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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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). 




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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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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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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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TOTAL MELTDOWN Released by Borgo Press

Posted by Gary Martine on Saturday, September 5, 2009, In : Total Meltdown 
It's my (and certainly also my co-author William Maltese') pleasure to announce that TOTAL MELTDOWN has been released by Borgo Press and is now available on Amazon.com, BarnesAndNoble.com and at bookstores of merit across the USA. 

Ever wondered where the world is headed?  Try this:  President-Elect Mathias "Alexander the Great" Jackson learns on election eve that the current President has resigned with over a trillion dollars in petroleum securities, leaving the US leaderless and facing an e...
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"Total Meltdown" Nears Release

Posted by Gary Martine on Saturday, August 29, 2009, In : New Books 
OK - it's all my fault!  I've been remiss in sitting down before my trusty MacBook and going onto the internet to attend to my blogging.  But I promise you, it's been for a good reason:  I've been busy emailing co-author William Maltese about when Wildside/Borgo will be releasing our m/m erotic political thriller, TOTAL MELTDOWN, only to find that Wildside/Borgo claims it is nearing immanent release!  Hopefully we'll hear something this week or next, and we can all run down to our nearest boo...
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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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Coffee Talk Romance GLBT Discussion

Posted by Gary Martine on Saturday, June 6, 2009, In : New Books 
Today was Coffee Talk Romance GLBT Discussion day, and I enjoyed posting excerpts from "Kingsley & I" and my newest release, "Kingsley & I Together."  It was a fun discussion, and I hope you will visit and look over the interesting information that was teased from me.  I also talked about "Total Meltdown" a bit, and some more about what I'm doing right now in Hawaii researching my next work tentatively entitled "The Sword of Kamehameha." 

This afternoon I'm off to look for the "Birthing Stone...
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Love Affair

Posted by Gary Martine on Tuesday, June 2, 2009, In : New Books 
A month or so ago, when I was reflecting on my XXXX HOT m/m erotic romance political thriller manuscript entitled Total Meltdown that I had just completed, a sudden thought occurred to me:  I had asked fellow writer William Maltese to write a short cover blurb for another work I had just completed, Kingsley & I Together, and being an admirer of his, sent him the manuscript to read.  One thing led to another and soon William at my invitation had his sleeves rolled up and was licking the sharp ...
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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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