Author Archives
I tell stories about your future.
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Brain-damaged hockey star resists The People’s justice
Book Review: Outrage Level 10, Lucy Leitner Necro Publications, 328 pages Horror, in my opinion, takes itself too seriously. In the non-stop, adrenaline-pounding quest to put readers on edge, the genre often fails to move beyond its time-honored tropes around… Read More ›
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‘Pow!’ soda disrupts consumers’ reality
Interview with Lee Matthew Goldberg, author of Orange City Growing up, I enjoyed orange soda and feared spiders, and both feature prominently in Lee Matthew Goldberg’s first science-fiction novel, Orange City, which offers a second chance for felons and outcasts… Read More ›
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Shirking duty leads deputy to rosy hell of disappointment
Book Review: Captain Clive’s Dreamworld Jon Bassoff, Eraserhead Press, 234 pages Early in Deputy Sam Hardy’s adulthood, he marries a woman he loves, they have a daughter they are too poor to support, so they give her up for adoption…. Read More ›
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Name your favorite bands!
Book review: Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Gillian McCain and Legs McNeil, Grove Press, 448 pages It’s time for a music test. Name your top-five rock bands. Here are mine: The Rolling Stones The Velvet Underground… Read More ›
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Thread of optimism weaves tales of climate heroes
Book Review: Ten Journeys on a Fragile Planet Rod Taylor, Odyssey Books, 284 pages The assault to the environment currently underway by global warming continues to have noticeable impact on Los Angeles, where I live, in which blazes surrounding the… Read More ›
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Mystical science to transform barren planet to paradise
Book Review: Dune Frank Herbert, ACE, 884 pages For science-fiction fans, Frank Herbert’s Dune was often introduced during a high school or college English class. For anyone with an interest in the fate of humanity, the 900-page tome became required… Read More ›
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Witnesses: Time traveler explores ‘infinite tedium of cosmos’
HILL VALLEY – A man believed to regularly travel through time uses his unique temporal abilities to measure how little food he can consume and other ways to have as little impact on the past, present, and future as possible,… Read More ›
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Interview: Midnight Cities burns brightly with Shake My Heart
Recently, I listened to Midnight Cities’ debut album, Shake My Heart, while heading home from a sun-soaked day at the beach. It had been a perfect summer outing; even traffic was clear as I drove along the Wilshire corridor, top… Read More ›