Books

Here’s the new kid on the block. Danger Island is my most recent novella. I published it a couple of weeks ago (8/18/19). It’s available on kindle and in paperback.

I recently started reading all the Hugo Award winning novels. The first book to win the Hugo way back in 1953 was “The Demolished Man” by Alfred Bester. I love Bester’s “The Stars My Destination” and have read many of his short stories but somehow had never gotten around to reading “Demolished Man.” Bester is one of a kind. If you haven’t read his stuff – go do so now. I’m more partial to “The Stars My Destination” but only because I’ve read it a couple of times now and it was my first exposure to Bester’s work.

Danger Island is, in part, inspired by Bester’s work and is the first of a planned cluster of novellas that I will set in the world outlined in it. I don’t want to give too many of the details away here so I’ll just say it’s a near future setting with mind-readers and killbots. Also, it’s a bit of a love letter to watching television. I could write something fancy here and say the story is about the permeating influence of television and how the medium has effected all aspects of our lives but I won’t. No, really. I won’t.