FLASH-BANG!
FLASH-BANG!
MOST years of my life I recall with sort of smoothly blended aura handing about the memories. Very warm and fuzzy. 2020 — the Year of the Plague — I recall like a series of flash-bangs, each followed by some days of being stunned. Whether COVID-19; the sudden man-love between the USA president and an increasingly despicable passel of dictators; the worldwide economic crisis; the too-numerable-to-count outright lies, deceits and the sudden emergence of propaganda; the failing of our infrastructures, one after another; the need to return to civil “rioting;” the need to distance and mask in order to simply stay alive. Flash! Bang!
During the mess of 2008, when asked what I though was going on, I said to a colleague that I thought the world was falling into a new Dark Age, and I wrote about it in TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese. A man-love adventure, touching on the LGBTQ, it nonetheless presented readers with a first plausible, science-based futuring. I didn’t recognize it at the time as an entirely new genre — which it is — quite distinct from science fiction and fantasy. However, with THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor focused on a plausible, science-based futuring surrounding recovery from a national meltdown, I did recognize the new genre, and have felt proud to have introduced it.
Set in the near future, THE EDGE OF MADNESS explores the evolving relationships between three friends, all of whom know little to nothing about their past and even less about their futures. What they do know is that each is unusually gifted: Rob, an uber-conscious male with an enhanced sense of smell; Frann, an ostentatious gay male with an Olympian physique; and Andry, a brilliant moon-child and professional acronymeur with a taste for Wicca…and her two male friends.
From the publisher at https://checkout.square.site/buy/4MI5... with free shipping within the USA
From any of the four Savant national Bookstores at https://savant-bookstore-honolulu.squ... at a 10% complimentary discount and free shipping within the USA
From Amazon.com in printed or eBook format at https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
From The Book Depository with free shipping internationally at https://www.bookdepository.com/The-Ed...
THE EDGE OF MADNESS is an exploration of a plausible, possible future, where every hedonistic pleasure is available — if one can afford it. People work in order to purchase the newest technologies promising ultimate pleasure. But as in Aldous Huxley’s BRAVE NEW WORLD and George Orwell’s 1984, citizens are watched carefully by emotionless “Enforcers” who show up anytime unusual events occur.
Like Huxley and Orwell’s works, THE EDGE OF MADNESS has something to say about almost everything present and future. But it’s also a love triangle and a coming-of-age story of three youths in a future where anything and everything goes. The ultimate question for them is: Can true love or sanity be found in such a world?
This story will make some excited about what the future may hold while others may recoil at a world of such extremes. Either way, it’s an engaging ride in a world where, for example, teachers and students appear holographically together in instructional classrooms while remaining safely at home, begging the question of what, if anything, in this future world is “real.” Put on your CandyShades, breathe in a little ContraSpray and settle back for a T-rip like never before.
The Edge of Madness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je6CC...
MOST years of my life I recall with sort of smoothly blended aura handing about the memories. Very warm and fuzzy. 2020 — the Year of the Plague — I recall like a series of flash-bangs, each followed by some days of being stunned. Whether COVID-19; the sudden man-love between the USA president and an increasingly despicable passel of dictators; the worldwide economic crisis; the too-numerable-to-count outright lies, deceits and the sudden emergence of propaganda; the failing of our infrastructures, one after another; the need to return to civil “rioting;” the need to distance and mask in order to simply stay alive. Flash! Bang!
During the mess of 2008, when asked what I though was going on, I said to a colleague that I thought the world was falling into a new Dark Age, and I wrote about it in TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese. A man-love adventure, touching on the LGBTQ, it nonetheless presented readers with a first plausible, science-based futuring. I didn’t recognize it at the time as an entirely new genre — which it is — quite distinct from science fiction and fantasy. However, with THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor focused on a plausible, science-based futuring surrounding recovery from a national meltdown, I did recognize the new genre, and have felt proud to have introduced it.
Set in the near future, THE EDGE OF MADNESS explores the evolving relationships between three friends, all of whom know little to nothing about their past and even less about their futures. What they do know is that each is unusually gifted: Rob, an uber-conscious male with an enhanced sense of smell; Frann, an ostentatious gay male with an Olympian physique; and Andry, a brilliant moon-child and professional acronymeur with a taste for Wicca…and her two male friends.
From the publisher at https://checkout.square.site/buy/4MI5... with free shipping within the USA
From any of the four Savant national Bookstores at https://savant-bookstore-honolulu.squ... at a 10% complimentary discount and free shipping within the USA
From Amazon.com in printed or eBook format at https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
From The Book Depository with free shipping internationally at https://www.bookdepository.com/The-Ed...
THE EDGE OF MADNESS is an exploration of a plausible, possible future, where every hedonistic pleasure is available — if one can afford it. People work in order to purchase the newest technologies promising ultimate pleasure. But as in Aldous Huxley’s BRAVE NEW WORLD and George Orwell’s 1984, citizens are watched carefully by emotionless “Enforcers” who show up anytime unusual events occur.
Like Huxley and Orwell’s works, THE EDGE OF MADNESS has something to say about almost everything present and future. But it’s also a love triangle and a coming-of-age story of three youths in a future where anything and everything goes. The ultimate question for them is: Can true love or sanity be found in such a world?
This story will make some excited about what the future may hold while others may recoil at a world of such extremes. Either way, it’s an engaging ride in a world where, for example, teachers and students appear holographically together in instructional classrooms while remaining safely at home, begging the question of what, if anything, in this future world is “real.” Put on your CandyShades, breathe in a little ContraSpray and settle back for a T-rip like never before.
The Edge of Madness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je6CC...
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