By KEN KORCZAK The saga of struggling writer Michael E. Knerr is a tale from America’s literary backwaters; a story of heroism and pure grit In the 1950s and early 1960s, there was a niche market for “smutty” science fiction novels. They were issued by small shady publishers who worked out of a crummy … Read more
By KEN KORCZAK 16-year U.S. Navy veteran Matthew Roberts confronts transhuman intelligence and embarks on a remarkable quest for meaning The author tells us that he wrote this book “out of love for mankind.” What puts weight behind this lofty statement is that MATTHEW ROBERTS felt it necessary to jettison his 16-year career in the U.S. Navy — … Read more
By KEN KORCZAK It takes a genius to catch a genius. The British Crown tapped the smartest man in the world to catch a criminal mastermind Hey, remember that ridiculous movie a few years ago that rebranded President Abraham Lincoln as a vampire slayer? Or how about the Star Trek feature film wherein the plot … Read more
By KEN KORCZAK Part 1: There is No Spoon … Um, I Mean Music Part 2: Mescalito Riding His White Horse. Author Mike Fiorito’s new book inspired by the adventures of musician Peter Rowan Four decades ago, when I was a general assignment reporter at a Minnesota daily newspaper, a stout, 40-something bald guy with … Read more
By KEN KORCZAK Former counterculture vagabond, science fiction writer and honorary ‘Hermetic Magician’ Wayne Saalman wows with extraordinary true stories & essays on the transcendent destiny of humanity Years ago, when I was a teenager reading Fyodor Dostoevsky’s masterpiece, The Brothers Karamazov, a subtitle in one of the chapters jumped out at me and lodged … Read more
