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

Torn in Twain

Sam Clemens wrote well but lost interest in many of his stories before finishing them. “A Ghost’s Story” is a good example. This led to strong openings, silly middles, and tacked-on endings. When interest stayed strong throughout, he produced masterpieces.  … Continue reading

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Stealing the Virgin Frescoes of Innocent Mirth From the Temple of Universal Corruption

Too much of science ends up having been debunkery, meaning plausible explanations without merit once actual research is allowed, once actual evidence is considered, once open discourse is permitted. Megalithic structures such as those of Ancient Egypt, with impossibly precise … Continue reading

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Fear Is Our Fire

Freud said sex is the strongest human drive but I think it’s fear. Do people lost in wilderness or exploring haunted places encounter sexy things? Do they experience waves of urgent sexual need? No, they almost always experience fear.  Fear … Continue reading

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Books, Music, Atoms, Electrons, & You

I don’t like publishing at ALL and I think there’s room for a total revamp. Thing is, getting product to customer. This requires defining product. As cited in Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte, it’s a matter of atoms versus electrons.  … Continue reading

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An Alert To All Morlocks About the Eloi

An Excerpt from a Novel of Realistic Horror by Art Wester — We weren’t aware of being doomed back in the 1980s, although Reagan was telling us.  “It’s morning in America.” That’s what he and the neocons proclaimed then. An … Continue reading

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Human Beings and Those Other Things

Excerpt from a Science Fiction novel of Dystopian Realism by Samael Gyre — China is now creating non-persons. Textbook George Orwell, 1984, tactics. They are expunging media presence and all other references to anyone of whom they disapprove. This means … Continue reading

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Howling About Murder At Full Moon

In the archives at Texas University, a piss-poor place to keep the premier California writer’s papers, is a werewolf novel written by a young John Steinbeck. His executors refuse to let it be seen. Early genre fiction affronts them, apparently, … Continue reading

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One of These Things is Not Like the Other

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Hemingway’s Body Armor

There was no excuse to offer and he offered none for the way he acted at times, the things he said or wrote. Hemingway summed it up once. “When I write I’m an artist. When I’m done writing I’m a … Continue reading

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Brief Discussion of Writing and Life

What has me so stricken is simply that, for my entire childhood I was lied to. In my teen years I realized this and saw through much of it, and everything that’s happened since only confirms the hopeless negatives.  Universal … Continue reading

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