Quantum Death Excerpt 1

QUANTUM DEATH by A. G. Hayes with Raymond Gaynor – Excerpt #1 (This Excerpt is Family Rated): Susan Koski eased out of bed without making a sound. Joseph Falk never moved, the top of his head showing from beneath the covers assured her he was fast asleep. Slowly she crept to the bedroom door, turned…

The Quantum Death Machine Explained

I’m often asked to explain the details of how the kvantovaya mashina smerti, the Quantum Death Machine, in QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) worked. While all of what was disclosed in the book is true, at least to a lesser scale, I must admit to using it as a #MacGuffin. For those who haven’t heard that…

PAPERBACKS STILL IN STYLE

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…

Thrillers: The Human and Inhumane

I’m often asked what I think makes up a good #thriller. There are lots of ways of approaching that question, but, to me they all seem to boil down to the #human or #inhumane? That is, conveying the very essence of being human — #emotions — or the very essence of being not human —…

THE SUBMARINE IN QUANTUM DEATH

The Russian #submarine I chose to capture Falk is a Severodvinsk/Yassin-class beauty, the newest fourth generation, nuclear-powered, multipurpose attack submarine. Taking literary license, I called it a Yasmin-Class submarine and named it “Severodvinsk.” When Koski’s hover-jet is detected by the submarine, the only thing they could do was run away as fast as possible, as…

SHOULDN’T ALL THRILLERS HAVE VILLAINS?

It’s said that powering every #thriller is “tension” that typically comes from the existence of a protagonist and antagonist. I was taught this by the best, but I’ve always wondered if an antagonist-villain was really necessary to power a thriller. One thing about QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) that’s different than many other thrillers, is that…

Quantum Strangeness & Other Oddities

A lot of research went into the writing of #QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) by A. G. Hayes and, yours truly, Raymond Gaynor. In fact, over two years of in-depth research went into just getting a grasp on what is often called #Quantum Strangeness. In particle physics, “strangeness” is a property of very small particles like…

THE OTHER SIDE OF A THRILLER

True, a thriller need be no more than a work that thrills readers — a sort of wild carnival ride — spanning every possible genre. I, however, have always felt that action needs a counterpoint in order to keep the action new and exciting. My favorite counterpoint is romance, and QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) is…

A HAWAIIAN 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…

The Delphi

In co-authoring QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016), A. G. Hayes and I created a United States reeling from a series of #quantum ‘events’ and #Bitcoin ‘auctions’ so opaque that it was impossible for the government, military and civilian agencies to determine with reasonable certainty who was behind them in order to construct a defense. At first,…