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Hope is Restored; Zombie Hope!

Hope is Restored; Zombie Hope!

Have you ever wanted to succeed at something? Did you want it so badly that you almost didn’t believe you could do it? And when you lost the faith, did you fall into a dark mood and want to give up? Did you have trouble coming back from that?

My 3.5-Year Author Self-Evaluation

My 3.5-Year Author Self-Evaluation

So I’ve spent the last three and a half years working full-time as a science fiction writer in my quest to gain a readership, make $500 per month and add something meaningful or noteworthy to the genre. I have failed. But that's just the beginning of the story.

Thanks for the 99c Sale!

Just a quick thank you for your support of the Giant 99c Libertarian Fiction Sale. You purchased more than 120 books from my 10 fellow authors and myself. It was a great success. Thanks also to Tom Woods and Liberty.me for their support.

“Death Shop” is a 2016 Best of the Independent eBook Awards Nominee

“Death Shop” is a 2016 Best of the Independent eBook Awards Nominee

I woke up Tuesday morning to discover that my dystopian science fiction novella Death Shop is nominated for the 2016 eFestival of Words Best of the Independent eBook Awards. Now, I swear, this is not one of those things that I found in my spam folder, "Just $50 and You Too Can be an Award-Winning Author!" Really, I swear.

That Look of Shock Tho

That Look of Shock Tho

It was about this time of year almost exactly one decade ago. My son, Clark, was just a month old, and my golden retriever, Simon, jumped up on the bed next to him. Simon, just three years old at the time, had to see the baby. He wasn't usually allowed on the bed, but with camera in hand, I made an exception. And I got this excellent shot.

Your Reviews are Melting my Titanium-Clad Heart

Your Reviews are Melting my Titanium-Clad Heart

You've presented me with a great gift - new reviews! As an INTJ, emotion figures little in my calculations. I try, but it just doesn't compute. But this outpouring of support is melting even my titanium heart. Thanks! Have a virtual bear hug from me to you.

No Le Entiendo: A Chicago Cabbie’s Poem

No Le Entiendo: A Chicago Cabbie’s Poem

From 1994-1997, I drove a Chicago cab. It was the perfect complement to a University of Chicago education. I freelanced for a large corporation, I saw the seedy underbelly of the Loop and I rubbed elbows with hardworking immigrants from two dozen different countries. One thing I learned quickly is that white cabdrivers were rare. So I wrote a poem about it (back in 1997). Here you go.

What Good Stories Have You Read Lately?

What Good Stories Have You Read Lately?

Right now, I'm reading a paper copy of the Tao Te Ching (and loving it). On my kindle, I've got these books open: Brave New World (kind of dense), Thus Spake Zarathustra (good stuff), The Poetic Edda (I'm working on a novel concept related to Norse mythology), The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction (edited by Isaac Asimov), The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián and The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America.

A 1997 Gift from My Roommates

A 1997 Gift from My Roommates

It was 1997 and I rented a basement room in a ground floor apartment in Chicago’s still-questionable Wicker Park neighborhood (2300 block of West North Ave) with a friendly couple and a high-class drug addict.

I Wrote a Science Fiction Anthology with 7 Libertarians; and Survived

I Wrote a Science Fiction Anthology with 7 Libertarians; and Survived

For a limited time, Liberty.me brings you FREE the first libertarian science fiction anthology in a decade: Defiant, She Advanced: Legends of Future Resistance.

11 Insights I Gained from Writing My First Novel

11 Insights I Gained from Writing My First Novel

I wrote my first novel. It's called Lando Cruz and the Coup Conspiracy. This is a journey that started in Northeast Philadelphia in 1980 when my dad got me an adult library card. Along the way, I learned a few things.

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A Really Short History of Money

A Really Short History of Money

Money is a promise that your sacrifice will pay off in the future, because we build civilization on a set of promises we make to each other.

Trust is Dead

Trust is Dead

Trust is breaking down in our societies — trust not just in big institutions but also in the natural good of the common man.

It’s a distributed future

It’s a distributed future

It’s a distributed future. Beneath all the hype about global warming and other boogie monsters, people are working from the bottom up to to build a new world.

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A Really Short History of Money

A Really Short History of Money

Money is a promise that your sacrifice will pay off in the future, because we build civilization on a set of promises we make to each other.

Trust is Dead

Trust is Dead

Trust is breaking down in our societies — trust not just in big institutions but also in the natural good of the common man.

It’s an All-You-Can-Imagine Future

It’s an All-You-Can-Imagine Future

Limits are a thing of the past. The only ones that matter now are those that you decide to enforce on yourself. We are entering a new era of our civilization where our imaginations reign supreme.

Reality is the Story We Tell Ourselves

Reality is the Story We Tell Ourselves

Some stories are scientifically true. Others tell truths of the heart. Some may actually fly in the face of all we can prove to be true, and yet give us the mindset we need to succeed.

Killer Robots as Common as AK-47s?

Killer Robots as Common as AK-47s?

A missile that decides where to strike. A ship that decides when to shoot. Androids that can do backflips. These autonomous weapons are your new killer robots. What happens when they fall into the hands of angry millionaires, hacky teens and rogue terrorist groups?

Everything is Ludicrous

Everything is Ludicrous

Everything is ludicrous. Just the fact that we exist and can think and communicate is a cosmic prank. A wonderful one to be sure, but a gag nonetheless.

We Can Do Better

We Can Do Better

How easy it was for a Russian company to manipulate Americans through social media during the last US presidential election. People are furious about it. For a $200 spend, they got opposing sides to protest each other in a small Texas town. Their ads reached 146 million people on Facebook. Twitter drooled to sell them a 15% reach of their users.

This Wedding Sponsored By ...

This Wedding Sponsored By ...

The future of work is cooking, cleaning and caring for the infirm. No more steel workers, no more retail clerks, no more autoworkers. It’s just nurse’s assistants, personal aides, wind turbine maintenance guys and software developers.

Build the Future, You Say??

Build the Future, You Say??

While you endure the North Korea nuclear tests, the rip-out-your-throat battles for political hegemony and the desperate unknown of whether Katy Perry wants her ex back or not, it’s good to remember one thing.

It's an Inside-Out World Now

It's an Inside-Out World Now

What if we turned society inside out and made the internet the center, the starting point of everything?

Get Hacked, Man

Get Hacked, Man

When data breaches for every adult is just “a part of life,” and teenagers are materializing new forms of money out of thin air daily, it’s time for the rest of us to get hacking.

In China, Credit Scores Hack You

In China, Credit Scores Hack You

Give us more positive news, goshdarnit, George! Like maybe that there was an alien invasion that had finally ended all our petty squabbling and united us against a common foe…

Robots Rise, Humans Decline

Robots Rise, Humans Decline

We could soon have so much electricity from green power sources and other neat tricks that we’ll begin throwing it away like un-drunk bottled water or expired lettuce.

It’s a distributed future

It’s a distributed future

It’s a distributed future. Beneath all the hype about global warming and other boogie monsters, people are working from the bottom up to to build a new world.

Filter Bubbles, Warring City-States and Utopias

Filter Bubbles, Warring City-States and Utopias

Look forward to a world of city-states where people on the political left and people on the political right live separately. And maybe not just in separate mental spheres, telling themselves different stories about what’s happening in the world, but living in separate cities. Maybe even cities that are at war with each other, like in ancient Greece.

About your Automated Future

About your Automated Future

Pundits increasingly agree that we can expect a future where we simultaneously enjoy material abundance and suffer from a lack of employment opportunities. Robots, including software, will replace workers - even skilled workers such as lawyers and computer programmers.

Is War Part of the Human Condition?

Is War Part of the Human Condition?

Is war inevitable? Is it a part of the human condition? Can we end all war, forever? Should we even try? What would stories be without war, the largest, most tense and free-ranging form of conflict ever?

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85 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books for 99 Cents Each

85 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books for 99 Cents Each

My agorist novel Lando Cruz and the Coup Conspiracy was selected for an exclusive promotion of science fiction and fantasy books this week. Get it for 99 cents today and tomorrow only, Dec 5th and 6th. In other news, my dystopian novella Death Shop was published last week. Get your copy for 99 cents at Amazon.

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Doubleplusunhate

Doubleplusunhate

In Doubleplusunhate, a son goes off his meds, a dad discovers his love for his son and their lives go off the rails in an Orwellian future.

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The BEST Trump Anthology. Buy it Now!

The BEST Trump Anthology. Buy it Now!

How much is a laugh worth to you? A nickel? A dime? But buying them individually is cost-prohibitive, am I right?

It’s an All-You-Can-Imagine Future

It’s an All-You-Can-Imagine Future

Limits are a thing of the past. The only ones that matter now are those that you decide to enforce on yourself. We are entering a new era of our civilization where our imaginations reign supreme.

Seeking Authors for There Will Be Liberty Anthology #3

Seeking Authors for There Will Be Liberty Anthology #3

Intrepid, She Blasted, the third libertarian science fiction anthology in the There Will Be Liberty series is now open for submissions. I would love to work with you to publish your story. Here are the details and requirements.

Write 1,000 Words for a Donald Trump Flash Fiction Anthology

Write 1,000 Words for a Donald Trump Flash Fiction Anthology

In a brazen attempt to pander to current market trends and interests, I've decided to organize and publish a Donald Trump flash fiction anthology on January 20, 2017, just in time for the 45th president of the United States to take office. Without taking sides or engaging in further debate, and with a solemn satirical intention, I invite you to submit stories for the first ever, it's-gonna-be-YUGE Donald Trump flash fiction anthology.

Introducing Monster Maelstrom: 24 Extremely Short Halloween Stories for your Briefest Moments

Looking for some short but high-quality entertainment over coffee or a snack? Grab Monster Maelstrom and fill your fleeting moments with 24 creepy and chuckle-inducing Halloween flash fiction tales. Just 5 minutes per engaging story.

Meet the Bite-Sized Stories Anthology: 33 Indie Flash Fiction Tales for Stolen Moments

Meet the Bite-Sized Stories Anthology: 33 Indie Flash Fiction Tales for Stolen Moments

Got a few moments to kill over coffee or a snack? Grab the new Bite-Sized Stories anthology FREE and fill your stolen moments with 33 indie flash fiction tales. Just 5 minutes per story.

Defying the Odds with Defiant, She Advanced

That science fiction anthology project I blogged about last June? Well, exactly six months later, on December 22, I released it. "Defiant, She Advanced" is ten stories of defiance and daring. Here is the full story.

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The BEST Trump Anthology. Buy it Now!

The BEST Trump Anthology. Buy it Now!

How much is a laugh worth to you? A nickel? A dime? But buying them individually is cost-prohibitive, am I right?

Introducing Monster Maelstrom: 24 Extremely Short Halloween Stories for your Briefest Moments

Looking for some short but high-quality entertainment over coffee or a snack? Grab Monster Maelstrom and fill your fleeting moments with 24 creepy and chuckle-inducing Halloween flash fiction tales. Just 5 minutes per engaging story.

Meet the Bite-Sized Stories Anthology: 33 Indie Flash Fiction Tales for Stolen Moments

Meet the Bite-Sized Stories Anthology: 33 Indie Flash Fiction Tales for Stolen Moments

Got a few moments to kill over coffee or a snack? Grab the new Bite-Sized Stories anthology FREE and fill your stolen moments with 33 indie flash fiction tales. Just 5 minutes per story.

Valiant, He Endured: 17 Sci-Fi Myths of Insolent Grit

We did it again! This time, twelve authors enjoyed a meeting of the keyboards and we’ve got a thrilling 17-story science fiction anthology to show you for it. I love it. It’s exceeding my expectations. Have a look for yourself:

Want to Save the Planet? Just Kill All the People

Want to Save the Planet? Just Kill All the People

Human Free is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by George Donnelly set in 22nd century South Africa after an ecologically-motivated man-made holocaust. Read it free as I write it on WattPad. Check it out now!

Pink Slip Prophet is Cyberpunk about the End of Jobs

Announcing Pink Slip Prophet, a robot cyberpunk novella with a touch of comedy about Ian Blake and his struggle to reclaim his self-respect after losing his job to robots in 2034 Philadelphia. Now available at Amazon and in Kindle Unlimited. Review copies are also on offer.

Defying the Odds with Defiant, She Advanced

That science fiction anthology project I blogged about last June? Well, exactly six months later, on December 22, I released it. "Defiant, She Advanced" is ten stories of defiance and daring. Here is the full story.