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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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WORKING WITH SOUL

Posted by Gary Martine on Saturday, July 27, 2019, In : New Books 
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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REVERSING THE "ARROW OF TIME"

Posted by Gary Martine on Thursday, January 4, 2018, In : Quantum Death 
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

Posted by Gary Martine on Monday, December 25, 2017, In : Quantum Death 

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

Posted by Gary Martine on Wednesday, December 20, 2017, In : Quantum Death 
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

Posted by Gary Martine on Monday, December 18, 2017, In : New Books 
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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MORE GOBBLTY-GOOK OR SOMETHING FOR WHICH TO BE REALLY THANKFUL?

Posted by Gary Martine on Friday, November 24, 2017, In : Quantum Death 
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

Posted by Gary Martine on Wednesday, November 22, 2017, In : Quantum Death 
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

Posted by Gary Martine on Thursday, November 9, 2017, In : Quantum Death 
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

Posted by Gary Martine on Tuesday, October 24, 2017, In : Quantum Death 
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

Posted by Gary Martine on Friday, October 20, 2017, In : Quantum Death 
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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PROPHETIC, NOTHING LESS

Posted by Gary Martine on Friday, September 1, 2017, In : Quantum Death 
When I wrote QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2017) with A. G. Hayes, I never expected the plot would so quickly transform from techno-political thriller to modern day drama. Take the basic plot: North Korea at the lead, with China watching and cheering, and Russia, dare I say it, coming to the aid of American agents Koski and Falk. Or how about it's cyber-warfare/dark web/The Onion Ring (TOR)-based financing using Bitcoins? And how about the "Quantum Death Machine," originating in Russian and finding i...
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Quantum Death Turns Real

Posted by Gary Martine on Monday, August 7, 2017, In : Quantum Death 

When A. G. Hayes and I wrote QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016), neither of us had any idea that the futuristic plot would prove real. Recently North Korea stepped up its #cyberattacks in a manner not unlike that which we described. #Bitcoins and The Onion Ring (#TOR) "dark internet," both integral parts of the plot have become public watchwords. The #Delphi Method, invented by #Rand Corporation during the "Cold War" era, continues to be used in situations like we described. And Koski and Falk, A. G...
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HAVE PEN, WILL TRAVEL

Posted by Gary Martine on Saturday, April 15, 2017, In : Quantum Death 
It’s been a pretty crazy month, requiring some serious traveling, ultimately taking me away from my writing. Hadn’t planned to end up in Coos Bay, Oregon, but, well, that’s where I found myself for almost a week. It turned out it was just before tourist season and, while sunny in the afternoons, it was foggy, rainy and bitter cold at night and in the early mornings. What I remember most is the trees. Big, full, magnificent evergreens as far as the eye could see. I felt humbled. Some of ...
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CONGRATULATIONS GOODREADS BOOK GIVEAWAY WINNERS

Posted by Raymond Gaynor on Thursday, December 8, 2016, In : Quantum Death 
It's hard to believe that 6 December 2016 is past, signaling the end of my Goodreads Giveaway for ten (10) signed copies of QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) by A. G. Hayes with Raymond Gaynor. My personal congratulation to the winners and also to the 560 entrants who expressed an interest in QUANTUM DEATH. The book is available in both softcover ($16.95 from Amazon.com) and Kindle eBook format ($7.95), and can still be purchased for yourself or as a gift in time for the holidays. I don't know of a...
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GOODREADS HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY - QUANTUM DEATH

Posted by Raymond Gaynor on Sunday, November 6, 2016, In : Quantum Death 
It's my pleasure to announce a Goodreads' Holiday Giveaway. Enter between 6 November to 6 December 2016 to win a free first edition softcover copy of A. G. Hayes and Raymond Gaynor's QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) signed by co-author Raymond Gaynor.


To enter, go to 

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/210316-quantum-death

A great holiday gift for yourself, your family, friends or a discriminating thriller reader on your holiday gift list.

Wishing you the best of luck!
 
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DESPOTS, BREAD AND CIRCUSES

Posted by Raymond Gaynor on Thursday, November 3, 2016, In : Quantum Death 

In the past, antagonists in thrillers typically wore black hats and shot everyone, while protagonists wore white (or at least not-black) hats and, when pressured, shot reluctantly back. For many years this demarcation seemed inviolate. Why? The world up to the recent has been one of guns and bullets, where the white hats in one clever way or another stopped the bullets and saved the day. 


Today, neither antagonists nor protagonists even wear hats, making them initially indecipherable from each...


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WHERE IN THE WORLD...?

Posted by Raymond Gaynor on Thursday, October 27, 2016, In : Quantum Death 

The new breed of dictatorial politicians represent more than another adventure for special agents Tripler and Clarke — TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2005) — or Koski and Falk — QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016). They represent what's going awry in a world that is increasingly losing its core humanity. In a phrase, that's what's at the very heart of many contemporary thrillers. Not dystopia. Not violence. Not abuse. Not sex, money, power or arrogance. Without what makes humans human -- joy, m...


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BITCOINS AND THE THE DARK UNDERBELLY OF GLOBAL FINANCING

Posted by Raymond Gaynor on Friday, October 21, 2016, In : Quantum Death 

While scoping out thriller QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) with A. G. Hayes, it became clear that, in this increasingly explicit, business-oriented world, for plausibility's sake I would need to include something most thriller's don't: The dark world of international financing. Big, dark money, since we were talking regional, possibly even global cyberwarfare. Big, dark, laundered money that couldn't be traced, all of which brought me to Bitcoins.


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15 October to 15 November 2016 PRE-HOLIDAY SALE

Posted by Gary Martine on Sunday, October 9, 2016, In : Quantum Death 

I just wanted you to know that my thriller, QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) co-authored by A. G. Hayes, and most other Savant Books and Publications will be going on PRE-HOLIDAY SALE starting 15 October 2016 (details in press release at
https://www.prlog.org/12592572) in both softcover and eBook formats!
 


Sincerely,

Raymond Gaynor

Award-winning co-author of QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016)


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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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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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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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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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QUANTUM DEATH Stalks the World

Posted by Gary Martine on Tuesday, July 26, 2016, In : Quantum Death 
With the 2016 release of QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) a techno-thriller I had the pleasure of writing together with multi-award-winning author A. G. Hayes, the world enters a new age of terror.


Goodbye Atomic Age, hello M-Superstring/Multi-verse Age replete with the not-so-imaginary kvantovaya mashina smerti, KMS, or "Quantum Death Machine." Only three Cerebrus agents, the legendary Joe Falk and Susan Koski, along with Kate Keenan, stand between the world and total destruction. The fifth in A....
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QUANTUM DEATH APPROACHES

Posted by Gary Martine on Tuesday, February 23, 2016, In : New Books 
When A. G. Hayes asked me to work with him on his new political-techno thriller, QUANTUM DEATH, I ran to my computer and immediately began my contributions. It was an easy write: Everything flowed like water down a waterfall, as if Koski and Falk were talking directly to me about their adventure. Koski in particular talked directly to my heart. 




Where in the world could something as sinister as the the kvantovaya mashina smerti -- the 'Quantum Death Machine' -- come from you might ask? And is ...
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QUANTUM DEATH AWAITS KOSKI AND FALK

Posted by Gary Martine on Friday, February 12, 2016, In : New Books 
I'm so pleased to announce that Raymond Gaynor has just completed a manuscript entitled QUANTUM DEATH with A. G. Hayes for the fifth in his popular Koski and Falk series. It was a joy writing this politico-techno-thriller with multi-award-winning author A. G. Hayes, one I will long cherish. The manuscript was immediately picked up by Savant Books and Publications and has an anticipated release date of mid-2016. 

This is my first decidedly non-gay work, Koski and Falk being a legendary female-m...
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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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