Read the introductory chapter from Perihelion: The Ghost of Novels Past It was a particularly sultry night in mid-July of 2020, almost tropical with humidity although this was southeastern Wisconsin. I was tossing and turning, throwing off sheets damp with sweat, mostly tormented with worries: there was a pandemic racing through the world that nobody seemed able (and some unwilling) to stop. But there was more that was keeping me awake. The fear of the virus had kept us from visiting our favorite restaurants, carry-out was not quite up to our standards, and I was getting bored with my usual repertoire of chile, pulled pork, and the obligatory bratwursts. I had decided to do something atypical, perhaps exotic. Asian fare, East Indian cuisine, Ethiopian dishes, all required ingredients I was unlikely to find at our Piggly Wiggly store, however. I settled on Welsh Rarebit for no reason other than that I had been perusing some books from my library that reprinted old comic str...
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Time Travelers Abroad https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08HXDW898 Time travelers abroad in a universe of improbability. A sequel to The Death of Time . Follow John Dillinger, Mary Shelley, Templar Grand Master Jacques de Moray, General Wei Shan, and others as they journey through the Catacombs of Paris, a Jurassic jungle, and a planet at the edge of eternity. These, and the alchemist, the scientist, the girl from a planet of deadly plague, the alchemist's apprentice, an evil scientist from the far future, and Scheherazade the cat with one thousand and one lives are swept up by a whirlwind of temporal chaos with only Mother Time to look after them. Historical science fiction told not as fantasy, but as the preposterous reality of multiple universe theory.
Newest book: The Cabinet of Curiosities of Barnaby Cannon and Other Stories by Byron Grush The Cabinet of Curiosities of Barnaby Cannon and Other Stories A Cabinets of Curiosities of short stories. The disparate juxtaposition of Frito pies and the burning of Old Man Gloom, the fatal flight of the Wingfoot, Le Petit Théâtre Du Vieux Carré, the Salles des Glaces, equestrians Rose Dockrell and George Holland, the CSS Alabama vs. the USS Kearsage, Al Capone and the 226 Club, The Yellow Kid, and Doc W’s antique dentist’s drill. With as little similarity as a narwhale’s tusk has to an astrolabes Islamique, the commonality here is the quasi-genre of Historical Fiction. Love and tragedy, time travel and nostalgia, and some nice big explosions
Read a sample chapter from The Death of Time by Byron Grush In this chapter, the time travelers are stranded in different eras. We open with a not too distant future in which a "would be dictator" who may be familiar to readers, gets his come-up-ings. 24 Strange Fruit Hanging from the Cherry Trees Washington D.C., Spring, 2024 Killing them once had not been sufficient to quench the anger and undo the horrors of the regime. Bodies, still bleeding from bullet holes, were dragged along the walkway next to the National Mall Tidal Basin. Water flooding the banks of the basin covered much of the walk so the angry crowd tugged the bodies up across the grass and laid them under the cherry trees where kicks were applied at random to the swelling cadavers. Someone emptied a handgun into the very dead victims. Someone else brought a coil of rope, and soon there swung by the feet from the stoutest of the tree limbs, the former would-be dictator, his daughter, one ...
A new book! The Death of Time Sixteenth Century alchemy meets Twentieth Century science and a journey through space and time begins. Will it end with the Death of Time? What would you do if you could go back in time? What would you change? Who would you kill? What did the builders of the Sphinx know? What will the future of humanity be like? Only Time will tell. Alchemist Loran Mac Conmara and his apprentice, a youth named Riordan Éamon Ó Ciardha, Oak Ridge scientist Dr. Madison James McGinley, and three young people from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, find themselves joining forces in an improbable journey through time to engage in an urgent battle between scientists of the far future with the very existence of Time as a consequence.