Browsing Archive: August, 2016

THE SUBMARINE IN QUANTUM DEATH

Posted by Gary Martine on Wednesday, August 31, 2016, In : Quantum Death 
The Russian submarine I chose to capture Falk is a Severodvinsk/Yassin-class beauty, the newest fourth generation, nuclear-powered, multipurpose attack submarine. Taking literary license, I called it a Yasmin-Class submarine and named it "Severodvinsk."


When Koski's hover-jet is detected by the submarine, the only thing they could do was run away as fast as possible, as this class is said to be armed with a total of 32 or more sea to air/ground cruise missiles, as well as an array of anti-shi...
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SHOULDN'T ALL THRILLERS HAVE A VILLAIN?

Posted by Gary Martine on Wednesday, August 31, 2016, In : Quantum Death 
It's said that powering every thriller is "tension" that typically comes from the existence of a protagonist and antagonist. I was taught this by the best, but I've always wondered if an antagonist-villain was really necessary to power a thriller. One thing about QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) that's different than many other thrillers, is that there is no personification of evil, no antagonist-villain per se. In that sense, perhaps, QUANTUM DEATH is more of a mystery by definition. And yet...

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QUANTUM STRANGENESS AND OTHER ODDITIES

Posted by Gary Martine on Tuesday, August 30, 2016, In : Quantum Death 
A lot of research went into the writing of QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) by A. G. Hayes and, yours truly, Raymond Gaynor. In fact, over two years of in-depth research went into just getting a grasp on what is often called #Quantum Strangeness. In particle physics, "strangeness" is a property of very small particles like quarks and is expressed as a quantum number. These numbers have names as well, like strangeness, charm, topness and bottomness. In a more general sense, however, the physics of ...
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THE OTHER SIDE OF A THRILLER

Posted by Gary Martine on Sunday, August 28, 2016, In : Quantum Death 

True, a thriller need be no more than a work that thrills readers -- a sort of wild carnival ride -- spanning every possible genre. I, however, have always felt that action needs a counterpoint in order to keep the action new and exciting. My favorite counterpoint is romance, and QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) is a good example of this. While the action takes unfolds, so does the growing relationship between Koski and Falk, begun in the first of the Koski and Falk Series, WHO'S KILLING ALL THE L...
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A HAWAIIAN QUANTUM DEATH

Posted by Gary Martine on Sunday, August 28, 2016, In : Quantum Death 
While it's absolutely true that I "live and breath San Francisco," I've a penchant for paradise, and spend a good portion of my life writing on Oahu. Just ask A. G. Hayes or William Maltese, my co-authors on QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) and TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2011) respectively. Living in Hawaii is sort of a Michener tradition, I guess. Michener was an author I "teethed" on, and though he lived for five years on the Northshore Oahu while writing HAWAII, I personally prefer the more...
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THE DELPHI TECHNIQUE

Posted by Gary Martine on Sunday, August 28, 2016, In : Quantum Death 
In co-authoring QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016), A. G. Hayes and I created a United States reeling from a series of #quantum 'events' and #Bitcoin 'auctions' so opaque that it was impossible for the government, military and civilian agencies to determine with reasonable certainty who was behind them in order to construct a defense. At first, this posed a plot problem. How would multiple interacting agencies come to consensus when no consensus was likely to be forthcoming? It was then that it occu...
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THRILLERS IN THE NIGHT SKY

Posted by Gary Martine on Saturday, August 27, 2016, In : Quantum Death 
I'm often asked from where my inspirations for thriller books come. You might think because I like to write political-techno-thrillers, that it would come from the news, social media (political), my associations with technologically innovative groups (techno), or TV (thrillers). Nope. I'm also a sky-watcher. Call me an occultist, astrologist, alchemist, even an illusionist or 



magus if you like, but every clear night I retire after writing to my makeshift living room observatory, where I parse...
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WHERE TO START READING KOSKI & FALK THRILLERS

Posted by Gary Martine on Thursday, August 25, 2016, In : Quantum Death 
Having joined A. G. Hayes in this fifth Koski & Falk thriller, I have several times been asked if one has to read the others in the series in order to take full pleasure from QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016). I'm pleased to say, no. Mr. Hayes' style is such that one can begin with any one adventure and then expand before or after without loss. Still, there is the detail of their "growing" relationship, beginning with WHO'S KILLING ALL THE LAWYERS? (Savant 2011) through QUANTUM DEATH and, I daresay...
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KOSKI AND FALK

Posted by Gary Martine on Sunday, August 21, 2016, In : Quantum Death 
Koski and Falk, two outstanding agents of the ultra-secret Cerebrus agency, first appeared in print in multi-award-winning author, A. G. Hayes' WHO'S KILLING ALL THE LAWYERS? (Savant 2011). Since then Koski and Falk have appeared in four additional adventures, THE JUDAS LIST (Savant 2012), IMMINENT DANGER (Savant 2013), THE CHEMICAL FACTOR (Savant 2015) and now QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016). And their adventures have just begun. 


Already Savant Books and Publications is preparing to release FIND...
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THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING!

Posted by Gary Martine on Thursday, August 18, 2016, In : Quantum Death 
Yes, well, the title of a movie and an these days old cliche at best. Everyone knows Russia (the former USSR) has it out for the USA, or at least so it seems, even in QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016). 


Having had the unique opportunity of visiting the former USSR several times as a visiting scientist and naval officer pre- and immediately post-perestroika/glasnost, I can say in all honesty that, at least back then, even if they wanted to, they still couldn't have come. Wreak havoc in Eastern Europe...
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CYBERSECURITY/CYBERWAR

Posted by Gary Martine on Sunday, August 14, 2016, In : Quantum Death 




Everyone want to feel secure, but is that even possible in the 21st Century? It's barely 2016 and already nations are accusing other nations of digitally interfering with their national affairs including directing elections (see

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/11/us/politics/democratic-party-russia-hack-cyberattack.html?_r=0

for details). It's wise to remember that "feeling" secure is exactly that: a feeling. Reality is a totally different matter. In QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) the conflicting i...
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WHAT HAPPENS TO BOOK HEROS AFTER AN ADVENTURE?

Posted by Gary Martine on Sunday, August 14, 2016, In : New Books 
Ever wonder what happens to the protagonist-hero's after their book is published? I have. A. G. Hayes and I have been talking about writing a sequel to QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) dealing with what happens to Koski and Falk immediately after the adventure. They are, after all, closer than ever before. Both at the same time are concerned that their work could rob them of their partner at any time, and Falk is still recovering from a gunshot wound. Time, perhaps, for a "vacation." A little time...
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THE (DOUBLE-HEADED) EAGLE THAT TWEETED

Posted by Gary Martine on Friday, August 12, 2016, In : Quantum Death 
Russia these days is getting bad publicity, perhaps deservedly, but in QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016), a politico-techno-thriller, Raymond Gaynor (that's me) and my colleague, multi-award-winning author A. G. Hayes, paint Russia, or at least Russians, in a different light.


Post perestroika, post glasnost, while the USA bristles with frustration over a massive and crippling cyber-attack and looks menacingly towards Russia as the source, in a twist of fate, our "enemy" becomes a much needed "frien...
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IF PUTIN HAS HIS WAY...

Posted by Gary Martine on Friday, August 12, 2016, In : Quantum Death 
What can I say? I've now written two thrillers, each toying with the idea of the United States experiencing a kind of perestroika and glasnost not unlike the former USSR experienced under Gorbachov. In my latest novel, a politico-techno-thriller entitled QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) co-written with the incomparable A. G. Hayes, the United States faces just such a scenario.


In my previous work, TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2011), it actually happens, with what can only be called astounding re...
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CAN ONE THING REALLY BE IN TWO PLACES AT THE SAME TIME?

Posted by Gary Martine on Wednesday, August 10, 2016, In : Quantum Death 
Okay, so one of the premises of QUANTUM DEATH by A. G. Hayes with Raymond Gaynor (Savant 2016) is that the quantum entanglement phenomenon recently reported in the scientific literature will slowly be expanded to include larger and larger objects, despite my life partner's emphatic reiteration that, "I CAN'T BE IN TWO PLACES AT THE SAME TIME!" To this I agree, tempering my agreement with the words, "for now."  

But in QUANTUM DEATH, protagonist Kate Keenan, a brilliant computer scientist worki...
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RSS BLOG FEED TO AMAZON'S AUTHOR CENTRAL

Posted by Gary Martine on Monday, August 8, 2016, In : Quantum Death 
If you think quantum physics/theory/mechanics is difficult try setting up an RSS blog feed to another site. Oh, for some small measure of quantum simultaneity!

Okay, so I've wanted to jump into the new world of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and this is my first big plunge -- having new entries to my Raymond Gaynor blog like this one posted at http://garymartine.yolasite.com/author-blog.php appear on my Amazon Author Central page. Following three different sets of "Really Simple Suggestions" ...
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Quantum Death Hits Europe

Posted by Gary Martine on Sunday, August 7, 2016, In : Quantum Death 
I was pleased to see that my most recent book, QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016), published with multi-award-winning thriller writer A. G. Hayes, has received an Amsterdam Book Festival Award. While set throughout the USA and Pacific including Hawaii, the impact of the technology involved, that of quantum physics and more specifically the quantum singularity, will be of interest to everyone following CERN's new particle Super-Collider and the search for new particle characteristics. The Super-Colli...
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