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AGENT G: INFILTRATOR Kindle giveaway and ESOTERRORISM re-release!

Happy Black Friday, folks!The first bit of good news is Amber Cove is having a HUGE sale on their books from November 24th to Monday 27th! Numerous novels of theirs are going to be available, free of...

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SCPD: The Case of the Claw by Keith DeCandido review

     SCPD: THE CASE OF THE CLAW by Keith Decandido is an excellent work that I wish I'd known about earlier. The reasons are three fold. The first is that I'm a fan of Keith Decandido's writing with...

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Covers for Winter of 2017 and all of 2018's books

Hey folks,When you're commissioning new art for your books, it's sometimes better to buy in bulk or you can potentially get caught with your pants down. The artist for The Bright Falls Mysteries,...

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The United Federation of Charles 2017 Book Awards

Hey folks,  Sculpture of HP Lovecraft by Bryan Moore/copyright 2009.It occurs to me that I have reviewed a staggering amount of stuff here on my blog but never was so arrogant to give out my own...

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Assassins Creed: Origins review

    ASSASSINS CREED: ORIGINS is a bit of a late review because I've been taking my time with this game. I often have very positive first impressions of video games, only for my opinion to start to go...

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Dex (video game) review

    One of the elements which often gets ignored in modern gaming is the indie game. With so much focus on the Triple A games being released every year, those created by smaller studio are impulse buys...

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Exploded View by Sam McPheeters review

    EXPLODED VIEW by Sam McPheeters is a neo-noir cyberpunk detective story which tales place in that delightfully sunny and depressed city of Los Angeles in the year 2050. The skyscrapers have been...

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Ex Machina (2014) review

This review contains spoilers for the ending of Ex Machina.    Ex Machina is a movie which could make an excellent psychological experiment of itself. It's one I think that functions as something of a...

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Future Noir Revised & Updated Edition: The Making of Blade Runner review

    Do you like Blade Runner? I mean, do you REALLY like Blade Runner? Well, I do REALLY-REALLY like Blade Runner. I've watched the movie dozens of times and it's really one of those films which exists...

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STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI review

    Yeah, it was okay. Actually, no, no it wasn't. I feel like this is going to be one of those movies where I'm either on the wrong side of history or ahead of my time. Basically, my opinion of the...

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13 Neo-Cyberpunk Novel Recommendations

   Cyberpunk, like all genres, has gone through a variety of stages in its life cycle. The Western, for example, went through a period which celebrated the Black and White morality of heroic cowboys...

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Life is Strange: Before the Storm review

    I am a huge fan of Life is Strange. It's basically the Twin Peaks of video games not just because it draws inspiration from that show but because it really is an incredibly different sort of game...

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Blade Runner 2049 review

    Famously, Ridley Scott and Phillip K. Dick disagreed on the role of androids in their versions of the same story. In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, they represent imperfect copies of human...

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Blade Runner 2049 - The Importance of Not Being Special

    This essay contains spoilers for Blade Runner 2049.    Blade Runner 2049 is a movie I very much enjoyed (you can read my review here) but it's an interesting film for me because I realized it...

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The Punisher: Season One review

    There's an argument the genre of superheroes is inherently fascist. It's a line which is frequently trotted out when someone wants to look smarter and put down popular culture. The argument...

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Bright (2017) review

    Screw the critics, Bright is awesome. It is also a terrible movie but it is a great terrible movie. I basically liken it one of my all time favorites in Johnny Mnemonic. Johnny Mnemonic is a...

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It Takes a Thief to Catch a Sunrise (It Takes a Thief 1#) review

        I'm a huge fan of Rob J. Hayes' writing. His The Ties That Bind and Best Laid Plans series are some of the best grimdark fantasy which has come out in the past few years. So, when I heard he...

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It Takes a Thief to Start A Fire (It Takes a Thief 2#) review

    I very much enjoyed IT TAKES A THIEF TO CATCH A SUNRISE, which was the story of two con artists in a bad situation who had to figure out how to extricate them. It also took place in a fantasy...

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AGENT G: SABOTEUR and LUCIFER'S NEBULA now available

I'm pleased to say I've got two new releases. These are the sequels to my extremely popular AGENT G: INFILTRATOR and LUCIFER'S STAR novels. Both novels are some of my best work and I hope their...

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The Guns Above (Signal Airship #1) by Robyn Bennis review

    THE GUNS ABOVE is an excellent steampunk novel which manages to include a lot of the tropes of the genre while combining them with an action movie. The book has its flaws: it tends to take the view...

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