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Andrea Vernon and the Corporation for Ultrahuman protection

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By: Alexander C. Kane

This one I got almost by accident but what a gem it turned out to be.

This is both funny and imaginative.

Who would have thought that anybody could come up with a good spin on superheroes that isn’t already done to death?

This is a truly remarkable debut book.

At some point in the future or perhaps in an alternate reality, superheroes offer their protection via various corporations.  If a supervillain, space alien, or other problem appears then the superhero corporation with a contract for that area will respond.

The story comes with great superheroes and supervillains.
A lot of funny interaction, absurd situations and a tad of romance.

The narration is great. I AM THE BIG AXE!

Fall; or, Dodge in Hell

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By Neal Stephenson

This book was a slough to get through.
The hardest I have had with a book in a long time.

The book starts with a bit of near future science fiction, and that is my favorite part.

I do like the idea to explore how do humans who have had their brains digitally scanned “boot up” there Is a lot of potential with that idea. That they all want to live in the middle ages does not make any sense.
It then describes a person playing what seems to be a very boring game of Civilization, detailed in excruciating details. This takes up a looong part of the book.
This eventually gives way to a quest, which sounds like a mediocre game of Dungeons and Dragons which again is boring and takes forever.
I am proud of myself to have finished this book.
I kept hoping that there would be something great coming around the corner but there wasn’t.
I should say I am usually a fan of Neal Stephenson, and he has written some of my favorite books so I came to this with high expectations. Amazon in part describes it as “entertaining science fiction thriller”. That is just false marketing. Every part of that is wrong.

Why?

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Why do I run this website?

Over time I have found that contributing to social media companies, was much like working for them and not getting paid.

I disliked the way I had no control over my own content, it could get deleted, forgotten, altered and promoted.

My writing also got spread out on several different properties.

I have now tried to disengage as much as possible with social media and accept whatever possible loss of influence that may bring.

I like owning my own site, it costs a bit of money with the configuration I went with, I know it can be done a lot cheaper and over time I might adjust things.

The biggest problem with running your own site is how do you drive traffic to your content. I have chosen to not worry about that. I dont expect to make any money off of this. I am not going to spend much time promoting it.

If I become the only reader I am ok with that because a lot of what gets posted here is to help me remember things.

Hopefully some other peolpe might find an article or two interesting enough.