I don’t know how, but they found me.

Doc Brown, Back to the Future

My name’s Jeremy and I write fantasy and also science fiction that’s light on the science. That may not be your cup of electrons. But if it is, great! I focus on comedy and adventure. Stuff like Buck Rogers, The Princess Bride, or on a really good day, Red Dwarf.

Why am I like this?

It all started when I was abducted by aliens in 1987. Of course, I really wasn’t but I did see Princess Bride in the theater and I thought it was the funniest thing I ever did see. The book, by William Goldman is ever more funnier.

I’ve always liked that sort of thing and back in the 1990s when I found Red Dwarf I was pretty sure I wanted to be on a show like that. I even went to school to be an actor. I did that for 25 years, but I also wrote. Mostly short plays.

So, what’s my style, anyway?

My fiction is a lot like a screenplay. I prefer snappy, witty dialogue over facts and figures. Characters are paramount to flowery description. I leave the scenery to Saint Bob Ross. And if you do too, you should definitely read my stuff.

My adventure catalogue, thus far.

Clark Galaxy and the Graveyard of Ships. (short story.) Great intro to my stuff!
Clark Galaxy on the Marauder’s Moon. (novel) If you like Graveyard you’ll love this one.
Niles Gilcrest, Man of England. (novel) Indiana Jones meets Princess Bride but more washed up.

I’ve written a lot of flash fiction, too. You can find it over at http://prosefornothing.wordpress.com

Where can you buy my books?

I’m not published exactly. Not yet, anyway. But that’s where I hope this blog comes in. Join me on the journey from “Jeremy Who?” to “Do you have the latest Jeremy January novel?”

Thanks,

Author in Waiting, Jeremy

I read a lot of fiction but two of my favorites are Portal Fantasy and Adventure Sci-Fi:

WHAT IS PORTAL FANTASY?

I’m so glad you asked. In portal fantasy, a person is transported from one world to another by some sort of magic, usually (but not always!) through a specific place or object such as a wardrobe, rabbit hole, or mirror. Most often, a child or children travel from our world to another, magical world…but sometimes the travel is between dimensions, sometimes the traveler(s) are adults, and sometimes time travel looks a lot like portal fantasy. I have used a fairly broad definition of portal fantasy here, and divided portal fantasy books roughly by age range as well as including a few classic titles to help you get an idea of what we’re talking about when we say must-read portal fantasy.

From BookRiot https://bookriot.com/portal-fantasy-books/

Alice in Wonderland and Gaiman’s Neverwhere are good examples of Portal Fantasy.

Adventure Sci-Fi covers many things but for this blog I mean Sci-Fi pulp like Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon and Lost in Space.

Bonus Genre for Review:

Swashbuckling Adventure. Classics of this genre includes stories like The Princess Bride, Scarlet Pimpernel, Three Musketeers and the Zorro adventures. I’m always looking for swashbuckling adventure stories whether historical, fantastical or set in space.

Please share your favorite in these genres in the comments. Stay tuned.

According to Onesicritus, in those parts of India where there is no shadow, the men attain the height of five cubits and two palms, and their life is prolonged to one hundred and thirty years; they die without any symptoms of old age, and just as if they were in the middle period of life. Pergannes calls the Indians, whose age exceeds one hundred years, by the name of Gymnetæ; but not a few authors style them Macrobii.

Ctesias mentions a tribe of them, known by the name of Pandore, whose locality is in the valleys, and who live to their two-hundredth year; their hair is white in youth, and becomes black in old age. On the other hand, there are some people joining up to the country of the Macrobii, who never live beyond their fortieth year, and their females have children once only during their lives.

This circumstance is also mentioned by Agatharchides, who states, in addition, that they live on locusts, and are very swift of foot. Clitarchus and Megasthenes give these people the name of Mandi, and enumerate as many as three hundred villages which belong to them. Their women are capable of bearing children in the seventh year of their age, and become old at forty.

Artemidorus states that in the island of Taprobane (Ceylon) life is prolonged to an extreme length, while at the same time, the body is exempt from weakness. Among the Calingæ, a nation also of India, the women conceive at five years of age, and do not live beyond their eighth year. In other places again, there are men born with long hairy tails, and of remarkable swiftness of foot; while there are others that have ears so large as to cover the whole body.

“He had all the body of a fish, but below the head of the fish another head, which was that of a man; also the feet of a man, which came out of its fish’s tail. He had a human voice, and its image is preserved to this day.”