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Guest Author and Giveaway: David Halperin

For months before Journal of a UFO Investigator was published, I struggled to find a single sentence to describe the novel.  At last a friend pointed out that I already had one.  It was a gift of novelist Keith Donohue, in the praise he kindly wrote for the book:  “A compelling reimagining of the myth of UFOs … intertwined with the deepest longings of a teenage boy.”

 I was a teenage boy somewhat like my book’s narrator, his awareness bounded and shaped by his longings—for all the normal things teenage boys yearn for, plus a few unique to him.  (Like, that his terminally ill mother somehow get well.)  Like “Danny Shapiro,” I coped with these longings by becoming a teen “UFOlogist,” as we UFO buffs proudly called ourselves.  Fortunately or unfortunately, most of the things that happen to Danny in the book never happened to me.  “The UFO fell from the sky,” Danny’s story begins, “on the night of December 20, 1962, the week of my thirteenth birthday.”  It nearly crushes Danny in the process.  That never happened to me.  To this day, I’ve never seen a UFO.

 There’s a sense, though, in which this first scene of the novel is autobiographical.
 How vividly I imagined it, when I was thirteen like Danny!  I would be standing outside my house, not far from it, gazing up into the starry sky.  A glowing red disk—large enough, close enough that it had to be real, could not possibly be anything ordinary—would blaze its way, as I watched, across the heavens.  I never saw this; it never happened.  But it could happen.  It would happen.  These disks, mysterious and uncontrollable invaders of our skies, were there for me to see.  Sooner or later I would see them.

Then there’s the dream.  (Or perhaps it was a waking fantasy; at this distance of time, I can’t be sure.)  I had it sometime when I was a teenager.  In the dream—or fantasy, but I think it was a dream—I was in a rambling old house somewhere out in the country.  I’d come for a meeting of ultra-serious teenagers like myself, scientific sorts, dedicated to exploring the mysteries that lie just beyond the boundaries of science.  There was a short, pudgy boy with blond hair, dressed (as was I) in jacket and tie.  And a beautiful girl, also blond, wearing an evening dress.

 For 35 years that dream stayed with me.  When I sat down to write Journal of a UFO Investigator, I set it in motion.  You can read it as the scene, about a sixth of the way into the book, where Danny visits the old farmhouse that’s the headquarters of the “Super-Science Society” and meets his rival-to-be Tom.  Also Rochelle, whose charms will seduce him into alien worlds of wonder, terror, ultimately wisdom.

 Keith Donohue was right.  UFOs are a myth.  That’s what Jung called them, in one of the last books he published before his death, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies.  By “myth,” Jung didn’t mean “bunk,” “hooey.”  He intended something supremely important, a sort of collective dream of the species, emerging dream-like from our shared unconscious.  For most of my adolescent years that myth lodged itself in my soul, where all true myths belong.  It got itself tangled up with more mundane longings for … well, for a girl kind of like Rochelle.  Who herself takes on mythical dimensions as the story unfolds—sexy and dangerous, but also sage and mentoring.  Free-loving teenager and archetypal Wise Woman in one.

 Now, many years later, I’ve told the UFO myth as my story, my dream. 

 That, in one sentence, is what Journal of a UFO Investigator is about.

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Book Review: Virtual Pulp by Henry Brown

Title: Virtual Pulp
Author: Henry Brown
Paperback: 140 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace (October 13, 2010)

Ratings:

★ ★ ★


My thoughts:

Virtual Pulp is a collection of 5 short stories: The Bloodstained Defile, Barbarian Nation, Radical Times, Thus Spake the Bard, and Fever Dream Nemesis.

I enjoyed this book, though only liked the first and the third short stories. The first story is about the 3 warriors from different races, united by their will to survive the war from an evil sorcerer. The third one is about the love story of a white man and black woman set in the time where union of white and colored people is not allowed.

This is recommended to all readers who like to read short stories and into historical-action-adventure.

 About the book:

From medieval Europe to Reconstruction; from a post-apocalyptic future to an alien world's Dark Ages, the drums pound in adrenaline-charged unison. Strap yourself in for a wild escape from the mundane, into adventures that transcend space and time.Allan of Barnsdale pledges loyalty to a doomed knight in exchange for inspiration to craft his tale of King Arthur...never imagining they are en route to an ambush by outlaws in Sherwood Forest.Pick Garver returns to his hometown after the Civil War a hero to some, a turncoat to most, and less likely to be with his true love than when he left.Three warriors from vastly different races must battle a sorcerer, an invading armada, and each other, while desperately seeking honor in a world where treachery is the norm.Mechanic, armchair engineer and hot-dog pilot Rebble Rauser and his fellow citizens of the "Barbarian Nation" have their hands full protecting their sovereignty with blazing wing guns when an old rival of Rebble's makes a surprise visit during a war in a chaotic American future.The convenience of E-reading is given a pulp magazine flavor in this fusion of quality writing with the imaginative adventure-lust of yesteryear. - Goodreads

About the author:

Men's fiction/retro-pulp writer Henry Brown has been a voracious reader for most of his life. In addition to devouring fiction of most genres, he has been a history buff from a young age, and a WWII afficinado by the age of 17. Dude-lit, action adventure and pulp fiction topped his reading list for many years. He entered the military upon graduation from high school and volunteered for an elite unit. Upon his return to civilian life years later, he earned a degree in the arts, but spent most of his college elective credits on military history courses. His passion for dude-lit led him to create the Two-Fisted Blogger web log, where he plans to help reawaken an interest in fiction for men. - Amazon







Note: I received a review copy of this book free from the author, Henry Brown. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.