20220323 - Hector Blake (Second Edition)

  

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Burning through the fog, / restless warnings from the past. / Personified sloth.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - Hector Blake (Second Edition) 

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The month-long celebration is coming to an end for the first anniversary of "SM-SARA, Poems and Other Stories" being released on Amazon, where we released some of the short stories in the book as standalone ebooks on Kindle Unlimited; the updated hardcover, paperback and digital version of the second entry in the HaikuPrajna Collection is almost done! The penultimate new standalone edition being released is "Hector Blake"!

Hector Blake - Allen W. McLean: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09W8LYRXL

Description: 

Hector Blake longed for the excitement of his old life.

He had awoken in a dark room, the walls of which being impervious to his intense pyrokinesis, to fend off an endless one-on-one assault of enemies. He was, a day prior, living in peaceful retirement back home on Titan, once being a renowned superhero across the Sol system.

Now, adversaries flood the room he had found himself in, and his tools and abilities are all that he can use to stave off exhaustion while fighting personifications of his slothful thoughts. Hector’s applied displays incinerated such hindrances while reinvigorating him--but can he keep the fire alive, let alone bright enough to face a stronger burning willpower?

Hector Blake is a story that has been shared online in the past, and so it is the only ebook in this Collection that is not part of KDP Select because it is free to read on other sites. Please enjoy this short story through the following links and consider supporting this release by ordering your own copy on Amazon.

Medium.com: https://haikuprajna.medium.com/hector-blake-second-edition-329c5c9309e7

Vocal.media: https://vocal.media/fiction/hector-blake

Other posts: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/search/label/Hector%20Blake

[New! 20221122] https://books2read.com/u/bP7O6l

Check out "The Artifact" and the other stories from the Collection: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/2022/04/20220401-sm-sara-poetry-and-other.html 

(Updated 20220405)

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

Every week you can collect an ebook on Free Fridays! Selection rotates every few weeks; collect them all! "Hector Blake" is free to read online alongside book reviews and articles: 

https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/2022/03/20220323-hector-blake-second-edition.html

The current Project Roadmap has been updated with new sales. The 5W's About Me page has also been updated with the latest book release's bio.

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Thank you for reading.

Until next time,

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20220314 - The Cannon

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Clinging to the good, \ the longing for the work's goal. \ Transcend gravity.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - The Cannon

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The month-long celebration continues for the first anniversary of "SM-SARA, Poems and Other Stories" being released on Amazon where we are releasing some of the short stories in the book as standalone ebooks on Kindle Unlimited along with an updated hardcover, paperback and digital version of the second entry in the HaikuPrajna Collection; the next new standalone edition being released is fan-favorite "The Cannon"!

The Cannon - Allen W. McLean: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B09VGS3145

Description: 

Doctor Henry Parker is being hunted by those who wish to separate him from his life's work.

His initial reaction is bewilderment; he grieves, laments and becomes hostile. Their mutual craving for his work results in a citywide chase between all those who want his gravity-defying Cannon armour. At the end of his rope, Hank Parker searches for a way to end his stress, learning that he needs to root out his own clinging and to eliminate the reason that other people want to do him harm.

By doing so, he begins a new path toward redeeming himself.

Check out "The Artifact", another story from the Collection: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/2022/03/20220303-first-anniversary-of-sm-sara.html

"SM-SARA, Poems and Other Stories" eBook will be on sale from March 14th to the 21st for $0.99US\EU (original price $9.99), and I believe KDP allows eBooks to be updated, so Kindle readers should be able to enjoy these new and upcoming updates for free, however new physical readers should consider these changes before purchase. (Please contact me with any concerns)

The current Project Roadmap has been updated to reflect the new sale; an "Escape Perennial City" sale also runs from March 21st to the 28th. The 5W's About Me page has also been updated with the latest book release's bio.

Need more Bite-sized Insights to relieve your stress and suffering? Get @electricarmchair and @haikuprajna sent to your inbox for free Alchemic Wisdom via email, Medium or Substack including;

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. Previews, excerpts and mindful meditation haiku \ scifaiku poetry from my visionary and metaphysical \ magical realism stories, like the sci-fi superhero novel "Escape Perennial City" (available on #KindleUnlimited!)

. Music videos, art and lyrical poetry from April's psychedelic albums, such as "The Electric Gradient"

. eBook reading promotions

. Project Roadmaps

. and more free goodies

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If anyone reading this has a Medium account and needs followers to stay in the Medium Partner Program, I am asking you to please follow me and I'll follow you back! Less than 20 more followers to go! #MediumWriter #Medium

Thank you for reading.

Until next time,

Allen W. McLean

20220311 - SM-SARA - Kuiper belt Infantry Division Edition

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Her sonic cannon, \ the personified absurd. \ Rounds of samsara.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - SM-SARA Kuiper belt Infantry Division Edition

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This month, we are celebrating the first anniversary of "SM-SARA, Poems and Other Stories" being released on Amazon by releasing some of the short stories in the book as standalone ebooks on Kindle Unlimited along with an updated hardcover, paperback and digital version of the second entry in the HaikuPrajna Collection; the next new edition being released is the standalone "SM-SARA - Kuiper belt Infantry Division Edition"!

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B09VB55G5G/

Description: 

Contains "KID: A", a short story featuring Richard Abendsen, set before the events of "SM-SARA";

While on an unofficial MEGA Corp hunt, Veronica acts against the complacency of others who faced the absurdity of her partner being possessed by the mythical KID: A.

The Lunar bunker is not what it seems--at least, according to Richard Abendsen. The ace Hunter struggles to keep the bunker’s populace out of the cycle behind the SM-SARA cockpits, while the Maverick machine invasion on Mars keeps him bound to the armored Jackal the SM-SARA remotely pilots. Richard's abuse leads him to learn about those responsible for his reality and about the nature of both stress and suffering, all the while attempting to free himself from the bindings of SM-SARA.

Check out "The Artifact", another story from the Collection: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/2022/03/20220303-first-anniversary-of-sm-sara.html

"SM-SARA, Poems and Other Stories" eBook will be on sale from March 14th to the 21st for $0.99US\EU (original price $9.99), and I believe KDP allows eBooks to be updated, so Kindle readers should be able to enjoy these new and upcoming updates for free, however new physical readers should consider these changes before purchase. (Please contact me with any concerns)

The current Project Roadmap will be updated to reflect the new sale; an "Escape Perennial City" sale runs from March 21st to the 28th. The 5W's About Me page will also be updated with the latest book release's bio.

Need more Bite-sized Insights to relieve your stress and suffering? Get @electricarmchair and @haikuprajna sent to your inbox for free Alchemic Wisdom via email, Medium or Substack including;

. Goodreads reviews on books, comics and manga

. Previews, excerpts and mindful meditation haiku \ scifaiku poetry from my visionary and metaphysical \ magical realism stories, like the sci-fi superhero novel "Escape Perennial City" (available on #KindleUnlimited!)

. Music videos, art and lyrical poetry from April's psychedelic albums, such as "The Electric Gradient"

. eBook reading promotions

. Project Roadmaps

. and more free goodies

Please join us online at: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/follow-on-social-media.html

If anyone reading this has a Medium account and needs followers to stay in the Medium Partner Program, I am asking you to please follow me and I'll follow you back! Only 20 more followers to go! #MediumWriter #Medium

Thank you for reading.

Until next time,

Allen W. McLean

20220307 - Review: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

 

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An authentic dream, \ the myth of the modern man, \ transcends suffering.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - Review: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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"... I am required to do wrong. Everything I've done has been wrong from the start. Anyhow, now it's time to go home."

Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" is the myth of Rick Deckard, a modern Sisyphus, an absurd man whose job of bounty hunting lists of runaway androids was killing his soul, and who learned to love the electric animals he had hated because he had believed them to be fake; this is a nihilistic and existential story in the vein of Camus that deviated from the Absurd by rooting itself in neoplatonic concepts of the good, in the necessity of suffering for the alchemic transmigration of life.

"A mammoth corporation like this--it embodies too much experience. It possesses in fact a sort of group mind. And Eldon and Rachel Rosen consisted as spokesmen for that corporate entity. His mistake, evidently, had been in viewing them as individuals. It was a mistake he would not make again."

April had bought this book for me because she knew I was a fan of the story, which contains a few of the author's typical tropes, including laser tube pistols and hovercraft, with the focus on the differences and similarities between androids and humans, which we see through androids making mistakes when posing as humans, such as one running a parallel police agency, either due to a lack of humanity's shared social knowledge of from never being told they were an android to begin with, all lending to well-written action scenes and tense moments where humans distrust each other's authenticity.

The source material for the sci-fi hit "Blade Runner" was still somehow better without "tears in rain", and even asked the same "Is Deckard a replicant, or at least would he be better off as one?", but Rick said it might not matter if others knew if he owned a fake "animal" or not, blowing the entire debate out the window while solidifying the definitive answer as human; only a few background story pieces get dropped early on, like lead codpieces, being little referenced from the start, but nonetheless influence or inform the setting.

' "Buster is immortal, like Mercer. There's no difference." '

Still hit some of the usual metaphysical trippiness one would expect from PKD through Mercerism representing empathic love as the human group-mind, but the book is grounded, gritty and real foremost, which is why "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" is one of my favorite stories and why Philip K. Dick is one of my favorite writers, because of his ability to portray intangible concepts in reality, where animals represent the idea of feelings with no way to assume if they are real or fake until knowing by measuring one's objective empathic reactions or undergoing bone marrow examination, where Rick's hatred and inherent suffering are transcended into a deeper understanding of both real and fake emotions in both biological and artificial beings, as he realized that all suffering is both artificial in the sense of being self-imposed, and authentic by being a catalyst for transcending the suffering of others, but only if one had first transcended themselves alone without anything but the wisdom they had gained from others.

' "I can't see them." "You're too close," Mercer said. "You have to be a long way off, the way the androids are. They have a better perspective." '

Philip K. Dick wrote about what it means to be alive through how the different kinds of existence perceive each other, with desperate androids being as far from the platonic concept of "the good" as possible, yet still were striving to see for they only wanted to know the truth of empathy and Mercerism, and so, in discrediting the human nature to love, they had acknowledged that it in fact existed for the humans; but the androids had only displayed their inability to understand, or perhaps--echoing the primeval Fall of Man--their inability to grasp that they were just as capable of these feats but were both wholly transcendent of them and entirely defeated, by them, in life.

These Goodreads poems will be collected in a future edition of the HaikuPrajna Collection. More can be found on my Book Reviews page, including my Goodreads Years in Review (add me as a friend!): https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/goodreads-book-reviews.html

"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

Need more Bite-sized Insights to relieve your stress and suffering? Get @electricarmchair and @haikuprajna sent to your inbox for free Alchemic Wisdom via email, Medium or Substack including;

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. Music videos, art and lyrical poetry from April's psychedelic albums, such as "The Electric Gradient"

. eBook reading promotions

. Project Roadmaps

. and more free goodies

Please join us online at: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/follow-on-social-media.html

It's been one year since "SM-SARA, Poems and Other Stories" was released on Amazon, and we are celebrating this anniversary by releasing "The Artifact" as a standalone ebook!

https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/2022/03/20220303-first-anniversary-of-sm-sara.html

Please check out April's newest release! Electric Armchair - "Utopian Hell"

Thank you for reading.

Until next time,

Allen W. McLean

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20220303 - First Anniversary of "SM-SARA, Poems and Other Stories" + "The Artifact"

Expectations feared.\ A deep space anomaly.\ Complacent hatred.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - The Artifact

It's been one year since "SM-SARA, Poems and Other Stories" was released on Amazon, and we are celebrating this anniversary by releasing "The Artifact" as a standalone ebook!

Cover background illustrated by April Salisbury-White

The Artifact - Allen W. McLean: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09TVCFLW1

Description:

Captains Bruce Parr and Trevor Rogers had put another argument behind them.
The two were forced to co-pilot a scout mission to inspect an anomaly detected in deep space, so they decided it was easier to ignore and justify their rivalry. Complacent of their hatred for each other, their future arguments--over who was a better Captain--would become worse than any of their last.
Hit with the realization of their overconfidence and by their inability to retreat to an easy “solution”, like they believe a "good Captain" would, they had failed to overcome their hindrances and were consumed until they were nothing…Their attention recaptured by energy reading spikes, they realized the scout ship had discovered the Artifact.

 

Throughout March 2022, some of the short stories in the book will be released as standalone ebooks on Kindle Unlimited along with an updated hardcover, paperback and digital version of the second entry in the HaikuPrajna Collection.

These new editions of "SM-SARA", "Hector Blake", "The Artifact" and "The Cannon" will be recollected in "SM-SARA - Poetry and Other Stories"; there are no substantial changes in the script, and changes include a new cover and updated formatting.

When the second edition of SM-SARA is released, the first edition will be delisted; I believe KDP allows ebooks to be updated, so Kindle readers should be able to enjoy these updates for free, however new physical readers should consider these changes before purchase, and current physical owners are encouraged to get in contact so we can discuss an arrangement.

Thank you for reading; today marked a special day in the history of HaikuPrajna, so I really appreciate all of you out there who have taken the time to see what's being written; last month, we broke both one thousand page views for February and ten thousand lifetime views. Thank you a hundred times over.

Until next time,

Allen W. McLean

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