La carta de Manchuria – Segunda parte / The Manchurian Letter – Part Two BILINGUAL: "Though the soldier’s face remained mostly expressionless, his eyes couldn’t hide his surprise." / "Aunque el rostro del soldado casi permaneció inmóvil, sus ojos no pudieron ocultar sorpresa."
Tales of Tom Feller: Below Deep "Flames flickered to life in the dusty timbres of the broken buildings as the monstrosity struggled..."
Golden Paladin (October 2024) "Her face was a taut mask of pure rage that stopped the Golden Paladin in his tracks."
La carta de Manchuria – Primera parte / The Manchurian letter – Part one BILINGUAL: "...the Soviet army invaded the Manchuria region in northern China..."
La muñeca triste / The sad doll BILINGUAL: "This was a doll that was forgotten by mistake in a corner."
The Fractured Balance comes to Booktopia! "We’re putting the final touches on our second novel, titled The Fractured Balance!"
Golden Paladin "His chance to analyze was cut short as the final alarm rang out and the world exploded into activity..."
Golden Paladin "By the time morning came, rumors had thoroughly spread throughout the camp about the flash of light that had pierced the night."
Golden Paladin: Land of Chaos "Hesa only responded, at first, with the long-suffering sigh of every person who had ever uttered some variation of the infamous phrase: ‘Let’s see what happens.’"
Do androids dream of Philip K. Dick?? "The definition of reality... seems to be one of the questions that flows through PKD’s writing."
Golden Paladin Land of Chaos "Setting up camp took well into the night, and the mood was tense and somber."
Golden Paladin: Land of Chaos "Hesa and the Golden Paladin had already had an emergency meeting inside the wagon and distributed orders to their army. This was an obvious ambush."
Golden Paladin Land of Chaos-January 2024 “It was the hectic but organized chaos of people who had put their all into being as prepared as one could ever be for war.”
Golden Paladin: December 2023 “It was this last priority that found Hesa in one of the underground larders scowling alternately between a stack of crates and a parchment in her hand.”
Pulp fiction “Most people today are unfamiliar with pulps, although they were the early promoters of American popular fiction.”
Margaret Brundage: 'Queen of the Pulps' “Most people are probably unfamiliar with Margaret Brundage who was ‘Queen of the Pulps’ and the first woman science fiction, fantasy, and horror illustrator, starting way back in the 1930s.”
Golden Paladin: Land of Chaos #40 (Nov 2023) “With Hesa’s discovery that the towers overlapped the leylines, she and the other magi could — finally — begin the laborious process of untangling the connections between them.”
Now, A Stranger With the Same Blood “I wonder if your hands are still mourning doves waiting to be freed… I wonder when mine started expecting to be caged.”
Golden Paladin: Land of Chaos #39 “The silence in the war room was the thick tenor of many people anxiously and impatiently waiting.”
Golden Paladin (Sept 2023) “Believe in yourself, the way I believe in you. The way the Golden Paladin believes in you. And it will be alright. I promise”
Arkham… home of the Cthulhu Mythos and other weird fiction “It [Arkham House] is an example of a small publishing company that had a mission to preserve a genre of literature and succeeded.”
Golden Paladin (Aug 2023) “She wheeled to look at the Golden Paladin, sure her eyes were as large as a hill giant’s but unable to wrangle her expression into anything more professional.”
