F. P. Dorchak

Speculative Fiction Author

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We’re All Gonna Die a Hot and Sweaty Death…

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So, you think you’re a fast runner? Can kick Olympic ass?

Then run…run for your lives! The rest of us will just curl up in a blubbering ball of fear in a dark, dank corner somewhere and await our fate.

We’re all gonna die a hot and sweaty death.

Terminators (see, they are real–Wiki has a page on them!) are among us and Skynet is falling.

It won’t be long now….

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Well, about time! Set those DVRs (though the Me-Tv shows a start time of 3 p.m.)! It starts today, September 9th, though some providers (I think just satellite providers?) don’t carry Me-TV!

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Let’s Kindle a Fire in HD

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http://youtu.be/VYi1jZXz9Kg

OK.

I’ve been on the fence about getting any kind of a tablet. Any kind. Had “nice little discussions” with info geeks and you name it. But, even I’m starting to get interested in these things…especially the smaller (7 inch or so) versions. They are great information platforms.

The Kindle Fire HD.

Check out this video—sure, it’s over an hour (but you can drag faster through the timeline), so run it in the background while doing other things, but this thing—if it delivers—sounds really cool. I don’t have a smartphone, but this thing could be my mitigator…accessing e-mail and keeping more “live” on what social media I belong to, making me more accessible to post comments and timely responses to my agent and other writerly needs without paying for the data coverages that rape smartphone users (really, does all of Humanity need to pay such outlandish rates when nearly every human being has a smartphone?!). Were I to own one of these things it has exactly what I’m looking for, and at a rather nice price.

According to Mr. Bezos, with the Kindle Fire HD (7-inch model to ship September 14th, 8.9 inch November 20th), they wanted to create the best tablet at any price. They want to be about services, not hardware. They make money when people use their platforms, not when they buy them and leave in the drawer somewhere.

Many think Amazon the enemy. I’m not convinced they are. And I find this new tablet of theirs quite intriguing, better than nearly every other one I’ve looked into, including the iPad (did I just write that out loud?). For a while I was thinking an iPad the best platform (click here for a comparison link)—better if they came out with a 7-inch model, but so far, I’m really liking what I’m seeing in this Kindle Fire HD.

And, for me to even take the time to post about this, scares even me, but that’s how impressed I am by this thing (at least on paper).

It’s smokin.

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Picky Reader? Guess I am….

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books (Photo credit: brody4)

I used to think I was an “easy reader,” in that I’d read pretty much anything that interested me…but, no sooner had I written that when I began to doubt my words.

I think I’ve grown rather…picky.

I’ve found that though many of these works might even be quite well-written, I no longer seem to be able to spend the time reading some of it.

Life has gotten so busy, but, perhaps more importantly, it seems as if my attention span has greatly waned to much of the fiction out there. I used to read a lot of fiction in my earlier years, but, as an adult, my tastes appear to have gravitated more toward nonfiction, certainly in no small part because of my research reading. However, over the last couple years, I’ve made a conscious effort to read more fiction. What I’ve found is that there simply isn’t much out there that interests me, even in my once favorite standbys of supernatural (more etherial and psychological than gore) and “the weird” (like Kevin Brockmeier’s The Brief History of the Dead—loved this book!) I read beyond those genres, but those are my favorites.

And some of these works I truncate are quite well-written.

I’ve tried to categorize it, and it might be as simple as “Life is Short—Play Hard,” and that if something loses me, and goes in a direction I simply am not a fan of (drug use is a huge #1 pet peeve of mine; hate that many things seem to gravitate in that direction, and hate the gratuitous over use of sex that cheapens the act itself; I can get past minor uses of both, but don’t like their continuous employment), I’ll give an additional chapter or two, try to keep on reading, and if not able to be re-drawn back into the world—leave it.  There are just too many other books out there to be read, and so many others things that beg my attention than when I was a teenager.

And, in a way, this hurts.

See, I’m a really loyal guy, and if I begin something, that loyalty behooves me to want to finish it.

I mean, if it interested me in the first place to pick it up and start reading it, I used to think, I should at least finish it.

Sigh. That, I’m afraid to say…is no longer the case.

I will continue to check out fiction, and give it my best shot, but I no longer have the inclination to continue reading books just because I bought and started reading them, when—for whatever reason—they’ve lost me or go somewhere I just don’t wanna go.

Life is short, and gets shorter with every moment.

So, to everyone out there trying to get and keep me as a reader, I applaud you for doing something I haven’t yet been able to master on a mass level, and I acknowledge your skills, but I mean you no disrespect when I have to leave your work. Others may love and gobble up your words, but I may not be one of them. Hey, maybe my tastes will again change.

And don’t get me wrong—I know perfectly well turnabout is fair play.

So, picky reader?

Apparently.

In Memoriam to Jane Roberts (May 8, 1929 – September 5, 1984)

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Jane Roberts
Jane Roberts, 1929 – 1984 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Today marks the 28th anniversary of the death of Jane Roberts, who, along with Rob Butts, compiled the Seth material. I didn’t personally know Jane, though had written to her when I was a kid (and, well, read most of her work). I did know her husband (he had responded to my youthful letters), and we’d corresponded for many years, until his death in 2008.

Here’s to remembering Jane and her work!

  • Roberts, Jane (1956). The Red Wagon, short story. Publisher: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December edition.
  • Roberts, Jane (1957). The Canvas Pyramid, short story. Publisher: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March edition.
  • Roberts, Jane (1957). First Communion, short story. Publisher: First Communion Fantastic Universe, March edition.
  • Roberts, Jane (1957). The Chestnut Beads, novella, (Bundu series). Publisher: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October edition.
  • Roberts, Jane (1958). The Bundu, novella, (Bundu series). Publisher: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March edition.
  • Roberts, Jane (1958). A Demon at Devotions, short story. Publisher: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September edition.
  • Roberts, Jane (1959). Nightmare, short story. Publisher: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April edition.
  • Roberts, Jane (1959). Impasse , short story. Publisher: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July edition.
  • Roberts, Jane (1963). The Rebellers, novel. Publisher: Ace Books.
  • Roberts, Jane (1964). Three Times Around , short story. Publisher: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May edition.
  • Roberts, Jane (1966). How To Develop Your ESP Power. Publisher: Federick Fell. (Later retitled and reprinted as The Coming of Seth.) ISBN 0-8119-0379-6.
  • Roberts, Jane (1970). The Seth Material. Reprinted, 2001 by New Awareness Network. ISBN 978-0-9711198-0-2 .
  • Roberts, Jane and Robert F. Butts (1972). Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul. Reprinted 1994 by Amber-Allen Publishing. ISBN 1-878424-07-6.
  • Roberts, Jane (1974). The Nature of Personal Reality. Prentice-Hall. Reprinted 1994, Amber-Allen Publishing. ISBN 1-878424-06-8.
  • Roberts, Jane (1975). Adventures in Consciousness: An Introduction to Aspect Psychology. Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0-13-013953-X.
  • Roberts, Jane (1975). Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time. Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0-13-208538-0. Poetry.
  • Roberts, Jane (1976). Psychic Politics: An Aspect Psychology Book. Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0-13-731752-2.
  • Roberts, Jane (1977). The “Unknown” Reality Vol. 1. Prentice-Hall. Reprinted 1997, Amber-Allen Publishing. ISBN 1-878424-25-4.
  • Roberts, Jane (1979). The “Unknown” Reality Vol. 2. Prentice-Hall. Reprinted 1997, Amber-Allen Publishing. ISBN 1-878424-26-2.
  • Roberts, Jane (1977). The World View of Paul Cezanne: A Psychic Interpretation. ISBN 0-13-968859-5.
  • Roberts, Jane (1978). The Afterdeath Journal of An American Philosopher: The World View of William James. Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0-13-018515-9.
  • Roberts, Jane (1979). Emir’s Education in the Proper Use of Magical Powers. Prentice-Hall. ISBN 1-57174-142-9. Children’s literature.
  • Roberts, Jane (1979). The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression. Prentice-Hall. Reprinted 1996, Amber-Allen Publishing. ISBN 1-878424-22-X.
  • Roberts, Jane (1981). The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events. Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0134572599. Reprinted 1994, Amber-Allen Publishing, ISBN 1-878424-21-1.
  • Roberts, Jane (1995). The Oversoul Seven Trilogy. Amber-Allen Publishing. ISBN 1-878424-17-3. Edition: Paperback; May 1, 1995 (originally published as three separate books: The Education of Oversoul 7 (1973); The Further Education of Oversoul Seven (1979); Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time (1984).
  • Roberts, Jane (1981). The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto. Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0-01-335749-2. Reprinted 2000, Moment Point Press. ISBN 0-9661327-5-0.
  • Roberts, Jane (1982). If We Live Again, Or, Public Magic and Private Love. Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0-13-450619-7. Poetry.
  • Roberts, Jane (1986). Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment. Prentice-Hall, two volumes, ISBN 0-13-219452-X and ISBN 0-13-219460-0.
  • (1993). A Seth Reader. Vernal Equinox Press. Compendium edited by Richard Roberts. ISBN 0-942380-15-0.
  • Roberts, Jane (1995). The Magical Approach : Seth Speaks About the Art of Creative Living. Amber-Allen Publishing. ISBN 1-878424-09-2.
  • Roberts, Jane (1997). The Way Toward Health: A Seth. Robert F. Butts (Foreword), Amber-Allen Publishing. ISBN 187842430.
  • Roberts, Jane (2006). The World View of Rembrandt. New Awareness Network. ISBN 0-9768978-2-2.
  • Roberts, Jane (1997 and after). The Early Sessions (Sessions 1 through 510 of the Seth Material). New Awareness Network. Edited by Robert Butts. Nine volumes. ISBN 0-9652855-0-2.
  • Roberts, Jane (2003). The Personal Sessions. New Awareness Network. Deleted session material. Seven volumes. ISBN 0-9711198-4-8.
  • Roberts. Jane. The Early Class Sessions. New Awareness Network. Two volumes.

Thanks to Wikipedia for a listing of Jane’s work (I have not cross-checked all references, so pardon for any omissions).