Show more

With "The Armageddon Protocol," author Dan Moren is presenting the final book in "The Galactic Cold War" series. Though as he explains in this exclusive interview about this sci-fi space opera spy novel, "final" might not be the right word...
paulsemel.com/exclusive-interv
📖🚀🕵️
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Started reading Angela Sylvaine's "The Dead Spot: Stories Of Lost Girls." 🐝
amzn.to/3XAHK35
📖🪦🐝👧
Man, that first story was Fucked. Up.
🐝 🐝

Started reading Angela Sylvaine's "The Dead Spot: Stories Of Lost Girls." 🐝
amzn.to/3XAHK35
📖🪦🐝👧
Man, that first story was Fucked. Up.
🐝 🐝

Like other writers assembling a collection of their short stories, Kirti Bhadresa did so around a theme for her first short story collection, "An Astonishment Of Stars." Though as she explains in this exclusive interview, the theme is...uh...kitchens.
paulsemel.com/exclusive-interv
📖⭐️🌟💫
. . . . . . . . . . . . .

Started reading T.H. White's "The Once And Future King."
amzn.to/3WK3aua
📖⚔️
"We're...Knights of the Round Table..."

Finished reading Isaac Asimov's "I, Robot."
amzn.to/4b6jx9B
📖🤖
While individual were good, I found this collectively worked better when I approached it as a collection with a framing device as opposed to a novel comprised of short stories.

Started reading Rae Armantrout's "Next Life: Poems" tonight.
amzn.to/3UGNuYR
📖🖊️
Unsurprisingly, this starts off strong.

Read Aliette de Bodard's "Navigational Entanglements" tonight.
amzn.to/3ZaTUC2
📖🚀⭕️🐙
A very unique and interesting story, though some aspects did remind me, in a good way, of "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within."

Finished reading Kim Addonizio's "Exit Opera: Poems."
amzn.to/3XBBN5P
📖😮🎶
Good overall, but especially so when she wrote about something you wouldn't think someone would write a poem about.

While many fantasy novels are inspired and influenced by, well, other fantasy novels, in my exclusive interview with author Lynn Buchanan, she says her fairy taleu-esque adventure fantasy novel "The Dollmakers," was inspired by a painting and influenced by the films of an iconic anime studio.
paulsemel.com/exclusive-interv
📖🎎
. . . . . . . . . . .

Written as a prequel, L.R. Gaunt's fantasy adventure novel "9th Dawn: The Book Of Nameless" shows what happened 100 years before "9th Wave: Remake," the updated version of the old school video game "9th Wave." To learn more, check out this exclusive interview with Gaunt.
paulsemel.com/exclusive-interv
📖⚔️🎮
. . . . . . . . . . . . .

Read "The Maids" part of Jean Genet's "'The Maids' and 'Deathwatch': Two Plays" tonight.
amzn.to/4fNWrbe
📖🎭
Genet at his most biting ... and he had quite the bite.

Started reading Isaac Asimov's "I, Robot."
amzn.to/4b6jx9B
📖🤖
Yet another classic I'm just now getting to in my old age.

Finished reading Sarah Crossan's "Hey, Zoey."
amzn.to/4exybbV
📖🤖👉👌
This was a lot moodier, and not nearly as filthy or as -y as I was expecting or hoping, but it was still interesting in a sad kind of way.

It's both a great and terrible time to be an immigrant. But it is in such times that we often get the best art. In my new interview with cartoonist Teresa Wong, "a child of Chinese-Canadian immigrants," she talks about her new graphic memoir "All Our Ordinary Stories."
paulsemel.com/exclusive-interv
📖🖊️🖌️
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Show more

Paul Semel

CounterSocial is the first Social Network Platform to take a zero-tolerance stance to hostile nations, bot accounts and trolls who are weaponizing OUR social media platforms and freedoms to engage in influence operations against us. And we're here to counter it.