A fast-moving fantasy novel, a no-holds-barred novel written on an adult level, about the war on terror. In the city state of Oolong Morblock, where a certain proportion of the people have a natural... More > ability to cause themselves to explode, in effect making them potential suicide bombers, Ibrahim Chess tries to find the middle road: to steer a course of moderation and sanity in a world which is going mad, and where the civil peace is threatened by the increasingly intolerant fanaticism of the conflict between the minority group to which Ibrahim belongs, the astrals, and the city state's dominant group, the norms.
Note: this book contains some disturbing scenes. If you do not find something in this book to disturb you then you are a seriously disturbed person.
Are you a person of exquisite good taste? Then, sorry, but you are disqualified as a reader. This book pretty much takes the attitude that boundaries (especially boundaries of taste) are there to be breached. You have been warned!< Less
This is a wide-ranging collection of modern free verse poems by the author of the fantasy series "Chronicles of an Age of Darkness." The 141 poems touch on topics as diverse and various as... More > school life, city life, nature, war, death, cancer, pregnancy, breastfeeding and atomic war. Highlights of the collection include a praise poem for Saddam Hussein called "Saddam is Guilty," and "Lumberjacked Cities", about the slaughter of the civilian populations of Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.< Less
In turbulent times, young lawyer Atlanta survives an attack by a golem and decides to deal with her foe, Vignis Vo Gorkindachina. Her decision is to seek to destroy him through the law, by seeking... More > his banishment. In this novel, Atlanta, full of ambition, tests her will and her ability against the world in which she lives. Set in Chalakanesia, a land which straddles the metapsychic faultline, with consequences ranging from the quirky to the terrifying. Not your average everyday alternative reality!< Less
A murder mystery with fantasy elements set in the land of Nizon, where people eat with scissors rather than with chopsticks. Fantasy in a modern environment complete with computers and cellphones.... More > Business manager Ken Udamana, a husband and a father of two, believes that someone is planning to murder him and takes a shot at find out who. This novel contains some violence and touches on the subject of an adulterous relationship.< Less
A selection of assorted writings by Hugh Walter Gilbert Cook including poems, stories and blog entries. To a large extent, this is a book of random writings, a book for dipping into rather than to... More > read as a single chunk. The text is divided loosely into seven parts, these being ISLAM, CANCER BLOG, HOW TO WRITE, STORIES, POEMS, DEATH POEMS and WRAPPING UP MY LIFE.< Less
Buy for US $5 as a PDF download readable with Adobe Reader (free from adobe.com) or buy as a paperback book. GENGHIS LOTUS POETRY COLLECTION is a book of 141 poems by Hugh Cook of zenvirus.com,... More > including short poems, long poems, school poems, city poems, nature poems, cancer poems, death poems and assorted other poems.< Less
This brain cancer memoir is about CNS lymphoma, a cancer of the central nervous system, the brain and the spinal cord. To be technical, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the large B-cell variety. This book... More > is available for purchase here as a US $5 PDF download, a Portable Document Format file readable with Adobe Reader (formerly known as Acrobat Reader) available for free from adobe.com. The full text can be read for free online at cancer-patient.sushilotus.com/cancer-patient/cancer-patient.html and a follow-up blog dealing with survivorhood issues is at cancer-blog.sushilotus.com/cancer-blog/cancer-blog.html. Cancer poems relating to this eperience are online at cancer-poems.genghislotus.com.< Less
This massive novel of 57 chapters and about 250,000 words is the story of a barbarian named Guest Gulkan. It is the tenth and final book of the CHRONICLES OF AN AGE OF DARKNESS series but can be... More > read as an independent stand-alone novel without any knowledge of any ot the other books in the series being required.< Less
Togura Poulaan, a questing hero whether he liked it or not, is precipitated into a series of adventures in a world which includes dragons, sea serpents, war, wild tribes and the wizard Hostaja... More > Sken-Pitilkin, lord of the island of Drum. A fast-paced fantasy novel published in the USA as two volumes, THE QUESTING HERO and THE HERO'S RETURN.< Less
ARC OF LIGHT is a collection of sixty poems on various subjects, including the world of nature (a river, a waterfall, the surf), the alienation of city life, military training, the Trojan War, the... More > Cold War and the Iraq War. Poems range from a lighthearted piece on levitational hedgehogs to a deeply pondered but unconventional poem on the atomic bombing of the city of Nagasaki. The collection concludes with some poems about cancer and survivorhood.< Less
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