Chicken or Egg?

April 21, 2020

Which came first, lack of infrastructure to handle a pandemic like COVID-19, or the COVID-19 pandemic? I can't think of a more cogent question today. Virtually everything today that isn't "working" well is being blamed on COVID-19, and, well, maybe to some extent that's true. COVID-19 is the spark that ignited interest in all the failings of our current infrastructures from politics, to government, economics, transportation, education, social services (my furloughed partner has been waiting for over a month for any federal or state unemployment assistance), agriculture, petroleum industries, small businesses, retailers...need I go on? But I believe COVID-19 is only the spark. The infrastructure problems existed long before COVID-19, and, sadly, during this opportunity to explore, identify and "fix" our broken infrastructure, we aren't doing this. Not as a nation. Not in cooperation.

Is the answer to ignore COVID-19 protection, and just "get on with business?" Is it really business and money that is the answer? Again, I don't think so. First we need to address those broken infrastructures, something that will pay off in the future, and eventually bring business and money back, this time, in correct relationship to the myriad facets of activity our nation engages in.

Is it about federal verses states' rights? Immigration? Gun rights? Again, I don't think so. These are smoke veiling the real, and decidedly difficult, issues. So how can I as an author help address these underlying problems? I'm busy working my way through the third, and I hope, final edit of my new Savant Books and Publications' novel, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos, in preparation) in which I address many of these infrastructure issues including some truly novel fixes.

 

A. G. HAYES AND ME

March 14, 2020
It has been my good fortune to have worked on QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2019) with the imminent author of thrillers, A. G. Hayes. In this fifth work in the Koski and Falk Secret Agent Series, Susan Koski and her partner Joe Falk take on their most complex and dangerous case yet: The Quantum Death Machine.


Since then A. G. and I have ended up in almost daily conversations about Koski and Falk, and most recently, his developing five-book Kate Keenan Special Assignment series, the first work being F...
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"DIS" MISSED!

March 14, 2020
Some years ago, the world seemed on a singular path towards global integration. There were a mess of "new world order" conspiracy theories following in the wake, but, all in all, the science of prediction -- futuring, visioning, superforcasting --consistently described a variety of scenarios that led to a revolution in conscious awareness in humans and domestic animals, a new more humane humanism, ecologically-oriented industry and an exponential increase in worldwide economic efficiency and ...
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THE END OF ANOTHER ERA?

March 13, 2020
Once again, history repeats.

Ushered in by birth control, the 60s through the 70s was the era of “Free Love,” until in the 80s when innocence was lost to the HIV epidemic.

Fast forward to the 00s when Facebook, taking advantage of computers, cell phones and the internet, ushered in a new era: one in which people could establish social connections and physical relationships with others easily anywhere on the planet. Our recently enjoyed era of “Connection” innocence is now being lost to ...

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AM I QUANTUM CRAZY OR IS THIS WORLD CHANGED?

March 11, 2020
Talk about quantum strangeness: This is becoming one crazy world!  I recall the world slowly advancing towards global integration and maybe even global consciousness. You know: the little blue marble ripping through our universe dragging its own version of world spacetime with it. Then suddenly. Poof. Something changed. 

I've been thinking a lot about this lately as I edit "The Edge of Madness" for Aignos Publishing, the avant garde imprint of Savant Books and Publications, and I think I've fi...
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TAKING WRITING TO THE EDGE OF MADNESS

August 9, 2019
It's my special pleasure to announce that Aignos Publishing, an imprint of Savant Books and Publications, has accepted my newest techno-thriller, "The Edge of Madness: Shadow" for publication. Taking up where TOTAL MELTDOWN by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese (Borgo/Wildside 2009) left off, NewAmerica, now a shadow of the former United States of America, provides a challenging and dangerous future place for three young firebrands to live -- dystopic science fiction that rings all too true i...
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WORKING WITH SOUL

July 27, 2019
I've been consulting these last three weeks almost daily with my friend and co-author A. G. Hayes regarding the sequel to his newest book, 68 VIA CONDOTTI: BOOK ONE - ETERNITY LTD (Savant 2019), the third in his "Kate Keenan Special Assignment" series, regarding the possibility and nature of the "soul" of highly intelligent artificially intelligent robots. In the first book of three, the revealing of a self-programming, highly intelligent, human-appearing robot causes the Vatican, whose missi...
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DIMENSIONS, UNIVERSES AND THE COSMOS

July 6, 2018
M-Superstring Theory continues to advance and in the process reveal new and very unusual properties of what I can only call Pythagorus' Cosmos. In fact, M-Superstring Theory reaches back almost 3000 years to ancient Greece and the Father of Just About Everything, Pythagorus, and his "music of the spheres." Little did he know back then (or did he?) that he'd uncovered the basics of a Unified Field Theory, that ideal that eluded even Einstein up to his death. Okay. So, Pythagorus' Cosmos. What ...
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Savant Bookstore Honolulu MARCH MADNESS SALE!

February 20, 2018


MARCH MADNESS SALE

exclusively at Savant Bookstore Honolulu

www.savantbookstorehonolulu.com


50% off Suggested Retail Price (SRP) of select, in-house display books at our in-house bookstore throughout March 2018 while stocks last,


OR

25% off SRP on all other in-house and online softcover books throughout March 2018 using discount code MARCHMAD


AND

Up to 90% off Suggested Retail Price (SRP) for all our Amazon Kindle eBooks starting 5 March and ending 12 March 2018 via a Kindle Countdown Deal...


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REVERSING THE "ARROW OF TIME"

January 4, 2018
YES, you heard correctly!  Physicist Roberto Serra of the Federal University of ABC in Santo Andre, Brazil reported an experiment where heat flowed from cold to hot (rather than as the one-way "arrow of time" would suggest only from hot to cold). While a small step, it suggests that time's unidirectional flow may be more relative than absolute. 

Stephen Hawking recently suggested that when charged particles get sucked into a black hole, they leave behind a holographic imprint on the event hori...

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QUANTUM QU-BITS

December 25, 2017

Many would say that a computational "bit" is a single unit of information. It might, however, be more correct to say that a contemporary computational "bit" can represent a single datum, while a combination of bits can represent a single unit of information. For example, consider the number "1" (as opposed to the number "0"). In essence, it represents a numerical datum that can be mathematically manipulated, but doesn't, as such, represent anything beyond that. However, by adding "car," it be...


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A BRAVE NEW WORLD

December 20, 2017
Sitting in my evening chair, listening to the news, pondering our economic situation and that presented in A. G. Hayes and my thriller, QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016), I was surprised to find the two worlds moving ever closer, and worse, hearing the politicians cheer it on. For want of a few dollars, America's leaders are selling our nation into monstrous debt, the kind that will undoubtedly rise on its haunches in the distant future and tear asunder what few social nets are left to people in or...
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THE REAL SHARK TANK

December 18, 2017
I rarely watch television, greatly preferring books and their thought-richness to in-my-face entertainment, but the other day while reading an advance copy of Daniel Bradford's outstanding western, BO HENRY AT THREE FORKS (Savant, in press), I noticed out of the corner of my eye ABC's  "The Shark Tank." Humans posing as monetary sharks. The epitome of economic Trumpism, but, in fact, nothing at all like real sharks. 



We have plenty of real sharks in Hawaii: sand, white tip, black tip, even tig...

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SHOULD KOSKI AND FALK DANCE?

December 15, 2017
Being an avid amateur competitive dancer and having co-authored QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) with A. G. Hayes, I've been discussing with A. G. a sequel adventure I'm calling "The Bridge at Vittorio Veneto." In it, Koski and Falk would each be compelled to face their pasts that have continued to get in the way of their developing relationship. What I'd like to do is to end it with an intimate dance. 


It all started when I received a new competition tail suit. I'm somewhat short in stature for a ...
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MORE GOBBLTY-GOOK OR SOMETHING FOR WHICH TO BE REALLY THANKFUL?

November 24, 2017
It's Thanksgiving evening, and, stuffed tighter than a Thanksgiving turkey, hot cuppa in hand, I've been sitting back in my comfort chair and counting all the things for which I am this year most thankful. You know all the usual ones, so I skip on to Higher-Dimensional Gravity. Yep, as the co-author with A. G. Hayes of QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2017), for what could I be more thankful than that? After all, in the story the Quantum Death Machine is a Hitchcock macguffin, a device, largely unexplai...
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HAVE QUANTA, WILL TRAVEL

November 22, 2017
In Science News October 28, 2017, on page 14, there appeared a first report of a "quantum video chat [that] links Asia [and] Europe." In the article, a quantum video link is established riding on light particles. That probably sounds mundane, but, in fact, when you add the usual quantum physics attributes such as "instantaneous (think concurrent)," "strange," "teleportation," "unlimited distance" you get a better idea of what this experiment represents. Much like the Quantum Death Machine in ...
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ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER RESTAURANT

November 9, 2017
One of my favorite things to do is to go out to lunch to meet other authors, writers and readers. Today was no exception. My lunch began at Ala Moana Shopping Center. While considering where to lunch, I had to stop at the Apple Store (never pass an Apple store without stopping in, asking a question and learning something new to help publicize my books). Then, on a whim, a reader I met and I when to the nearest Ramen shop. Yum. Now that’s a noon well spent!


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A NEXT-DOOR QUANTUM EVENT

October 24, 2017
While the word "quantum" often conjures up visions of the dark cosmos or mysterious occurrences not entirely inappropriate this time of year with Halloween looming a week away), things quantum can also be experienced in our real world in real time. Take for instance last night: Honolulu, Hawaii, the land of warm, sunny days and gentle trade winds, experienced it's annual monsoon, separating the hot, humid days of late fall and the cool, sunny days of winter, spring and summer. I instantly gra...

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QUANTUM DINING

October 20, 2017
ALOHA Everyone! Yes, today's blog is truly about "quantum dining" which, translated, means dining with a copy of QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) by A. G. Hayes with, you guessed it, me, Raymond Gaynor, aka Gary Martine, D. S. Janik and/or Daniel S. Janik. This afternoon, I visited a favorite Vietnamese restaurant that serves delicious Pho, a soup not unlike Japanese Ramen but with a totally different taste. 


Yum. While waiting, I displayed my newest book and generated some surprising interest. Fir...
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Aignos Publishing's New "Screenplay Novel" Genre

October 8, 2017
I've been around authoring for some years, but I never thought I'd witness the birth of an entirely new genre - not some small modification by adding an adjective here or adverb there, but an entirely new genre! 

I think all of us in the book authoring and publishing world have been wondering if there might be a bridge between youth of today and books. After all, youth today have multi-million-dollar 3-D IMAX movies, YouTube, anime, video games, a veritable cornucopia of visually-directed work...
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Gary Martine aka Raymond Gaynor is a reclusive writer, artist, photographer and videographer who, in his words, "lives and breathes" San Francisco.

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