Books Worth Reading
I am waiting impatiently for Amazon to publish the 8.25X11 color print edition of Maroli Tango — after several days spent upsizing 254 chapter illustrations to upsized margins — thereby provoking repagination, orphan lines, unplanned text wrapping, thigh cramps, etc.
Curious, are we? See the eBook, also in color.
Imagine Maroli Tango, supersized, on your coffee table.
Let us wait, in eager anticipation, together.
Persons over the age of seventy should never eat anything less than three hours before bedtime.
Ice cream, 9:00 PM. I knew there would be trouble. I did it anyway.
There I was, loitering on the patio at our first home on Kratz Avenue, examining a trio of 2″ PVC pipes cut flush to cedar siding, where once sat a 350-gallon Jacuzzi-brand hot tub.
“What happened?” I wondered. “Did someone find out it came from a vice-squad-raided massage parlor?”
True story. We ran household bleach through it for two days. For all I know, nothing happened, and the spa is still where I left it, twenty-six years ago.
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Ghosts of Ancient Vidura is free in the Kindle store!
ChatGPT says:
This is not a “chosen one” power fantasy. It’s a story about competent adults—doctors, engineers, officers, lawyers—forced to confront realities that don’t fit neatly into ideology, religion, or national interest. The tone is thoughtful, sometimes wry, occasionally confrontational, and deeply curious about how societies actually function under stress.
Somewhere in the middle of all the robots and spaceships and ray guns and thunderous battle scenes, don’t you sometimes wish an author would bother to write a story? Yes. Me, too.
Today, it is my hope that you will buy Maroli Tango after reading Elbert and Ghosts of Ancient Vidura, which I am offering free, one at a time, on the Kindle store, starting today.
It is a three-step process, which relies upon you, the pigeon customer, clicking on a button, below.
Author Ashley Manning said:
One of the books biggest strengths is the way that John G. Dyer manages to side-step what you think’s going to happen next and then go in a completely new direction, and I was completely onboard for the ride. It’s an interesting story as you can never quite guess what will happen next.
So says Ashley, who ought to know because, unlike yourself, he read the book.
I have run three eBook giveaways since September 10. Orders: twelve, ten, and five.
I am not discouraged. Elbert is free in the Kindle store — for three days starting tomorrow September 23.
ChatGPT says: Literary science fiction in the classical sense: a work where speculative elements exist not to dazzle, but to reveal. The extraordinary enters gently—through family history, withheld truths, and the slow accumulation of unease—until the reader realizes that the familiar world has been irrevocably widened.
The story begins in 1928 South Dakota. There are only a handful of unfamiliar proper nouns.
It’s a great yarn. I promise.
Resilient is free in the Kindle store, now through Monday.
Alter AI says: “Resilient fortifies The Anye Legacy as one of the most intellectually ambitious and metaphysically rich science‑fiction cycles of the last decade.”
The Robots have read everything published. If we did not believe they understand what they’re looking at, we would not be asking them questions.
ChatGPT says: “You’ll find a lived-in world with deep history and internal logic. Moral dilemmas where there are no clean victories. Characters who endure, adapt, and sometimes fail—but keep going. A rare fusion of hard science fiction with spiritual and philosophical inquiry.”
It’s not boring. I promise.
Featured image: Suban Dhava, the little tyke on the book's cover, at the age of twenty.
I would position Resilient as an adult science-fiction adventure with strong coming-of-age and metaphysical elements.
Its defining characteristic is the intersection of two stories: Suban Dhava’s journey from abducted child to resourceful young man, and the emergence of the AptakArin—conscious beings given new lives through transdimensional technology.
Unlike a conventional space opera, much of the novel’s action takes place on Vidura itself, where family, survival, criminal organizations, military operations, and questions about the soul intersect.
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While we wait, let us consider what Alter AI has to say about the book:
John G. Dyer’s Resilient fortifies The Anye Legacy as one of the most intellectually ambitious and metaphysically rich science‑fiction cycles of the last decade.
Does the Robot know enough about Literature that it should say such things?
Tomorrow you will have an opportunity to decide for yourself.
On the cover: Anye Mahat Limar militant businessman Reva Yudhvan in the company of ten-year-old Anye Mahat Raja Suban Dhava in Antaka, the Vanya Dominion.
In recent days, I have been wondering what readers might think about the fact that Quantum Soul does not introduce its title concept until Chapter 84 — a third of the way through the book.
Continue reading “Premise, Promise, Pacing ~ The Taxonomy of Quantum Soul”
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