Renaissance Writer: Gordon A. Long

REVIEW

“Lost in the Vast” by Chelsea Thornton & Travis Brown

by renaissanceadmin • 2021-10-09 • 0 Comments

This series is a modern take on Indiana Jones, an Alternate Reality about three twenty-somethings who act more like teenagers. Of course, that’s the target readership, so no one will complain. The writing style pops with colour and detail, appropriate to the jungles and ruins in which the action takes place, although it goes a…

“Wolfe Trap” by Matt Cost

by renaissanceadmin • 2021-10-03 • 1 Comment

I have reviewed Mr. Cost’s work earlier this year, and find myself repeating those comments and applying them to this novel. However, for those of you who missed “Mainely Money,” here goes. Generally, this author writes a great action novel but tends to fall in love with his research, and expects us to do the…

“The Awakening of Artemis” by John Calia

by renaissanceadmin • 2021-09-26 • 0 Comments

This is a standard political action-adventure novel involving the usual different levels of the US administrative and military conglomerate, demonstrating the various ways ambitious individuals can screw up the system by inserting their own personal agendas. It’s been done before many times, so the author must attract our attention through interesting characters and a creative…

“Madness” by Paityn E. Parque

by renaissanceadmin • 2021-09-19 • 0 Comments

All right! Finally, we have a novel of the Video Game Fantasy genre that is still, at the bottom, a novel. The key point is that the author did not concentrate on the game but on the characters. This is an author writing a book for her readers, not a gamer trying to attract the…

The Old Person Curse (Between Dark and Light, Book 1) By Chris von Halle

by renaissanceadmin • 2021-09-12 • 0 Comments

This novel is presented as a “children’s horror story.” The main character is 12 years old. This probably means that the target readership is between 10 and 14, and I’d say the author hit it spot on. For parents and librarians reading this review, I feel that the horrors dealt with are appropriate to the…

“Gene Pool” by A. E. Price

by renaissanceadmin • 2021-09-05 • 0 Comments

This is a story about an imaginary future where gene manipulation has created an elite class in which every child’s genetic characteristics are chosen at fertilization. The result is a heavily segregated caste system, where the non-modified are treated as less than human. This provides grist for all sorts of thematic material, but that conflict…

“Squabble of the Titans” by Justin Teerlinck

by renaissanceadmin • 2021-08-29 • 0 Comments

Where to start? This book is a work of great creativity and considerable variety: part documentary, part satire, part cartoon, part Science Fiction, quasi-historical and in total quite undefinable. However, I will try. The story is revealed in a series of letters between Theodore Roosevelt, former President of the United States, his family and supporters,…

“Junk Sale” by Patrick Lombardi

by renaissanceadmin • 2021-08-22 • 0 Comments

This collection of short stories is held together by a common attitude towards life, shared by the author and all the characters. It could best be described as, “You’re only a loser if it bothers you.” A change from the constant barrage of short stories written about losers because their troubles make us feel good…

“Straya” by Anthony O’Connor

by renaissanceadmin • 2021-08-15 • 0 Comments

Australians have a rather tenuous connection to the English language. They even have a name for their particular dialect, “Strine.” The nice thing about Strine for the rest of us is that it’s almost intelligible. When you see it written down, it’s quite possible, and even fun, to try to figure out where those words…

“Days of Grey” by Bonnie Allen

by renaissanceadmin • 2021-08-08 • 0 Comments

Road trips are boring. Anyone who has ever been on one knows it. Hour after hour of sitting in a vehicle with the unchanging road going by. Anyone who decides that a road trip will be the main action of the story needs to be aware of this. In most action-adventure fantasies of this sort,…

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