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The Proof of the Pudding?

Earth as Dynamic Geometry, A Case Study – Contemplations on Thought I won’t go into a great deal of detail here; the select ones that are the most general are in this volume. BTW, while the previous three volumes allowed a blank sidebar for notes by the reader, this volume omits that. The main thrust of this volume has to do with the transformability of certain geometric shapes isolated within…

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Where the Rubber Meets the Road

The Geometry of Universal Mind – Volume Three Volume Two shared with potential readers something of the likeness of several “modern” versions of science with this particular arrangement of geometry. And so in Volume Three, as this post’s title suggests, we arrive, finally, at a more “together” depiction of this geometric scheme. By the way, that this geometric structuring can be seen, in…

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Fragmented Reality, Science and Geometry

The Geometry of Universal Geometry – Volume Two Anytime you have a new wrinkle on anything, scientific or otherwise, it helps make your case if you can successfully fold it into established phenomena. That’s what Volume Two is all about. Is there something in this work that connects well with relativity? Chaos Theory? Dimensionality? Quantum Theory? Holography? It’s all here – – at least in…

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A Geometric History

The Geometry of Universal Mind, Volume One In order to blaze into the future, you have to begin by evaluating where you’ve been. And so this initial volume begins by taking a look at where this version of geometry has been. This version of geometry, you ask? Where we’re going is a look at what might be a geometry that fills all space in Universe, and which underlies all contemporary sciences…

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Things Geometry and Otherwise

So I’ve recapped my “traditional” fiction publications at this point. I think I might be in an evolutionary process of changing my subject matter, the main clue to that appearing in my next four (or five) posts, all published earlier here. As with my fiction posts, these will be retrospectives, a bit on my interest in them, and something of a segue from one to those following. Many thanks for…

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The Bias of Book Competitions

The Perfection of Valor For the writers out there: When considering prizes and awards in book competitions, realize that judges are almost always biased in one way or another. Case in point: I had submitted “LAST EAGLE” to the Military Writers Association of America’s annual book award competition. I was pleased that the book took the Bronze Prize (3rd place) in historical fiction that year.…

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No Need to Shoot the Messenger

The Future Human, New Ways of Living and Being on Earth, by Lee Harris and Regina Meredith It’s not even newsworthy any more that we’re living in changing times. And surely we all feel the change rate accelerating. We’re more comfortable with the status quo than with the awkward, uncomfortable unknown of what lies ahead when change is so much in our face. Which Is what led me to seek out this…

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The Workings of Evil on the Good

The Third Reich’s Last Eagle There’s a certain evil that can be woven into a nation by a single person or a relatively small cadre of people permitted to do evil work. All it takes is to inundate a nation’s people with the idea that the work of such a small group is a good work, and they, for the most part, will follow suit. Hans Ulrich Rudel, the subject of this book, was one such person.…

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Dystopia Forever?

We Are Strong, But We Are Fragile – A Novel Prior to my embarking on this one, I didn’t really know what dystopian literature was: some new attitude toward writing? A noir (after the cinema) styling? A new literary genre? Oh, cool, I thought to myself after I’d dug into it, I can do that! So I invented a futuristic story in my home city of Asheville, North Carolina, set some hundred or so years…

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A Tragic Memoir

In This Love Together – A Memoir Most contemporary memoirs that I’ve read over the past two decades have been those in which the author has suffered some social disadvantage that possibly couldn’t be helped or avoided. Few are, as memoirs were originally meant to be, stories of a life well lived, or often challenges overcome instead of victimization. But what of disease? The sometimes…

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A Too-Limited Society

The Final Case, by David Guterson Sometimes, a novelist will begin a manuscript with a kernel of an idea, not knowing where it will take itself. This one by Guterson seems the case. It begins with the protagonist, in a rambling manner, taking his semi-retired lawyer father to his office to begin another ho-hum day. The father accepts a case concerning the death of a young Ethiopian girl,…

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The Answers Are In Front of You

The Eden Enigma, by Paul Wallis I’ve always had a thing for history. No, not that of our various wars, which we tend to blow up into something almost holy. I’m talking about the great historic questions: How did the Ainu, a white race of people in northern Japan, get there? What’s still under cover in the Amazon basin, beneath the Saharan sands? How is it that linguists can trace most western…

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And Then There Were Short Stories

Back in the day, while waiting for those snail-mail queries and manuscript submissions to work their magic, I had been writing short stories. At least, I thought, if the novels don’t work out, I can follow in the footsteps of my then-literary counselor, Doris Betts. She made me aware that the skill set and temperament for a novelist is a bit different from that of a short fiction writer. I’m one…

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Singularity Addendum

Singularity was a long post, and I need to add why it is what it is: In physics, a singularity connotes “a point at which a function takes an infinite value.” To me, the “infinite value” is that it demonstrates the conditions under which, if I continued down the path of fiction writing (non-fiction is a different literary animal and leads in far different directions, with different outcomes,…

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The Singularity

After my ill-fated first mystery, and following the hopeful second, I sat back, discouraged. Was I much of a writer at all? Was this my alt-career? I had to find out. So I devised a scheme: I would write a novella (no sense writing a 500-page tome to find this out, right?) I devised a short book of some 150 or so pages broken into four sections. Each section would be written in a different point…

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Mysterious Mysteries

When I first began to write novels, I made the calculated decision to write popular stuff. And what could be more popular in print or on TV (or streaming, which wasn’t a thing then) than mysteries. I wrote my first one, A Reason to Tremble, over a year, rising at 4:30 am before work to get a page or two of text done. Set in a middle Georgia town (I was living in Georgia then), a little girl was…

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This Writer's Redux

With all the extracurricular things I’ve had going on for the past 3 years, I haven’t paid enough attention to my book pages on Facebook. Consequently the “midnight skulkers” have been posting their own agendas on those pages. So I’ve been receiving notices from mysterious FB personages that – one by one – my pages are to be deleted because of rather vague rule-violating (is this influenced by…