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Archives for September 2015

Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Battle of the Labyrinth – Ch 1

September 30, 2015 By Michael G. Munz 5 Comments

But does Rachel get any credit?

*I* Battle…? Doesn’t Rachel get any credit?

Percy wastes no time causing another disaster, but that’s okay, because without that, we wouldn’t have the first installment of Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Battle of the Labyrinth! It begins with…

I Battle the Cheerleading Squad

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Filed Under: TBotL Tagged With: Fantasy, I Battle the Cheerleading Squad, Let's Read, Mythology, Percy Jackson, Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

Shadows on the Sound Podcast: Evil AIs and Me

September 23, 2015 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Shadows on the Sound Podcast, Episode 20: Evil A.I.! (click to listen)

Artificial Intelligence is slowly becoming a reality. Perhaps the Singularity is even next week. Sci-fi is filled with artificial intelligences that were born evil, turned evil, or had evil thrust upon them. A Memory in the Black, the second book in my sci-fi/cyberpunk series, introduces the A.I. known as Suuthrien. Whether or not Suuthrien is truly evil is just something you’ll have to wait and see about in A Dragon at the Gate, but the wonderful geeks Camela and Z.D. over at the Shadows of the Sound podcast invited me, along with another entity known only as Archangel, to discuss the concept of evil A.I., and things like what sort of loopholes can you find when determining what causes “harm” to us human-type meatbags.

So head on over to Shadows on the Sound and have a listen, before the metal ones come for you…

"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid this blog entry can no longer serve a useful purpose..."

“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid this blog entry can no longer serve a useful purpose…”

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Filed Under: A Memory in the Black, Featured, Movies and TV Tagged With: artificial intelligence, Geek Interest, podcast, Science Fiction, Shadows on the Sound

Guest Geeks: Cain S. Latrani and the Zombie Hordes

September 15, 2015 By Michael G. Munz 5 Comments

Guest GeeksI kind of missed an opportunity here in that it’s only been a couple of weeks since the last Guest Geek post. Given today’s topic, if I’d waited a few months, I could have said that this feature is rising from the dead, which would fit in perfectly with guest Cain S. Latrani’s topic.
But that would’ve meant making you all wait far too long to read this awesome post. So why make you wait any longer? Read on, but hold onto your brains…

Fantastic Zombies And Where To Find Them

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Filed Under: Featured, Guest Geeks, Movies and TV Tagged With: Cain S. Latrani, Gakkou Gurashi, Geek Interest, School Live, The Walking Dead, Zombies

Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse – Final Thoughts

September 14, 2015 By Michael G. Munz 1 Comment

Still thinkin' Bianca's alive...

Still thinkin’ Bianca’s alive…

So at last I bid a fond farewell to The Titan’s Curse. Though this one also took me the longest to blog my way through, that’s nothing to do with my enjoyment of it. In fact, this is my favorite of the series so far. Things got complex, stakes got higher, and save for my dislike of the junkyard, I enjoyed everywhere the plot and characters went. I’m eager to see how book 4 measures up.

But first, let’s look over my flailing attempts at predicting the book before I cracked the cover!

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Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse – Ch 20

September 7, 2015 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Hey, does this make Nico Hitler's half-brother?

Hey, does this make Nico Hitler’s half-brother? …That’s an unpleasant thought.

At long last! It’s the final chapter of The Titan’s Curse! It’s the final installment of Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse! It’s the first chapter called:

I Get A New Enemy for Christmas

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Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse – Ch 19

September 5, 2015 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Michael Reads The Titan's Curse: Chapter 19

In which Mr. Moo gets a stay of execution, and in which no one calls him Mr. Moo but me.

So I’ll be the first to admit that my reading of The Titan’s Curse has gone really slowly—far slower than I’d have liked to have done for you all who have been with me on the journey. I feel bad about that, and the book itself is now piling on:

For a minute we stood there regarding the palace, the way we’d stood together in front of Westover Hall, what seemed like a million years ago.

I know, book! I know! (Wait, what do you mean it’s not all about me?) Anyway, no more stalling! On we go with the nineteenth post in Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse, aka… [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Michael Reads, TTC Tagged With: Fantasy, Let's Read, Mythology, Percy Jackson, Star Trek, The Gods Vote How to Kill Us, The Titan's Curse, Three Amigos

Zeus Is Dead Wins Bronze in the 2015 Readers’ Favorite Book Awards!

September 1, 2015 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Bronze Medalist: 2015 Readers' Favorite Awards

Bronze Medalist: 2015 Readers’ Favorite Awards

Exciting news! Zeus Is Dead: A Monstrously Inconvenient Adventure, just won the bronze medal for General Fantasy in the 2015 Readers’ Favorite Book Awards! (There was no category for Comedic Fantasy, or Fantasy With Greek Gods on TV and Exploding Venomous Kittens.)

You can check out the full contest results in all their glory (and see Zeus Is Dead among the group so you can check my story) on the Readers’ Favorite site here!

Haven’t experienced the comedic fantasy novel reviewers have called “a hilarious mythological tale of god-like proportions”? Pick it up today!

(What? I’ve got to shill at least a little here, don’t I?)

Zeus Is Dead Awards

Bronze Medalist: 2015 Readers’ Favorite Book Awards
~and~
Finalist: 2015 IAN Book of the Year Awards and Semi-Finalist: 2015 Kindle Book Awards

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Filed Under: Books, Featured, Press, Zeus Is Dead Tagged With: Book Awards, Fantasy, Mythology, Readers' Favorite Awards

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