Author Archives: Gene Stewart

About Gene Stewart

Born 7 Feb 1958 Altoona, PA, USA Married 1980 Three sons, grown Have lived in Japan, Germany, all over US Currently in Nebraska I write, paint, play guitar Read widely Wide taste in music, movies Wide range of interests Hate god yap Humanist, Rationalist, Fortean Love the eerie

Review of The Third Bullet by Stephen Hunter

The Third Bullet by Stephen Hunter Simon & Schuster, 2013, hc ISBN: 978-1-4516-4020-5 485pp, map on endpapers A Review by Gene Stewart This is a Bob Lee Swagger novel. That’s the lead character. He smacks of Mary Sue, along the … Continue reading

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Review of I, Ripper by Stephen Hunter

  I, Ripper by Stephen Hunter Simon & Schuster, 2015 1st ed. hc, inc. 4pp bibliography ISBN: 978-1-4767-6485-6 A Review by Gene Stewart A novel about Jack the Ripper, researched in detail and presented in the voices of 1888 contemporaries, … Continue reading

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Stranded Off Earth

Exactly: 100 words “Shivers That Linger” When you’re ten you don’t think you might die. Life is eternal, like midwest summer, and everything’s interesting. So my friend and I found a Masterlock, layers of metal, no key. “We can smash … Continue reading

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Droodish Memories

Being more detailed, complicated, and serious than necessary for a thriller, The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl is a work of scholarly obsession.  How much fiction is flensed in he carefully details in the end notes and the clever interview … Continue reading

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RAT STEW: TV, and HistorLatelyy – What’s Been In My Head

A few days ago in Omaha, near where I live, a man was killed by gunfire at a park. He was driving and tried to escape the bullets by going cross-country, breaking through a split-rail fence onto a grassy field. … Continue reading

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Random Notes of Passing Interest

Father’s Day this year falls on Litha. /// SOM 1-01, Special Operations Manual, is the one dealing with retrieving downed UFO’s and crew. It was mailed on film to UFO and aviation writer Don Berliner in 1994 after he’d attended … Continue reading

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Our Occulted History by Jim Marrs, A Review

Our Occulted History: Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens? by Jim Marrs Wm. Morrow, 2013, hardcover 382pp, notes, index A Review by Gene Stewart Jim Marrs? Aliens? Must be some kind of joke. He wrote Crossfire, which, blended with … Continue reading

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Bird Box by Josh Malerman, A Review

Bird Box by Josh Malarian Ecco, 2014, 1st edition, hardcover Special cut-out dust jacket Special cover, 262pp A Review by Gene Stewart 
 Malorie and her two kids, a boy and a girl, are left alone by a deeply unnerving … Continue reading

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The Ancient Alien Question by Philip Coppens, A Review

The Ancient Alien Question: A New Inquiry Into the Existence, Evidence, and Influence of Ancient Visitors by Philip Coppens Career Press/New Page, 2012 320pp, 8p color insert, b&w illos throughout, notes, bibliography, index A Review by Gene Stewart Featuring an … Continue reading

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Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon, A Review

Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon Penguin, 2014, 477pp, trade paperback A Review by Gene Stewart This is the single best book about New York City and about 9/11, just as Pynchon is the best living writer. In it, NYC is … Continue reading

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