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Archives for July 2016

Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian – Ch 8

July 21, 2016 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Alternate title: "Styxin' It To Hades"

Alternate title: “Styxin’ It To Hades”

“Perhaps you’d like it back in your cell, your Percyness?” The events behind that shoehorned-in Star Wars quote and more on the eighth chapter of Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian, a.k.a…

I Take the Worst Bath Ever

Okay, so I was reaching for a good way to open this post, and I couldn’t find one, so I just went with Star Wars. Because reasons. Well, also because Percy was in a cell, and then soon after his escape he has quite possibly the most physically painful experience of his life. Worse than the feeling of jumping into a pit of boiling acid—times fifty? I know I’d want back in my cell. [Read more…]

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Bad Sci-Fi Theater: Cowboys vs. Dinosaurs (2015)

July 17, 2016 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Cowboys vs. Dinosaurs (2015)

Whoever wins, the viewer loses.

Bad Sci-Fi Theater!

It’s time again for Bad Sci-Fi Theater here on Geek Notes, where I watch terrible movies so you don’t have to! …Or so you can know about them and watch them, too, assuming you’re into that. (I can’t throw stones, after all.)

This one had been haunting me on Netflix for a while, showing up in my suggested movies, daring me to click on it. Hey, when you’re entertained by horrible schlock as much as I am, Netflix takes notice and throws…oh, just so much more at you. So a couple of weeks ago I finally gave in and cracked the e-seal on what would surely be a rousing sci-fi adventure!

…Right? [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Bad Sci-Fi Theater, Movies and TV Tagged With: #BSFT, Casey Fitzgerald, Cowboys vs Dinosaurs, Eric Roberts, Geek Interest, Rib Hillis, Science Fiction, twitter, Vernon Wells

Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian – Ch 7

July 7, 2016 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Alternate title: Realizing Nico Is Hitler's Half-Brother

Alternate title: I Realize Adolph Hitler Is Nico’s Half-Brother

Grover stops hitting the snooze button and everything goes to Hades! All this and more on the seventh installment of Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian, or as Riordan called this chapter…

My Math Teacher Gives Me A Lift

This one’s another react-as-I-read entry, so hold on to your butts. Before I even start in, from that chapter title I’m immediately expecting…oh, what was her name, anyway? From the first book, she was an erinye/fury. I keep wanting to say Mrs. Davenport, but that’s my seventh grade math teacher. [Read more…]

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Cover Reveal: A Dragon at the Gate

July 5, 2016 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

A Dragon at the Gate now has an official cover! The cover now has an official cover reveal! Have a look! (I’m excited!) 😀

Cover design by the talented Amalia Chitulescu. If you like the cover, please help me share it with others using the buttons at the top!

Cover design by the talented Amalia Chitulescu.
If you like the cover, please help me share it with others using the buttons at the top!

If you’ve read the rest of The New Aeneid Cycle, I’m sure you recognize by now the work of Amalia Chitulescu. I haven’t worked with her in a while, and it was great to do so again. I’m really pleased with how this one turned out. You’ll now see the image above replacing all of the temporary cover images for the book on this site.

A Dragon at the Gate officially comes out on August 17th. Be sure to follow me on Amazon or sign up for my newsletter so you don’t miss it when it drops! Got to this page from somewhere else and want to know more right now? Here ya go…

A DRAGON AT THE GATE

Michael Flynn has lost time. An operative in the worldwide conspiracy known as the Agents of Aeneas, the last thing he remembers is the struggle to retake Paragon—the derelict alien spacecraft found crashed on the Moon. Yet that was three months ago. Now, as he wakes in a hospital back in the high-tech, urban strife of Northgate, his struggle begins anew.

The Agents of Aeneas have vanished.

His friends are either missing, in danger, or altered. Hired killers shadow his every move. And Jade, the mysterious, cyber-enhanced woman watching over him, will give no answers. Thrust into a blind search for the truth, Michael needs allies. Yet whom can he trust when once loyal friends may have turned against him?

Meanwhile, an intelligence thought trapped within Paragon has escaped to Northgate. Driven to fulfill the goals of the mysterious “Planners,” it, too, seeks allies. When it finds them, it will transform the face of Northgate, the world, and the entire human race.

The year 2051 draws to a close, and nothing will be the same.


Following A Shadow in the Flames and A Memory the Black, A Dragon at the Gate is the third and final book in my cyberpunk series The New Aeneid Cycle: In the high-tech urban violence of the mid-21st century, humanity seems destined to destroy itself. Now those who seek to save it may have just found the means…
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Did I Choose My Genre? Or Did It Choose Me?

July 3, 2016 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Those two questions up there in the title were recently asked of me by a couple of other authors (well, with pronouns adjusted properly), and, after a bit of conversation, out popped this post.

It’s an interesting question to us writer-folk, and I’m betting it is to some of you reader-folk, too. Why do we write what we write, and how did we arrive there? My control-freak, gut reaction is to say that I choose my genre. I’m in control of my own destiny! I make my own choices! I not a robot, I am a human being!

Bioshock joke. Would you kindly just ignore it if you don't get it?

Bioshock joke. Would you kindly just ignore it if you don’t get it?

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