The first review of The Savage Deeps has appeared at Readers’ Favorite. Waiting for the first professional opinion is always a nail-biting experience. Thankfully, it’s a glowing five-star review that gives away no spoilers. Check it out here:
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New Review of The War Beneath
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New Review Alert:
A new review has appeared over at online review site THE FUTURE FIRE. It’s a generally positive review, quite comprehensive, discussing everything from the plot to character development to the story’s political ramifications to the diagrams I included in the book.
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TSJ Reviews Father Sweet by J.J. Martin
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TSJ Reviews FATHER SWEET by J.J. Martin
FATHER SWEET is the debut novel by Canadian writer J.J. Martin. It centers around a boy’s life in a small hamlet near Ottawa in Northern Ontario and his intersecting path with not only the local predatory priest, but also his father’s mysterious occupation and reasons behind the cold-hearted manner in which he raises his children. The two stories converge near the book’s conclusion, and the novel is a riveting tale of abuse, strength, revenge, and redemption.
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TSJ on The Hot Zone
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I read this book shortly after its release in 1994. It is a page turner. It brought public attention to the threat of deforestation, and it did so in graphic, horrific detail.
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TSJ Talks Inspirations for The War Beneath
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TSJ Talks Inspirations for The War Beneath
When I was a teenager I read a lot of 1950s Science Fiction. It was the tail end of the “Golden Age of Science Fiction.” Asimov, Pohl, Heinlein, del Rey and more. I fell in love with the genre because of those books. They sparked my imagination and took me to fascinating locations in futuristic settings. The stakes were always huge. It’s those books that really taught me how important YA Science Fiction is. Readers get hooked on the genre early; it’s what happened to me.
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TSJ’s “My Favorite Things Related to the Oceans”
Over at Speculative Chic they’ve posted an article I wrote about the Science Fiction books and movies that I love most featuring the oceans. They helped inspire me to write THE WAR BENEATH. Some of them are novels from the tail end of the Golden Age of Science Fiction.
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TSJ’s List of the Best Science Fiction Movies of the 1970’s
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The Best Science Fiction Movies of the 1970’s
I should clarify that a film’s presence on this blog post is entirely subjective based on my experiences growing up. These were my creative formative years, during which I was discovering genre books, television shows, and movies. I was born in 1970, so really the 80’s were my true introduction to Science Fiction Horror, Thriller and Adventure — books by Asimov and Crichton and films by Cameron, Spielberg, Carpenter, and Verhoeven — but the 1970’s played a huge role in my love for the genre. Detroit Channel 7 broadcast most of the films I saw. Many had poor effects, but the stories were so powerful and the actors so committed that the movies rose above the rest of the stories that were available at the time. The themes were relevant, the plots compelling and interesting, all the base human emotions like revenge and lust and greed and hate were on full display, they spoke of issues that people dealt with every day, and they featured powerful scores and incredible directing. They were gripping.
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Pre-Order THE WAR BENEATH!
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THE WAR BENEATH by TSJ is Available for Pre-Order at Amazon
First the bulkheads sweat, then there’s a trickle of water, and then in an instant you’re gone. The only thing left is a bloody pulp in the dark water and crushed bone fragments on the seafloor …
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TSJ Reviews the Novel READY PLAYER ONE by Ernie Cline
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Here’s a #short #book #review for you this morning:
Almost two years ago now I first picked up READY PLAYER ONE by @erniecline. I couldn’t put it down. Took me three days to finish. Reality intervened, work and life interrupted a few times, but when I wasn’t reading I was doing everything I could to get back to that book. It’s rare that a novel does this to me, but it’s happened before. The previous one that I recall having the same effect was probably THE FOREVER WAR by Joe Haldeman.