20220122 - Dizzy

 

Apothecary\ trip, quiet these prophecies.\ Unsteady my mind.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - Dizzy

"Elephant in the Room", the first book of three in the HaikuPrajna Collection, is free every Saturday until February! Also, the SM-SARA standalone eBook will be $0.99 on Amazon US\EU from 2022 0127-0203! Read more here: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/2022/01/20210106-haikuprajna-project-roadmap.html

These poems are based on my metaphysical magic realism novella, "Fishing for Caribou", and can be found in the third book of the HaikuPrajna Collection.

"Fishing for Caribou" eBook, paperback and hardcover are available through Amazon Kindle apps and devices; read with Kindle Unlimited. Read more about it here, along with free poetry from the book: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/spear-thrower.html

For bite-sized insights into this metaphysical magic realism story, including excerpts straight from the book plus more from HaikuPrajna and Electric Armchair like free reading promotions on books, please follow us online: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/follow-on-social-media.html

Thank you for reading.

Until next time,

Allen W. McLean

20220118 - Review: Foundation

 

On a direct course,\ express hope to the future.\ Doubting one's failures.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - Review: Foundation by Isaac Asimov

"If the darkened ones refuse enlightenment, is it not the greater sign of their need for it?”

Hate to say it, but the first book in the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov had failed to impress me as much as I was hoping it would.

The book is a collection of short stories that Asimov submitted to magazines, and most are dialogues about interstellar politics and economical warfare, which is spiced with admittedly compelling narrative climaxes and religious and science fiction imagery. The plot is centred on its world building involving the Galactic Empire and a Foundation that was established to survive the Empire's collapse through a series of crises to ensure the establishment of a Second Empire. 

“Why, they don’t even understand their own colossi any longer. The machines work from generation to generation automatically, and the caretakers are a hereditary caste who would be helpless if a single D-tube in all that vast structure burnt out. The whole war is a battle between those two systems; between the Empire and the Foundation; between the big and the little."

Characters are introduced to become legendary figures of the distant past in the next string of chapters; readers are often told how characters react because they are largely flat mouth-pieces for the plot of the short stories which serves as to drive the book's larger narrative forward; this said, some traits are prevalent, and some people are followed for large spans of time while meeting aged characters or projections of the long-dead. 

“Exactly. None of us are. But I did receive some elementary training in my youth—enough to know what psychology is capable of, even if I can’t exploit its capabilities myself.

I felt Foundation covered too long of a time span, but the nature of the composition explains this while the story is there and has its moments, highlights including the hard-science-disguised-as-magic cursing of a starship and planetary ecumenopolis cities; just brimming with staple sci-fi ideas that writers, including Asimov himself, have been inspired by and have been extrapolating on for decades.

“What business of mine is the future? No doubt Seldon has foreseen it and prepared against it. There will be other crises in the time to come when money power has become as dead a force as religion is now. Let my successors solve those new problems, as I have solved the one of today.”

These Goodreads poems will be collected in a future edition of the HaikuPrajna Collection. More can be found on my Book Reviews page: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/goodreads-book-reviews.html

Check out #MyYearInBooks @goodreads to discover the books I read in 2021! Add me as a friend! https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2021/83965332 

"Fishing for Caribou" eBook, paperback and hardcover are available through Amazon Kindle apps and devices; read with Kindle Unlimited: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/spear-thrower.html

For bite-sized insights into this metaphysical magic realism story, including excerpts straight from the book plus more from HaikuPrajna and Electric Armchair like free reading promotions on books, please follow us online: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/follow-on-social-media.html

Thank you for reading.

Until next time,

Allen W. McLean

20220114 - Information Transfer

 

Never redundant,\ sharing the ways one can share,\ all the ways to throw.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - Information Transfer

"Elephant in the Room", the first book of three in the HaikuPrajna Collection, is free every Saturday until February! Read more here: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/2022/01/20210106-haikuprajna-project-roadmap.html

These poems are based on my metaphysical magic realism novella, "Fishing for Caribou", and can be found in the third book of the HaikuPrajna Collection.

"Fishing for Caribou" eBook, paperback and hardcover are available through Amazon Kindle apps and devices; read with Kindle Unlimited: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/spear-thrower.html

For bite-sized insights into this metaphysical magic realism story, including excerpts straight from the book plus more from HaikuPrajna and Electric Armchair like free reading promotions on books, please follow us online: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/follow-on-social-media.html

Thank you for reading.

Until next time,

Allen W. McLean

20220106 - HaikuPrajna Project Roadmap and Sales + "The Queen" + "Sacred Blindness"

Markings of the beast.\ Reminders of the blood shed\ by the ruler's hand.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - The Queen

Hello, Happy New Year!

Thank you for reading, it is past time for an updated Project Roadmap, where we look forward into the future of HaikuPrajna and the books I am writing. 

First off, "SM-SARA, Poems and Other Stories" will be getting a new print edition for its hardcover release that will contain the revised scripts from standalone editions of the stories, both of which will be available early 2022; next, Books IV, V and VI of the HaikuPrajna Collection are in first-draft stages with a book collecting book reviews and poetry, another book that contains some stories written for publications, and a third titled "Bucket and Train" by both April and myself, where I expect to release at least Books IV and V this year; and finally, both "Fluke" and "Orson Tripp" are aiming for late 2022 release days.

Last year I implemented a MailChimp widget on the site to replace the older email subscription systems, so I am asking all readers to please sign up to catch all of the upcoming sale dates on books that are already available on Kindle Unlimited and the Amazon store; 

. eBook Free Fridays every week Elephant in the Room: Free every Saturday until February

. SM-SARA standalone $0.99 us\eu 0127-0203 

. SM-SARA, Poems and Other Stories $0.99 eu 0211-18 

. Fishing for Caribou $0.99 us\eu 0228-0307

. SM-SARA, Poems and Other Stories $0.99 us\eu 0314-0321

. Escape Perennial City $0.99 us\eu 0321-0328

. All books available here: https://www.amazon.com/Allen-W.-McLean/e/B0867C5D24

This post may be updated in the future to reflect changes regarding these sales.

If you have noticed a lack of newer poetry, it is because all of my WIPs are first drafts at the moment, which I am hoping will change soon; currently, I am focusing on more meaningful reposting associated with the catalog of books at large, where I have noted down anniversary dates for each book and will be teasing each as they come nearer. 

That is it for the updates for now!

Once again, thank you for reading,

Allen W. McLean

These poems are based on my metaphysical magic realism novella, "Fishing for Caribou", and can be found in the third book of the HaikuPrajna Collection.

"Fishing for Caribou" eBook, paperback and hardcover are available through Amazon Kindle apps and devices; read with Kindle Unlimited: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/spear-thrower.html

For bite-sized insights into this metaphysical magic realism story, including excerpts straight from the book plus more from HaikuPrajna and Electric Armchair like free reading promotions on books, please follow us online: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/follow-on-social-media.html

The grass is alive,\ but does not have an eye to\ see its holy world.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - Sacred Blindness

From "The Elephant in the Room" by Allen W. McLean