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Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
Unholy Domain: Where Science and Religion Go to WarReviewd by Stuart Nachbar
Dan Ronco’s Unholy Domain is a science fiction story that is very much a mix between George Orwell’s 1984 and Philip Dick’s Minority Report.
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I loved the movie Minority Report, so I was anxious to read Domain, and it did not disappoint. While the author is a technologist himself, he doesn’t get the reader lost in technical and computer jargon; that is often a distraction with similar “intelligent” science fiction novels that assume the reader already knows most of the science before he opens the book. His descriptions of robots and PeaceMaker, the killer app were quick and to the point and made me want to continue reading the story. |
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Wednesday, 21 May 2008 |
Lifetime Loser: Satire and Suspense on the LinksReviewed By Stuart Nachbar
James Ross’ Lifetime Loser is the story of a multi-million dollar estate real swindle by a humorous cast of con artists, and one unsuspecting golf pro who tries to make things right.
If you enjoy Carl Hiassen or Harlan Coben stories, and you’re deeply into golf, you will enjoy Lifetime Loser. The con artists are similarly developed: they have their slick moments, and their clumsy ones as well. They are just vulnerable and stupid enough, and full enough of themselves to get caught—and they do. It just takes 15 years to solve the crime, an extremely long time period for a story of this type.
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J Dub is a likeable and gullible fool; everyone around the man knows that Lew is cheating him, but he does nothing about it. He gets plenty of good advice from regular patrons to Prairie Winds, Julie his bookkeeper and office manager, his wife Marcia and, his brother Curt, but it takes years for that advice to finally sink into his head—and when it does, it’s almost too late and even an aggressive U.S. Attorney and the Internal Revenue Service are unable to help. He’s allowed the statute of limitations to compromise any case he has. |
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Saturday, 26 April 2008 |
Review By Stuart Nachbar
Susan Walerstein’s Dancing Above the Waves could have been named Dancing Above the Quicksand, for the way the main character, Boston publisher Jack “Scooter” McCalister tries to dig himself out of travesties, only to find himself sinking into deeper trouble instead.
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McCalister is not the only self-absorbed character in Dancing; he has an equally self-absorbed wife, Sherry whom he shares a business and a taste for finer things, but their tastes are independent of each other. They jointly run a high-society magazine and put on the public image of a happy and successful couple, but in real life they don’t want to be together much longer and their magazine desperately needs new money to survive. I was left to wonder if Jack wanted to leave Sherry because he sees things that he doesn’t like about himself in the way he conducts his business and in his marriage. |
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Friday, 01 February 2008 |
Interviewing Erik Quisling - Author of Fable from the Mud  Fables from the Mud Erik Quisling: I initially came up with the idea for Fables from the Mud shortly after I graduated college. In the course of my soul searching and trying to figure out my place in the world, I was struck with the idea of a clam who was trying to do the exact same thing. For some reason it struck me as extremely amusing. This is how The Angry Clam, the first fable in my book, was born. Lauren Smith: Do you see Fables From the Mud as a satire, cultural commentary or something more? Erik Quisling: Fables From The Mud is about three little creatures – a clam, an ant, and a worm – all of whom are struggling with very human problems. The stories are satirical but in many ways are simply a cultural commentary on the human obsession with finding meaning in the world. All in all, they are designed to be amusing and to get you to see somewhat the absurdity of taking life too seriously. Lauren Smith: How did you develop each of the fables? Erik Quisling: Each fable was born from its own separate bout of inspiration. In each case, it was a single line of text that came to me that was like lighting a fuse that set the story on its course. Once the fuse was lit, the stories pretty much wrote themselves – I simply had to go back and edit them a little bit. |
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Monday, 05 November 2007 |
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Lauren Smith: What is your book about? The cover describes it as "Mormon cyberpunk."  Hunting Gideon
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