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If
you like fantasy, dark fantasy, paranormal fiction or science fiction, you're
in the right place.
Here you'll find a free short story, a serial, my blog, and excerpts and links to suspenseful paranormal fiction, dark fantasy, fantasy and science fiction e-books.
January, 2012. Another year is upon us. This is the year that the world is supposed
to end in December according to the Mayan Calendar folks. So you don't have
much time to read my books. This month I blog
about the Apocalypse (see below). Coming soon to Page Turner Editions are Book Six of my Raven
Lenore series, The Case of the Missing Android, and The Further Adventures of Frankenstein's Monster.
In The Case of the Missing Android Scientist, an android wants
a mate, an android scientist is missing, a woman mysteriously appears naked on
a downtown street, and a monastery is closed. What is the connection among
them? This is the mystery that Raven must unravel while investigating the
scientist's disappearance. It is a case that must be solved to avoid an
apocalyptic war that could destroy mankind. Many pitfalls and dangers are
Raven's fate as she navigates a labyrinthine catacomb, travels to the future
and endangers her personal happiness with a new love. If you are Raven Lenore fan, look for
its appearance at Page Turner Editions
and other book sellers.
The Further Adventures of the Frankenstein
Monster is about
what happened to the Frankenstein monster after the final scene in Shelly's
book, where the monster is seen floating away on a mountain of ice.
You'll find
links to several e-books on this web site, for example, the sequel to The Traveling Vampire and the Farmer's
Daughter, The
Traveling Vampire and Twilight in the Catacombs is available at Page Turner Editions E-Books. My
latest novella The Sleeper, an adult retelling of the Sleeping Beauty legend with a twist ending,
is also available at Page Turner
Editions .
At the top
of this page you will see a table of links. They are links to web pages that
contain my biography, a free short story, a serial that features a new episode
each month, a gallery of interesting art and photos, my favorite web sites and
links to pages that contain the cover, summary and an excerpt of each of my
novels. The E-books featured may be purchased at Page Turner Editions and other online
booksellers such as Amazon, Fictionwise, Barnes and Noble, Sony E-Books and many others.
If you
prefer a printed book to an e-book, Dinner With Dracula is available as a paperback at Amazon and
Barnes and Noble. Dinner With Dracula is the hilarious
adventures of Charles Winterbottom, an
This month's
short story is Pop Art. When An art reviewer fears the artist whose work he panned.
The fifteenth
episode of Morgaine's Familiar is entitled Return from

Armageddon in Science Fiction
One of the most reoccurring themes in
science fiction is the end of the world, or at least the end of civilization.
It is not surprising since there are many ways that this could actually come
about. Also, prophets have been predicting catastrophic disasters from the time
men learned to speak to each other. Two popular ones lately are global warming
and an asteroid strike. So we have a choice of drowning when the ice caps melt
or being smashed to atoms by a big rock.
For a while, when a few people caught bird
flu in
Anyway, science fiction authors love to
write about Armageddon of one sort or other. Here are some of my personal
favorites. There are two by John Brunner. The first is Stand on Zanzibar
where civilization is brought to an end because of overpopulation.
Overpopulation as threat seems to be no longer in vogue. I guess because there
are so many ways of dealing with overpopulation. For example, nuke the excess
or give everybody a gun and give them leave to hunt and kill everybody they
hate.
The second book by Brunner is The Sheep
Look Up which is about pollution. We are pretty certain that is the most
likely end that we face.
There are many atomic war novels. These
were especially popular during the cold war years. The funniest was the movie Doctor
Strangelove, where a deranged general starts world war three because of his
erectile dysfunction. I also like the novel On the Beach by Nevil Schute, which was also made
into a good movie. In this novel, the last people on earth after an atomic war
are living in
One of the more interesting ways that the
human race comes to an end is a little known book called The Black Corridor
by Michael Moorcock. In this short novel, bigotry runs wild so that everyone
kills everyone else that is different from himself or
herself. It's a real chiller. I got goose bumps reading it.
Invasions by aliens is another possibility that could end the
human race. My favorite is Footfall by Larry Niven
and Jerry Pournelle, where the invaders look like
elephants.
An old movie that's fun is When Worlds
Collide where a group of scientists and a chosen few race to build a
spaceship to escape from a collusion between earth and another planet. The one
thing I never quite understood was where the planet they were headed for was
located
I liked the TV miniseries The Stand
by Stephen King as the survivors of a pandemic meet up at the cabin of an old
woman and go fight the devil in
Of course there are many more great
science fiction novels and stories about the Apocalypse, but those were some of
my personal favorites, because they each have a slightly odd slant to the end
of the world.
I have written one novel about the
Apocalypse myself. It is called Morgaine
and Armageddon and has a lot of stuff in it based loosely on The Book of
Revelations of the Christian Bible. If you are interested, it is in eBook format and can be obtained from Renaissance Ebooks, www.pageturneredition.com or Fictionwise
Ebooks, www.fictionwise.com.
If anyone has any comments about my blog or my novels or just to say hello, my E-mail address
is jvadalma at hvc.rr.com.
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