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Archives for September 2016

Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian – Ch 16

September 30, 2016 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Alternate chapter title:

Alternate chapter title: Drakon, Drak-off

Riordan keeps killin’ people. It must be time for the sixteenth chapter of Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian…

We Get Help from a Thief

So this chapter started out heroic, turned foreboding, and swung back to heroic with a punch in the face from our friend Tragedy. Let’s get to it, shall we? [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Michael Reads, TLO Tagged With: Fantasy, Let's Read, Mythology, Percy Jackson, Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian, We Get Help from a Thief

From the Zeus Is Dead sequel…

September 25, 2016 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

As I’m currently out writing Zeus Is Dead 2 (not the official title) and I’m both easily distracted and eager to share, have a glimpse of a tiny section from the first draft of the book. Will it make it into the final draft? Will it be edited? Will I decide the blatant Walking Dead reference is too much? Who knows!

Zeus Is Undead Exerpt

Haven’t read the original Zeus Is Dead: A Monstrously Inconvenient Adventure (which contains no zombies whatsoever but does feature venomous, bat-winged kitten swarms)? There’s no time like the present to start!

In which reality TV heroes slay actual monsters and the Greek gods have their own Twitter feeds...

In which reality TV heroes slay actual monsters and the Greek gods have their own Twitter feeds…

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Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian – Ch 15

September 18, 2016 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Alternate chapter title:

Alternate chapter title: Party Crashing

Pandemonium, ponies, and Pac-Man! That can only possibly mean that it’s time for the fifteenth chapter in Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian, a.k.a…

Chiron Throws a Party

I’m going stream-of-consciousness as I read for this one folks, so strap in! Immediately we’ve got giants ripping up trees in the park, dracaenae in Rockafellar Center, and I’m suddenly wondering: just how many sleeping mortals are getting trampled, burned, folded, spindled, or mutilated in all of this? And how many New York pigeons and rats? [Read more…]

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Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian – Ch 14

September 15, 2016 By Michael G. Munz 1 Comment

Chapter 14!

Alternate chapter title: “Unexpected Bacon”

More answers, more troubles, and a gigantic flying sow I didn’t even know existed. Curious? Then it’s time for the fourteenth installment of Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian…

Pigs Fly

So Percy gets a triple-vision this time as he goes to rest, but before I get there, I’d like to give Thalia a kudo or three for giving some sound, needed counsel to Percy at the start of the chapter: Don’t let what Prometheus said lead Percy to being soft on Luke. Despite his situation, Luke is responsible for the bad choices he’s made. After the last chapter’s parley set a bit uncertainty in both Percy and the reader (or at least, this reader), Thalia helps him to get grounded and refocused. [Read more…]

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Get A Shadow in the Flames FREE!

September 14, 2016 By Michael G. Munz

A Shadow in the Flames, the first book in my now complete cyberpunk series The New Aeneid Cycle, is now available for FREE on Kindle, Nook, iTunes, and Kobo! Start the series for free today! (Or tomorrow, or Friday. You know, whatever.) 😀

It’s already the #2 free cyberpunk genre book on Amazon!

As of 5:40pm PST on Sept 14th. Sights set on #1...

As of 5:40pm PST on Sept 14th. Sights set on #1…

 

Now FREE!

Now FREE!

Northgate is in turmoil. Decaying, violent, and corrupt, it is a common enough city in 2051, yet soon, discoveries beneath the Moon’s surface will mark the city with their first distant echoes.

New arrival Michael Flynn is jobless and down to his last few dollars, but he still dreams of making a positive difference of his own. He has no family, no friends—save for the freelancer known only as Diomedes—and tonight the apartment they share will burn to the ground.

When Diomedes becomes his mentor in a search for the arsonist responsible, Michael will get the chance to realize his dreams. Joining them is Felix, a wise-cracking “information bounty hunter” who claims that neither the arsonist nor the man Michael idolizes are quite what they appear.

Will Michael find the courage to pass through the flames unscathed, or will the violence that surrounds him incinerate all that he is? Those who search the Moon will be watching…

And now it’s free!

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Review UPDATE! – Deus Ex: Mankind Divided – Wait, WHAT?

September 10, 2016 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Well, poop.

Well, poop.

So I’ve now completed Deus Ex: Mankind Divided after my review post two days ago. Remember how I said that, judging by the story so far at that point, I guessed I was maybe a third of the way in? I guessed wrong, and everything is suddenly so unsatisfying.

My “probably one third in” point turned out to be three quarters in. My amazement at how much larger the game hubs were compared to Human Revolution based on what I’d seen in Prague? That’s because Prague is the ONLY hub. My judgment based on the developments of the story? That’s because the story just stops! [Read more…]

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Game Review – Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

September 8, 2016 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

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Wait, it’s been FIVE YEARS since Human Revolution came out?! Damn it, time, stop moving so fast!

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, has been out for PC for two weeks now, and it’s more than time for my review…

If you know anything about my gaming tastes, you probably know that Deus Ex, released in 2000 by developer Ion Storm, is one of my favorites. With expensive environments, multiple gameplay styles, and character customization on top of a lengthy sci-fi plot that’s a conspiracy theorist’s dream, it won over 30 “best of” awards in 2001. Though the sequel was disappointing to say the least, 2011’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution–while not without flaws of its own–brought the series back to being worthy of players’ time. And now we’ve got Mankind Divided, taking place two years after the events of Human Revolution (which itself takes place 25 years before the original). [Read more…]

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