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Chicken or Egg?

Posted by Gary Martine on Tuesday, April 21, 2020, In : The Edge of Madness: Shadow 

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 f...


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A. G. HAYES AND ME

Posted by Gary Martine on Saturday, March 14, 2020, In : The Edge of Madness: Shadow 
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!

Posted by Gary Martine on Saturday, March 14, 2020, In : The Edge of Madness: Shadow 
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?

Posted by Gary Martine on Friday, March 13, 2020, In : The Edge of Madness: Shadow 
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?

Posted by Gary Martine on Wednesday, March 11, 2020, In : The Edge of Madness: Shadow 
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

Posted by Gary Martine on Friday, August 9, 2019, In : The Edge of Madness: Shadow 
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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Time Out

Posted by Gary Martine on Sunday, July 19, 2009, In : New Books 
I just got back to the Bay area in time for the debut of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."  I suspect you're going to tell me that HP isn't gay, it's a straight as an arrow children's story.  And as for erotic, well, I'm sure its a matter of taste as to whether you find werewolves, evil and all things vaguely Wiccan erotic.  It's the last third of m/m erotic romance, I'm talking of. Yeah, the romance part. That, HP has aplenty in my opinion. What's interesting to me is its context. 

W...
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Back on Track

Posted by Gary Martine on Thursday, July 16, 2009, In : New Books 
It's great to be back in San Francsico and the good ole' USA. The warm sun and cool breezes here in the Bay Area are unlike anywhere I've been in the world. I couldn't help but drive over the inviting Golden Gate Bridge to Marin County and steal a couple recouperatiive hours at the ocean at Point Reyes National Seashore. The golden fields passing by on both sides of my open-air MGB reminded me of the words of Katerine Lee Bates in "America the Beautiful" - "O beautiful for spacious skies, For...
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On The Way Home...

Posted by Gary Martine on Sunday, July 12, 2009, In : New Books 
My sojourn in the world of things feudal Japanese having come to an end, I'm now flying high over the Pacific on my way to my beloved San Francisco with a short stop in Honolulu, for a last Mai Tai, of course.  My otherwise mundane trip (compared to "LOST") livened up briefly when I joined a Sophia's m/m erotic romance author's discussion at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sophia_titheniel/. Fun and even more interesting when the lovely passenger sitting next to me looked over onto the screen o...
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Closer to The Edge of Madness

Posted by Gary Martine on Saturday, July 4, 2009, In : New Books 
There's something about walking a thousand year-old, tree-lined street of feudal Kyoto in the afternoon, then grabbing a bullet train to end the day at 3 a.m. in the glittering neon-crusted night streets of modern Tokyo that is so mind-boggling as to drive one to madness. Which reminds me of "The Edge of Madness" book I'm working on even now as I travel throughout Japan trying to catch a whiff of its flavor, over 800 years ago around the mid-1200's BCE.

Picking up where "Total Meltdown" (Wild...
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The Edge of Madness

Posted by Gary Martine on Tuesday, June 30, 2009, In : New Books 
OK, enough of that Hawaiiana stuff - Aloha to Paradise, I'm off to Japan to check out sword manufacturing in the 1200's and meet with some master sword makers (that after visiting Seville a while back to check out ancient and modern Spanish sword manufacturing).  Did you know I fenced in college?  I competed in both foil and epee, later participating in saber till I got tired of the welt marks - our version of warrior tatoos.  I'm also looking forward to visiting some of the likely historical...
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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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