur Conan Doyle, from the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Recommended.
Poem: Despair by H. P. Lovecraft, listened to on the Voice Before the Void podcast. Recommended.
Essay: The Secret to Living Longer May Be Your Social Life by Susan Pinker, listened to on the TEDTalks podcast, from August 2017. Highly Recommended.
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August 23, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 363
Short story: The Hum by Rick Hautala, from The End of the World by Robert H. Greenberg (ed.), 2010.
Poem: Perihan by Sara Deniz Akant, listened to on the Poetry Now podcast, from August 2017. Highly Recommended.
Essay: Diesel Engine, listened to on the BBC’s 50 Things that Made the World podcast, from November 2016. Highly Recommended.
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August 22, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 362
Short Story: The Adventure of the Yellow Face by Arthur Conan Doyle, from the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Poem: Inkwell… Daybreak by Jean Valentine, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from August 2017. Recommended.
Essay: Making the Weaker Argument the Stronger – the Sophists, listened to on the History of Philosophy podcast, from January 2011. Recommended.
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August 21, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 361
Short story: A Very Short Story by Ernest Hemingway, from Collected Short Stories. Highly Recommended.
Poem: As Poem is a City by Charles Bukowski, from Bukowski: Essential Poetry. Recommended.
Essay: Has Technology Rewired Our Brains? by Tom Chatfield, listened to on the BBC’s A History of Ideas podcast, from January 2015. Recommended.
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August 20, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 360
Short story: The Spook School by Nick Mamatas, from Nightmare magazine, August 2017. Highly Recommended.
Poem: Somewhere Thuban is Fading by Rosebud Ben-Oni, listened to on the Poem of the Day, from August 2017. Recommended.
Essay: Highly Recommended.
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August 19, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 359
Short story: A Simple Enquiry by Ernest Hemingway, from Collected Short Stories. Recommended.
Poem: Beans with Garlic by Charles Bukowski, from Bukowski: Essential Poetry. Recommended.
Essay: Sutton Hoo Helmet, listened to on the BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects, from June 2010. Highly Recommended.
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August 18, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 358
Short story: Unfurl/ed by Jes Rausch, from Strange Horizons, August 2017.
Poem: All Kinds of Fires Inside Our Heads by Nikki Wallschlaeger, listened to on the Poetry Now podcast, from August 2017. Highly Recommended.
Essay: Eclipse Myths and Science, listened to on the Skeptoid podcast, from August 2017. Recommended.
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