His entry begins:
I aspire to write action-adventure stories that have both humor and heart. I therefore aspire to read such stories whenever I can find them.About They Promised Me The Gun Wasn't Loaded, from the publisher:
So I’ve been reading the Murderbot novellas by Martha Wells. There are four of them: All Systems Red, Artificial Conditions, Rogue Protocol, and Exit Strategy. They’re science fiction, taking place several centuries from now when humans are spread across the stars. The hero is Murderbot—a security unit, part machine, part organic, which has hacked its control chip so that it no longer has to obey human commands.
Despite its name, Murderbot doesn’t want to kill people. It just wants to...[read on]
Only days have passed since a freak accident granted four college students superhuman powers. Now Jools and her friends (who haven’tVisit James Alan Gardner's website.even picked out a name for their superhero team yet) get caught up in the hunt for a Mad Genius’s misplaced super-weapon.
But when Jools falls in with a modern-day Robin Hood and his band of super-powered Merry Men, she finds it hard to sort out the Good Guys from the Bad Guys—and to figure out which side she truly belongs on.
Especially since nobody knows exactly what the Gun does....
The Page 69 Test: They Promised Me The Gun Wasn't Loaded.
Writers Read: James Alan Gardner.
--Marshal Zeringue
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