Dan’s first novel, The Black Seas of Infinity, was published by Anarchy Books in 2011. A limited edition chapbook Christmas Is Cancelled came out courtesy of Splatterpunk in 2013. A reissue of his debut novel was released by Permuted Press in April 2015, as well as a collection of his short stories entitled Down Highways In The Dark. In 2019, Crossroads Press released his third book, The End of the World. The chapbook Oh the Horror...The Horror came out in 2021. He’s currently writing short stories, the latest of which, “Fort Bragg”, is available on Amazon. Illustrating books and magazines as well, 16 books now feature his paintings as covers.
In a not-too-distant future, the US has fallen into social and economic ruin. As the fringe elements of society struggle to deal with the new reality, a maelstrom of governmental deceit churns just beneath the surface. Against this backdrop, strange new beings have risen. A former government worker, who in a fit of obsession steals alien technology during a violent raid… A teenager whose reality contorts, making him privy to the cries of the dead as he stumbles in and out of worlds… Things take a dark turn as a conspiracy involving a highly proficient military-industrial complex is attempting to resurrect an ancient horror, and the very outsiders laboring to cope with an altered reality might be the only ones who can do anything about it.
Believable characters, a sufficient backstory to endear you towards the main protagonists, and a well-developed plot that doesn't rely on too many overused tropes in the post-apocalyptic genre.
A number of the characteristics in this post-apocalyptic tale will strike familiar cords, but that would actually be the work of a long chain of often inferior copycat authors who are mimicking previous themes.
“The first satisfying end-of-the-world novel in years . . . an ultimate one . . . massively entertaining.”—Cleveland Plain-Dealer
The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilization.
But for the terrified men and women chance had saved, it was also the dawn of a new struggle for survival—a struggle more dangerous and challenging than any they had ever known.…
A revolutionary, especially for the time period, development of cosmic horror elucidated to the reader in a then rarely used first-person perspective. The utter insignificance of mankind, in relation to the grand time span of the cosmos. As well as the almost perfunctory inclusion of a nubile human race in relation to a much vaster multiverse, definitely set a precedence for all expansions of the borders of consciousness to come. Way ahead of his time, the mythos of HP Lovecraft were vastly underappreciated in their day, but have become the inspiration for a whole slew of successful modern authors.
At the Mountains of Madness is a science fiction-horror novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft.
An expedition to Antarctica goes horribly wrong as a group of explorers stumbles upon some mysterious ancient ruins, with devastating consequences. At the Mountains of Madness ranks among Lovecraft's most terrifying novellas, and is a firm favourite among fans of classic horror.
Very well entailed, to the point where the author could almost be elucidating about nothing but it would still be readable, this story wraps itself around an incredibly novel idea that has been copied all too often in later author's work. Often with deficient results.
The consciousness of age-old men and women is transferred into the body of a much younger and abnormally fit fighting entity that will be used by the earth against alien invaders.
A well-scripted tale that delves both into the evolution of human thought, and the juvenile rigors of military life that are imposed onto a much more advanced intelligentsia, this novel takes the reader on a journey that seems fantastical but somehow incredibly realistic all at the same time.
Perfect for an entry-level sci-fi reader and the ideal addition to a veteran fan’s collection, John Scalzi's Old Man’s War will take audiences on a heart-stopping adventure into the far corners of the universe.
John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.
The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-and aliens willing to fight for them are common. The universe, it turns out, is a hostile place.
An underappreciated genius who helped breathe life into the dying comic book format, this dark tale of public heroes gone wrong delves deep into the psychology of those who pretend to have our best interests at mind.
It's no exaggeration to say that this work completely revamped an aging format for a new generation, winning accolades all along the way. To this day, Alan Moore's storytelling techniques (including scale models, notes and rough drawings, and well-crafted interludes that only later reveal their worth) are still unrivaled in the realm of comic books. A master of the craft that originally convinced me that comics were the preferred medium in which to craft a story.
A hit HBO original series, Watchmen, the groundbreaking series from award-winning author Alan Moore, presents a world where the mere presence of American superheroes changed history--the U.S. won the Vietnam War, Nixon is still president, and the Cold War is in full effect.
Considered the greatest graphic novel in the history of the medium, the Hugo Award-winning story chronicles the fall from grace of a group of superheroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the superhero is dissected as an unknown assassin stalks the erstwhile heroes.
This edition of Watchmen, the groundbreaking series from Alan Moore,…
John Steinbeck has a way with words that draws you in and keeps you present in his uncomfortable reality. A realistic take on a very significant phase in US history, this might be Steinbeck's greatest achievement. His descriptions and dialogue bring scene after scene to life, until the devastating effect of a nationwide depression overwhelms you with its realism. To this day, he is one of my greatest literary influences.
'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.'
Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires and powerlessness, yet out of their struggle Steinbeck created a drama that is both intensely human and majestic in its scale and moral vision.
On the expertise I claim only a deep interest in history, leadership, and social history. After some thirty-six years in the fire and emergency services I can, I think, claim to have seen the best and the worst of human behaviour and condition. History, particularly naval history, has always been one of my interests and the Battle of Jutland is a truly fascinating study in the importance of communication between the leader and every level between him/her and the people performing whatever task is required. In my own career, on a very much smaller scale, this is a lesson every officer learns very quickly.
Captain Heron finds himself embroiled in a conflict that threatens to bring down the world order he is sworn to defend when a secretive Consortium seeks to undermine the World Treaty Organisation and the democracies it represents as he oversees the building and commissioning of a new starship.
When the Consortium employs an assassin from the Pantheon, it becomes personal.
Captain James Heron First Into the Fray: Prequel to Harry Heron Into the Unknown of the Harry Heron Series
The year is 2202, and the recently widowed Captain James Heron is appointed to stand by his next command, the starship NECS Vanguard, while she is being built. He and his team soon discover that they are battling the Consortium, a shadowy corporate group that seeks to steal the specs for the ship’s new super weapon. The Consortium hires the Pantheon, a mysterious espionage agency, to do their dirty work as they lay plans to take down the Fleet and gain supreme power on an intergalactic scale. When Pantheon Agent Bast and her team kidnap Felicity Rowanberg, a Fleet agent…
