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.
Zeus Is Dead Wins Bronze in the 2015 Readers’ Favorite Book 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?)
Writing Update: A Dragon at the Gate & Zeus Is Dead 2
Writing a story never quite goes the way you think it will.
Something always changes along the way, even if you plan ahead of time. Things occur to you while writing, characters take control in your head, and sometimes just the act of getting an idea on paper brings out its negative points that didn’t seem nearly so problematic beforehand. And that’s not a bad thing; often this leads to something better in the end.
Yet that voyage of discovery takes time, especially when you–and here when I say “you” I mean “me”–are not the fastest writer in the world. How I long for the prolific rate of Stephen King, but that’s just not how my mind works. (Also, Stephen King doesn’t have a non-writing day job taking up his time.) And all that is my lead-in to saying that A Dragon at the Gate is not progressing as quickly as I’d like. [Read more…]
Zeus Is Dead is a 2015 IAN Book of the Year Award Finalist!
Zeus Is Dead: A Monstrously Inconvenient Adventure just got its first big honor: a FINALIST in the 2015 Independent Author Network Book of the Year Awards! And there’s even a snazzy looking seal to prove it…
So of course I’m taking the opportunity here to re-plug the book, which fantasy author Jody Lyn Nye called “full of laugh-out-loud moments, lashings of sly wit, moan-worthy puns, and a complex, fast-paced storyline.”
“I have not enjoyed a tongue-in-cheek comedy book this much in a long, long time.”
–Abyss & Apex Magazine
THE GODS ARE BACK.
DID YOU MYTH THEM?
Book Review: Crooked by Austin Grossman
“What if our nation’s worst president was actually a pivotal figure caught in a desperate struggle between ordinary life and horrors from another reality? What if the man we call our worst president was, in truth, our greatest?”
These are the questions posed by the new novel Crooked by Austin Grossman—indeed, the quoted text is from the official book description—into which I recently immersed myself.
The moment I heard Crooked’s premise, it grabbed my interest: a supernatural, Lovecraftian layer to not just the Watergate scandal but to Nixon’s full political career, the entire Cold War, and the institution of the U.S. Presidency itself. (Note: The novel is alternative history, and not meant as some sort of non-fiction conspiracy exposé.) I knew I was going to read it. What I got was a book with a fantastic first half that stumbles toward the end and ultimately leaves me disappointed. [Read more…]
Totem Animals and the Doublesight Novels
Hi everyone! I’ve got a special guest post for you today. My fellow author Terry Persun’s new fantasy novel Gargoyle, the 4th book in his Doublesight series, has recently been published by Booktrope, and I’m pleased to have him here today to tell you about his Doublesight series, and the shape shifters therein. Take it away, Terry! (And be sure to check out the Rafflecopter at the end for a chance to win some free books!)
Totem Animals and the Doublesight Novels
I read a lot. So when I come up with an idea, I try to separate my idea from what everyone else appears to be doing. This isn’t always easy, but it’s worth the effort every time. So when I started to play around with the idea for my Doublesight series, I wanted my shape shifters to be unique. [Read more…]
Book Review: The Primary Protocol
J.M. Guillen’s The Primary Protocol wastes no time in plunging us back into his eldrich world of technologically augmented agents waging a secret battle with Lovecraftian forces that threaten to overrun our rational realm. The cosmic horror of the Vyriim, introduced in Rationality Zero (the spawn point of this series), have threaded their nightmarish tentacles further into our world, seeking a beachhead, and as The Primary Protocol begins, we—and protagonist Michael Bishop—are already right in the thick of it. [Read more…]
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