by erictknight | Feb 24, 2016 | action and adventure, action thriller, creative writing, dystopia, fiction, sci fi, science fiction, short story, suspense, thriller, writing
Another fifteen minutes of trudging through lightless undergrowth brought them to another clearing. This one was larger than the last. On the far side stood a small cluster of gray structures, squat and ugly. ‘Crete pads, left over from the last war. Bunkers,...
by erictknight | Feb 22, 2016 | action and adventure, action thriller, creative writing, drama, dystopia, fiction, sci fi, science fiction, short story, suspense, thriller, writing
They left the cheap room they had rented two hours before dawn. The morning was nearly as hot and stifling as the day, the air so thick you could breathe it, laden with heavy odors of rot and grease. The intermittent street lamps seemed to float in the haze, more...
by erictknight | Feb 20, 2016 | action and adventure, action thriller, creative writing, drama, dystopia, fiction, sci fi, science fiction, suspense, thriller, writing
The square man gripped the halfer’s arms in his thick hands and shifted his feet in the gray mud of the alley. The alley was stifling, thick with the sour stench of urine and fear, steaming in the tropical heat. Puddles in the mud reflected cracked brick walls...
by erictknight | Feb 28, 2015 | book reviews, Michael Patrick Hicks, sci fi, science fiction
Michael Patrick Hicks’ novel Convergence had me at the first sentence: “Murder is easy when you wrap a cause around it, like a flag or a god—or money.” The narrator’s cause is money and really, what else is left to him? The Pacific Rim Coalition has invaded, the US...
by erictknight | Feb 21, 2015 | book reviews, Nick Cole, sci fi, science fiction, The Red King
I’m not quite sure how I stumbled onto Nick Cole’s book Red King, from the Apocalypse Weird Saga. I think I fell down into one of those Internet rabbit holes (it happens periodically, maybe more often than that) and when I snapped on my penlight, lo and behold, there...
