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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In Search of Hawaii

Posted by Gary Martine on Sunday, June 14, 2009, In : Hawaiiana 
Several days ago, I went in search of Hawaii - it's past I mean - modern Hawaii wears its history on short Aloha shirt sleeves - I traveled to one of the few active archeological sites on Oahu with a restored heiau (temple). 

Temple always meant to me something imposing in which everyone stood in awe.  The heiau at Waimea Bay, site of a once thriving Hawaiian settlement, was awesome but not in an imposing way, rather in a supposing way.  The stone tiers upon which the temple area is built wer...
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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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