It's Been Real

New Video for "Blind Fool Running"

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This winter I still plan to publish my second literary novella, The Truth Is a Lone Assassin, but a lot of people don't know anything about my first literary novella, Blind Fool Running. So I made a new promotional video for it in January 2013 and this is it.

I'm primarily a science fiction author but I also write "literary science fiction" under the pen name Jonco Bugos. When my second novella is out in paperback and "Live" in Amazon's Kindle Store I'll post the new video for that book on at least one of my blogs (the footer at A Portrait of the Author as an old Man) and I'll embed it on the "News" page at michaelcasher.com and on the Jonco Bugos Page at Science Fiction for Thinkers.com, from the SciFiforThinkers Channel at YouTube.

Like most book "movies", this video is good, but the book is even better. Thanks for watching. Post Updated 3-10-13 to add video links for "The Truth Is a Lone Assassin"

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Die, Vampire, Die!

Pictured here is a science fiction author's newest enemy. With dragons finally dropping to second place but still holding strong, vampires — and especially erotic female vampires — have taken over the science fiction genre.

But how can that be? I ask myself. Vampires have nothing whatsoever to do with science so how could they possibly have anything to do with science fiction? They don't. Madison Avenue's stupid and unbridled ad copy writers have convinced science fiction fans — through television, movies and the Internet — that this is the new sci-fi. What they're selling is schlocky writing and smut in place of good science fiction. There's only one thing to say to that.

Die, Vampire, Die! Once and for all. Or else go back to the Horror genre where you really belong.

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False Advertising Sells

People who watch the SciFi Channel are seeing very little science fiction in that channel’s daily lineup these days. The money makers who run this channel have cashed in on the all the latest crazes, from dinosaurs to disasters. Monsters, vampires, horror, fantasy, diseases and, of course, dragons. People in black leather and black hoodies. Capes and swords. Witches and warlocks and shape-shifters. Flying sailboats. Ghosts. That kind of stuff.

It’s not science fiction by any stretch of the imagination. But it certainly sells.

The bottom line.

(Author's Note 7-22-09: A year after this posting, the SciFi Channel changed it's name from SciFi to SyFy. What that tells most of us is that the little bit of science fiction and the overabundance of Fantasy programming we'd been seeing now fits the channel's name. In other words, SyFy = Science Fiction and Fantasy. With all the monsters, vampires, ghosts, creepy characters and romance, I'd say the name SyFyHorSoap should be the official name of the former SciFi channel. What's next? Cartoons?)

In the Shadows

Where an independent science fiction author spends most of his waking hours.

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Homeless Dragons

I'm going to take a lot of heat for this but, after five years as a science fiction author, this has simply got to be said.

Pictured here is one of the biggest enemies of any science fiction writer. This creature belongs in the realm of Fantasy and not Sci-Fi.

Enough said.

Science Fiction for Thinkers

I don't write comic book sci-fi. There are no capes and swords, no hooded ghouls or superheroes in my books. That's called Fantasy which is often confused with Science Fiction.

Someone once asked me if I write the kind of books Stephen King writes. I told him no, that I don't write Horror. Besides, when you unmask real life, what you see is a lot spookier and astonishing than anything purely imaginary, and that's what I do.

I take an average American town or an average day in the life of an average man or woman and I peek under that rock and expose the supernatural roller-coaster ride that runs beneath it all. And on that ride many battles are won and lost and many unlikely heroes emerge and all of it seems so real. And that’s because most of it really is. And that's because there's a lot more to life than what we see, hear, smell, taste or feel. And much, much more than we think.