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Looks like some of us will have to hunker down in the interest of the greater good for a while. So many of my friends and so many people, in general, are being affected in ways we haven't been forced to have to consider before now. I thought some of you might need a distraction, and [...]
With each passing age, the shift in life’s necessities prompt the specialization of strength in different areas, different muscle groups, different ways. First, it was the legs, then, the back. The hands and mind followed shortly thereafter. The latter, the ever-evolving intellect, it would prove to be sufficient enough to change the world a way [...]
(The Fourth Industrial Revolution) Everything was automatic, so efficient that people were forced by an excess of spare time and the resulting boredom to interact with one another. This should have been the best possible outcome, but it seemed to them a most torturous situation. They were terminally advanced, inexorably detached. They went on about [...]
(and other news) The Diminishing Return paperback is now on sale for the promotional price of $10.95 on Amazon for the rest of January. Just in case you spent too much money over the holidays like I did, but you still want to check out my book. For those of you who prefer to read [...]
When a decision made by leadership affects certain people negatively, the hope is that the decision has been made with the consequences of that decision in mind and that those unfortunate effects have been thoughtfully overruled by the needs of the greater good. Without being allowed any confidence in that hope, in the faith that [...]
Please take a moment to do a write-in vote for Diminishing Return in the Goodreads 2019 Choice Awards Science Fiction category. It would mean so much to me! Thanks for all of your support. If you don't have a Goodreads account, you may need to make one. Click here to go directly to the voting [...]
A friend of mine, Scott Willson, is in the midst of reading my new novel and traveling from Phoenix, AZ to Philadelphia, PA. He is taking the book with him so that he can finish it on the 5 hour flight to PA that Andrea, Ari, and I know all too well. Being the thoughtful [...]
