BOOK REVIEW: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

May 16, 2021 by Randal Eldon Greene in Book Reviews and tagged book review, classics, Kurt Vonnegut, medium, Negative Review, Sci-fi, Science Fiction, Slaughterhouse 5, Slaughterhouse Five, Slider | Leave a comment

Unpopular Opinion: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five is a bad novel. While taste is subjective when it comes to classics of all stripes, I found Slaughterhouse to be littered with problems from start to finish, from form to content. Read the whole book review on Medium.

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The Final Voyage

May 19, 2019 by Randal Eldon Greene in Fiction and tagged anthology, post-apocalypse, publications, Sci-fi, Science Fiction, Slider, Strange Mysteries 8, The Final Voyage, Whortleberry Press | 2 Comments

I’m very excited to announce that my first ever hard science fiction story is appearing in Strange Mysteries 8 (Whortleberry Press). I’ve written some pseudo-sci-fi pieces before. But those works are satire, utilizing sci-fi worlds to poke fun at our modern times. There’s War and @ChefNipsNips are the two I’m specifically referring to. So I don’t consider them serious science fiction. Keep an eye out for an upcoming interview with Midnight Mosaic that I hope better explains my relationship to genre writing.

The Final Voyage is a story about the last two humans on Earth who grew up on opposite sides of a divided island. Melody, the artist, has plans to take their last floating boat and sail away on a solo voyage as a kind of final performance art. Fausto, the practical one, wants her to stay and, through their union, give humanity a second chance. They are not a good match. So you watch and you wonder, Will they flounder or will they float?

If you’re a fan of fantastical writing, then you should check out Strange Mysteries 8. As the blurb states: This collection of stories includes the science-fictional, the fantastic, the serious and the not-so-serious. All these writers are strangely mysterious, so fasten your seat belt and enjoy the ride!

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