This post is more announcement than blog: The Complete Adventures of Rhesus A. Macaque, Private Investigator, is available on Amazon in Kindle and paperback. Started some time before 2009 as a short story with my co-author Edward Mawyer, Macaque grew; it became more and more serious and also funnier and funnier. It evolved into science fiction, then prophecy. The earliest versions were steeped in the fin de siecle mood with which our century began. The Complete Adventures, fifteen years later, are optimistic instead; and, I sincerely hope, uplifting. The past of those days is gone. We need look for it no more. Even our historians seek it in vain. Instead we have a new past rising rapidly before us, something we will have enjoyed very much at times, replacing all that came before.
The thrifty reader (is there any other kind?), not to mention the critic, might ask if the Complete Adventures merely collects the previously published serial stories and the first small collection. No. The core is entirely new. The previous stories, now in chronological order, have been rewritten around the core, and the result is not a story collection but a novel, despite the misleading Adventures of the title.
The thrifty reader (is there any other kind?), not to mention the critic, might ask if the Complete Adventures merely collects the previously published serial stories and the first small collection. No. The core is entirely new. The previous stories, now in chronological order, have been rewritten around the core, and the result is not a story collection but a novel, despite the misleading Adventures of the title.
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