Tag Archives: Peter J. Wacks

Bookshelf: Second Paradigm

Second Paradigm‘s title refers to a new paradigm for thinking about time, time travel, and paradox, and its story is an exploration of that paradigm. The challenge in trying to tell you about a book as intricately plotted as this … Continue reading

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Bookshelf: The Dandy Boys Mysteries

The Dandy Boys Mysteries are the cast of Downton Abbey trying to prove that Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a figment of Mina Harker’s imagination. This gothic mystery tale styles itself a publication of excerpts out of the journals of Friedrich … Continue reading

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Magic City!

Allegedly, Miami is called “Magic City” because the city sprouted up overnight due to a flood of immigrants. Since Juan Ponce de León rolled through here in the sixteenth century looking for the Fountain of Youth, though, I think the … Continue reading

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Bookshelf: Bloodletting

The Affinities Cycle is an epic fantasy saga in a Farlandesque or Sandersonian vein… 5/5 stars, and bring on the sequels! As in Sanderson’s and Farland’s most famous books, magic here is schematic, tied to an ordering of the world, its … Continue reading

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Pensacon Report Out

Last weekend I went to Pensacon, in Pensacola, Florida.  This was exciting for me, because it was my first outing as a Wordfire Press author, with the WFP team and at the WFP table. The team was Kevin J. Anderson, … Continue reading

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Wordfire Press

So, I’ve been working an exciting development in (relative) silence for a few months, and I think I can now share it. I’m going to stop being a self-published novelist. Nothing wrong with self-publication.  It’s been good for me, not in … Continue reading

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