Book Review: The Psychic’s Memoirs Ryan Hyatt, 271 pages I had the pleasure of reading a draft of Ryan Hyatt’s The Psychic’s Memoirs in early 2019. Remember 2019? That feeling of disconnect with the world, but a hint of familiarity is… Read More ›
Reviews
To move forward, try looking back: Book review, lessons on Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
Ambrose Bierce, Forgotten Books (2012), 300 pages My stepfather gave me Tales of Soldiers and Civilians as a Christmas gift. Dan read my sci-fi novel, Rise of the Liberators, and I suspect he wanted to encourage me to write more… Read More ›
The death that tells the story of a generation
Book Review: Gone at Midnight Jake Anderson, Kensington Books, 368 pages Gone at Midnight by Jake Anderson is a beautifully written account of the horrible events surrounding the death of Elisa Lam, the young woman whose corpse was recovered from… Read More ›
Love Letter to Deep State
Love Letter to Deep State: A Review of Watchmen in Verse By Ryan Hyatt When I was a boy, you took pains to include me in overnights reading Watchmen, playing Rush’n Attack, Axis & Allies, Supremacy: Sipping Dr. Pepper and munching Twizzlers… Read More ›
Youthful angst ignites ‘anti-righteous’ rebellion
Book Review: Dystopia Boy Trevor Richardson, Montag Press, 558 pages In Dystopia Boy, the coming-of-age charm of Stand By Me meets the cyberpunk possibilities of The Matrix to create a near-future, rock ‘n’ roll-inspired ride through a neglected American heartland… Read More ›
Getting woke with ‘Insomnium:’ Interview with Scott Powers
Shortly after high school graduation, in the summer of 1995, Scott Powers and a few friends of mine borrowed a van and picked me up on the way from Chicago, Illinois to take a cross-country trip to Lake Mammoth, California…. Read More ›
Canadian city shaken by timequake
Book Review: I Ain’t Got No Home In This World Anymore Mike Sauve, Montag Press, 192 pages There is perhaps no greater trope used in science fiction than time travel, and there is perhaps no greater reason for traveling in… Read More ›
Justice in the mouths of lizards
Book Review: Co-Evolution, Food Chain Wars Vol. 1 Arthur Weissmann There is a primal rage that exists within many of us that desires a special kind of hell for those hard-core criminals who commit rape, molestation, and murder, and while… Read More ›
Prophetic sci-fi writer remains unknown, for now
Book Review: Dead Monkeys A.L. Lorentz Once in a generation a science fiction novel is released for public consumption that is so visionary in premise and so masterfully written that it is immediately embraced by the masses and becomes an… Read More ›
Weather forecast calls for clear skies and air strikes
Book Review: Stories Of An Awkward Size Jonathan Swords-Holdsworth, 313 pages Good science fiction is thought-provoking. It makes us reconsider our place in the world in ways that is often dramatic and unsettling. Unlike mysteries or romances, genres built around… Read More ›
The La-La Lander 