Browsing Archive: September, 2016

FIRST AMAZON REVIEW OF QUANTUM DEATH

Posted by Raymond Gaynor on Friday, September 30, 2016, In : Quantum Death 
First Amazon review for QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) posted at https://www.amazon.com/dp/0996325530: 

4/5 Stars - "Quantum Death left me on the edge of my seat beginning to end. I was so afraid for Koski and Falk and for the USA! Quantum physics comes in to play with new technology, and the Cerebus team for the US springs into action to save our country even as it was being destroyed and simultaneously, sold out from under us. Who was cyber attacking us? How? How could we defend ourselves? This...
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TIME FOR SOME CELEBRATORY MUSIC AND DANCE

Posted by Raymond Gaynor on Thursday, September 29, 2016, In : Quantum Death 
Having successfully begun the launch of QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016), I decided it was time to celebrate, and what better way to do so than with music and dance. 

The "Fab Four" were visiting Waikiki, and my partner and I decided it was time to meet the Beetles in person (a la live avatars) and re-experience the 60's to present with those iconic musicians, often alluded to as the outstanding musicians of our century. The Fab Four didn't disappoint. It proved more than a stroll down Memory (Penn...
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IT'S A BIRD...IT'S A PLANE...IT'S A WAVE GOODBYE!

Posted by Gary Martine on Friday, September 23, 2016, In : Quantum Death 

In QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016), A. G. Hayes and I introduce the Quantum Death Machine, a theoretical weapon not so much of mass destruction (WMD) as of mass infrastructure interference (WMII). In this new scenario, the objective isn't to destroy an enemy so much as paralyze it, allowing the aggressor to acquire all its resources intact. Our Quantum Death Machine is based on some of the emerging characteristics of theoretical #quantum physics and it's overarching #M-Superstring Theory. in the ...


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THE GHOST IN THE BOX

Posted by Raymond Gaynor on Tuesday, September 20, 2016, In : Quantum Death 

In QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016), Cerebrus Agents Koski and Falk are challenged with facing and defeating a kvantovaya mashina smerti or Quantum Death Machine (QDM) being used to bring the United States and all of the Americas to their knees. But is the alleged QDM a simple writer's MacGuffin or is it more substantial? Could it really happen? 


I believe the answer is "yes," which, I hope, makes this techno-thriller even more intensely gripping.


A deeper explanation is that the QDM is based on ...
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QUANTUM SUICIDE AND THE IMMORTAL CAT

Posted by Gary Martine on Monday, September 19, 2016, In : Quantum Death 
Okay, nice celestial diversions, but it's time to get back to exploring the unique box that QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) opened. Enter Schroedinger's Cat, a 1935 thought experiment by physicist Erwin Schroedinger that seemingly produces a quantum paradox, namely that a cat in a sealed box with a device designed to kill the cat at a random point in time, results in the [unobserved] cat being simultaneously alive and dead at any one point in time. In this so-called "Copenhagen interpretation" of...
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MORE MOONING WAIKIKI

Posted by Gary Martine on Monday, September 19, 2016, In : Hawaiiana 
I've been wanting to get back to moon, planet and star gazing, but ever since our two hurricanes, Madeline and Lester, it's hot and humid. Don't believe me? Look at this snapshot of the moon over Waikiki I took recently. 



This weather aggravates my asthma no end, and so, I've continued writing cloistered in my condo, with the windows closed and the air purifier on. What happened to paradise, you ask? It is a paradise; however, everything here flowers and pollenates during the hurricane season,...
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MOONING WAIKIKI

Posted by Gary Martine on Monday, September 12, 2016, In : Total Meltdown 
As promised, I turned my compact little Celestron 114 with Baader Planetarium Hyperion Mark III Zoom 24-8 mm lens on the half-moon over Waikiki and handheld my little Leica DM6 over the 18 mm sized lens opening, and here's what I got: 



I'm happy. It's the first time I've mooned Waikiki. Saturn was visible, too, but was unable to resolve the optical disparity between the high power 8mm telescope lens opening and my handheld camera. I'll try again tonight, though clouds appear to be moving in. 

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DOWN WITH ASTHMA, UP WITH FINDING KATE

Posted by Gary Martine on Sunday, September 11, 2016, In : Quantum Death 
Sorry not to post for awhile, but the two hurricanes, Madeline and Lester, soaked the mountains and stirred up the pollen, giving me allergic asthma. Every year this time like clockwork, but this time with serious asthma. A consummate author, I took this time to review and give A. G. Hayes new thriller, FINDING KATE (Savant, in production), a final proofreading. Whew! It's a true A. G. Hayes thriller, introducing Kate Keenan, who also appears in QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016). 




Just heard from a ...
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THE QUANTUM DEATH MACHINE EXPLAINED

Posted by Gary Martine on Sunday, September 4, 2016, In : Quantum Death 
I'm often asked to explain the details of how the kvantovaya mashina smerti, the Quantum Death Machine, in QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) worked. While all of what was disclosed in the book is true, at least to a lesser scale, I must admit to using it as a MacGuffin. For those who haven't heard that term before, a MacGuffin, is some goal, object, or other motivator that the protagonist pursues, usually with little or no narrative explanation, often that is actually not central to the overall act...
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PAPER BOOKS STILL IN STYLE

Posted by Gary Martine on Saturday, September 3, 2016, In : Quantum Death 
In today's Honolulu Star-Advertiser (our one and only traditional newspaper left) there was an article entitled, "Paper books still in style, survey finds." The article goes on to state that "Adult readers in the U.S. still strongly favor paper over e-books, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center. [In fact,] Around 65 percent of those surveyed had read a paperback or hardcover over the past year, compared with 28 percent who had read an e-book, Pew reported Thursday. Around 40 ...
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THE "GUTS" OF A THRILLER: THE HUMAN OR INHUMANE?

Posted by Gary Martine on Thursday, September 1, 2016, In : Quantum Death 
I'm often asked what I think makes up a good thriller. There are lots of ways of approaching that question, but, to me they all seem to boil down to the human or inhumane? That is, conveying the very essence of being human -- emotions -- or the very essence of being not human -- inhumane? I'd like to start with the latter. 

You might think the opposite of humanness would be inhumanness, but that's more the purview of fantasy, namely horror or terror. In the world of thrillers it isn't what's i...
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