Okaaay, a different subgenre of comedy, I guess. The “Stoner Novel.” It is designed to appeal to people who do a lot of weed and don’t want to know and don’t care about the consequences of their actions in a meaningless world. “Stupid world. Stupid life. Another day in my boring existence.” The saving grace […]
“The Hunt for the Hollywood Clone, Gavin Baller: Book 1” by Steven Heumann
This story has a character arc that resonates through the ages. In order for a man to truly change, he has to be torn away from his old life, stripped down to the essentials, and then given an opportunity to rebuild himself into the person he could be. Gavin Baller is such a character. His […]
“The Day the Sun Changed Colours” by Scott Talbot Evans
There is a certain amount of freedom in setting your Sci-Fi novel in 11,984 A.D. Society has changed so much that you don’t really have to follow any of the normal human conventions. Either in plotline, story structure, or grammar. In the tradition of “A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” this is a style of […]
“The Final Exam,” The Society Agent Series by Shaun J. McLaughlin.
This is a review of “Final Exam,” the first in a new series of very brief novels (under 50 pages) of light Science Fiction adventure. Thus it is also a review of the whole series, or at least the first four books, which I found easy to read in the time I usually allot for […]
“My Shorts” by Arthur Doweyko
Presented with a title like this and a cover image of a man in a spacesuit holding a clothesline with underwear on it, you might expect a certain amount of humour in the book. In the case of this collection, don’t expect it to be of the underwear-on-the-line variety. Any humour Mr. Doweyko blesses us […]