Category - Blurbs

After a series of failed attempts to start new business ventures, the main character known as LP has returned to college to study his first love, music and recording. As the story progresses, LP discovers a ‘glitch’ with a digital recording of one of his favourite songs. He investigates further and discovers a number of other songs that also have these very minute changes compared to analog recordings. He takes them to his recording instructor (John Atman) and they explore the issue further. Atman introduces LP to an internationally renowned ‘omnibioacoustics’ expert (Eugene Case) to help them figure out what the glitch might be. They stumble on a mystery that has a massive scope and potential implication for all of humanity.

LP has two friends: Faith Amana, a social media maven; and Dion, a wine sales rep.

Meanwhile, a programmer named Sylvie Hunter has developed an AI platform called GAIA that is used to generate fake news, obfuscate real stories and manipulate the political and economic strata for the benefit of the Plutonian Council – a group of six extremely wealthy, evil and influential elites – that employ her.

Extinction Event joins a growing collection of books devoted to the category of Climate Fiction, or writing devoted to informing readers about our planet and how we’re abusing it. Extinction Event is part clarion call to all of us and how we treat Earth and all of its creatures; an informative yet amusing romp through global-scale events; and an exploration of the impact that artificial intelligence has and will have on all of us.

Emphasis in the original.

To paraphrase the great sci-fi writer Stephen King: Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your heart, kill your darlings. Translation: stay on point and mercilessly avoid side stories and anecdotes. With much respect for Mr. King, The History of Man Series is precisely that, a great deal about all those little darlings, a style of writing termed “jumping off.”

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“The great sci-fi writer Stephen King.” Engenders so much trust in the author’s judgment, don’t you think?

“This book is a strange but eclectic collection of tales. Through them, it tells a story of hope and togetherness, and looks at the potential of our planet to be better. It defies the readers’ expectations at every turn, and is all the stronger for it. If you’re after a light read that is unique from just about everything else, it’s a thought provoking collection that will entertain, inspire, and linger. It has to be read to be believed.”

Strange BUT eclectic? (And yes, the quotation marks are in the original.)

A sci-fi thriller and the second in a series of novels by Antony Botting. An artefact known as the Pebble is found. When the Trauma begins, no-one is prepared. Terror descends, as life on Earth changes in an instant. The effects are felt worldwide as survivors face the greatest danger. Strange beings walk the surface of the planet as science, religion and criminal enterprise struggle to comprehend the offensive. Humanity seeks sanctuary, unable to come to terms with the Trauma.

So are there any, you know, characters in this novel?

Long-distance relationships present numerous challenges, but they pale in comparison to the horrors of war.

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Whoa. That’s, like, DEEP, man.

Hoe$ is a work that is irrefutably destined to stand alone as the single solitary work of totally unparalleled insight into the core internal dynamics of true whoredom.Hoe$, which is composed of unique true whore elements and select whore specific elements from Pimps: The Raw Truth Grand Inquisitor Level Pimpnological Conclusions, completely shatters age old gross misconceptions that people have about what a true whore is, what a true whore does, who in fact is a true whore and what in fact drives women to engage in true whoredom.

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There’s more, but do you really need it? (h/t RK)