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Monthly Archives: April 2017
The Only Part of You He Had
Eight months. Eight months she’d been gone. Buried under a litany of nightmares and choked down tears. You spend enough time crying eventually you to hide it, let it out it bursts, little moments of weakness as the new status … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Fiction
Tagged cancer, Loss, Love, mourning, opening old wounds, pain, post-it note, rediscovery, sexybutt, suicide, tears
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Book Review: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
In an interview, Wright mentioned that he was using three tome-filled bookcases in order to do research on the book that would eventually become The Looming Tower. Now, I’ve never written a non-fiction book, hell, by any reasonable standard I … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Nonfiction
Tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, american history, Extremism, history, Islam, Lawrence Wright, politics, religion, terrorism, The Looming Tower, war
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Book Review: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
I first met Stephenson back in 2004 in a copy of Cryptonomicon I found at Barnes and Noble. I read the first couple chapters, enjoyed it and then made a terrible mistake. I looked at the author biography in the … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, fiction
Tagged america, Anarcho-Capitalism, Author Bio, cyberpunk, Hackers, Neal Stephenson, post-cyberpunk, religion, science fiction, Snow Crash, Virtual Reality, William Gibson
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Book Review: Enchanted Objects by David Rose
I’m only just now getting into this whole futurist thing. I’m not happy with the present so I’ve decided that I’m going to consume as many potential futures as I can and drive stoned and screaming into the one … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Nonfiction
Tagged Animism, black slabs, business, David Rose, Design, Enchanted Objects, futurism, Human Desire, Internet of Things, Invention, Robots, science, Technology
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Bodies
Dead men. Dozens of the them litter the street, eyes hollow like the blackened core of rotten trees. Some still twitch others, fester quietly in the wet chaos of the road, oblivious to the mounds of traffic racing past them … Continue reading
Book Review: Normal by Warren Ellis
You ever just sit down and then start typing and typing and then you awaken some hours later only to realize that you’ve ended up with something almost coherent? You sit at the bar staring at your laptop, eyes darting … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, fiction
Tagged abyss gaze, civil futurists, cyberpunk, futurism, mental asylum, mystery, Normal, novella, post-cyberpunk, science fiction, speculative fiction, techno-dystopia, Warren Ellis
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Book Review: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
When a loved one dies there is always some(or one) among the grief stricken who are left with the task of writing an obituary. There are people at the paper, at the memorials, who can help, but the burden still … Continue reading
Book Review: Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-extinction by Helen Pilcher
A well-meaning book with and overbearing authorial voice. It reads like a series of separate essays that have been piled together and called a book. Constant callbacks met with (see Chapter ~) seems to have this point to an almost … Continue reading
Book Review: Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
Reinterpreting Shakespeare is one of those things that seems obvious on paper, I mean Shakespeare himself borrowed large swaths of his ideas of those that came before him, so turning it into a cycle is an obvious get. The problem … Continue reading
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Tagged Classic Retellings, classics, fantasy, grief, Hag-Seed, Hogarth Shakespeare, Margaret Atwood, prison, Revenge, Shakespeare, The Tempest, theatre
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