tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37293228318817683542024-02-18T21:07:43.680-08:00M.Christian's TechnoroticaA celebration of the technology-inspired eroticism and fiction of renown author M.Christianmchristianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11887406428164757014noreply@blogger.comBlogger593125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729322831881768354.post-6560192784932465372019-01-11T11:37:00.000-08:002019-01-11T11:37:47.627-08:00Publisher's Weekly On HARD DRIVEWhile not exactly a rave, do check out <a href="https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-929670-46-8">Publisher's Weekly review</a> of <b><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FGVQB7B/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_S.ooCb35YKQJR">Hard Drive: The Best SciFi Erotica Of M.Christian!</a></i></b><br />
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<i>Futurist Christian selects a brave but uneven mix of unsettling high-tech erotic stories collected from his works of the last two decades. Christian is at his best playing with images of submission to the allure of urban dystopias, tweaking the imagination with scenes that are all the more arousing for being disturbing, as in the necrophiliac “Everything but the Smell of Lilies.” Consent and nonconsent are juxtaposed to similar effect in “Hack Work.” Sex robot stories—“The Bachelor Machine,” in which a man visits a disintegrating pleasure house, and “State,” in which a human courtesan has been remodeled to resemble a high-end AI executing an age-play fantasy—bring out futuristic nostalgia and a sad loneliness behind the idea of perfected, commodified pleasure, while also effectively evoking the sexual power of machines that are one uncanny step away from being fully human. Despite the author’s asserted hope for “a tomorrow full of acceptance, self-determination [and] mindfulness,” stories that point toward a future in which aliens or sentient AIs want to love humans, such as “The Subsequent State” and “A Kiss Goodnight,” are as creepy as those steeped in malevolent compulsion, and much less arousing. Futuristic erotica fans will dog-ear their favorite stories, but some of the other tales don’t even merit a read through to the en</i>d.</blockquote>
mchristianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11887406428164757014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729322831881768354.post-91295220306611323202018-10-21T09:48:00.001-07:002018-10-21T09:48:23.850-07:00An Important Cause - And A Touching Review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://reviewsbyamoslassen.com/">Amos Lassen</a> is more than a tremendously skilled reviewer - who I am truly blessed that has enjoyed my work - but one of the sweetest, kindest people I have ever known ... and he needs your help.</div>
<br />Please follow <b><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/bch2y-can-you-help?">this link to his GoFundMe page</a></b> and give as much as you can so that this truly special person can live the life he deserves.<br /><br />Here is the information on his situation:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>My dear friend Amos Lassen, a powerful supporter of authors and filmmakers for years, needs our help. </i></blockquote>
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<i>Over many years, Amos has been engaged in an act of love—that is, love of the art of writing and filmmaking, and love of those who produce it. </i></blockquote>
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<i>Without compensation of any kind, he has published more than 15,000 reviews of books and films in support of civil and human rights for the LGBTQ+ community, proving himself to be a powerful advocate for these individuals and for the art that portrays their lives in a realistic and empathetic way. </i></blockquote>
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<i>Now, he needs us to help him keep this act of love alive.Amos is in serious financial trouble. </i></blockquote>
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<i>After being forced to give up his cherished dog by a mercenary landlord, Amos was priced out of his Brookline apartment in December of 2017 by rent increases. Since then he has been essentially homeless, his personal possessions packed away in storage. Air B&B's and the YMCA are not the best places to call home, and yet this is the choice Amos has had to make. </i></blockquote>
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<i>Those of us who don't struggle financially don't always realize everything that means. For Amos, it means he can't maintain his website, where he has posted insightful book reviews for many years. It means he can't replace the computer he needs in order to keep helping others. It means he is living in a room at the YMCA and struggles to pay for storing the possessions he had to remove from his apartment a year ago. </i></blockquote>
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<i>We can fix this. We can help Amos keep helping others. Here are some ways: </i></blockquote>
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<i>1. If you can contribute financially, please do. Any amount is appreciated. </i></blockquote>
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<i>3. If you have ideas regarding living arrangements better than the YMCA, or about other ways we might help Amos, please email therobinreardon@gmail. </i></blockquote>
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<i>And if you know Amos, please don't contact him directly about this effort; he doesn't know I'm doing it. </i></blockquote>
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And here is <a href="http://reviewsbyamoslassen.com/?p=66711">his touching review of my new book</a>, <i><a href="http://a.co/d/j4I99yN">Hard Drive: The Best Sci-Fi Erotica Of M.Christian</a></i> ... <b><i>you're the best, Amos!</i></b><br />
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<br /><i>I have been reading and reviewing M. Christian for about twelve years now and regard him as one of our finest erotica writers today. His importance is in how he sees our sexuality as that which as far as they go and he does this once again in his new collection of cyberpunk adventure, “Hard Drive”. His sexual stories are outrageous and therefore great fun. This collection contains a story that M.Christian selected these stories from other erotica collections and not only are they celebrations of sexually explicit cyberpunk science fiction, they are also examples of what good writing is. We go to the “outer reaches of BDSM, gay, lesbian, and straight sexuality in the near and far future: worlds of brilliant imagination, relentless passion, and supernova heat!” It is really exciting to have the stories that he considers his best all on one volume. Now I go through the volume and say something about each story but that takes away from the element of surprise you get when you read.<br /><br />Christian is very frank in his descriptions of intimacy and he has the ability to draw characters with whom we can easily associate because they are like us—they are searching for what they do not have sexually.<br /><br />Physical and sexual pleasures are part of our lives even though they are transitory and perhaps that is why some of the stories here may indeed shock you. I am not sure why we are shocked when we are daily being bombarded by new technologies. The anthology is made up of seventeen stories and I can honestly say that I do not know when last I had such a good time reading before this. A word of warning—- I became so engrossed in what I read that I made the mistake of starting in the afternoon and then staying up all night reading.</i><div>
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mchristianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11887406428164757014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729322831881768354.post-70074044397477914452018-09-07T14:27:00.000-07:002018-09-07T14:27:20.811-07:00"Subsequent State" On Mondo2000<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is <b><i>BEYOND</i></b> cool! The fantastic - and justifiably well-respected - <a href="http://www.mondo2000.com/2018/09/07/the-subsequent-state/">Mondo2000 just posted my story, "The Subsequent State,"</a> from my new book: <b><i><a href="http://a.co/d/iHxx4wC">Hard Drive: The Best Scifi Erotica Of M.Christian!</a></i></b><br />
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<br />mchristianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11887406428164757014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729322831881768354.post-31811281710677018682018-08-22T11:52:00.002-07:002018-08-22T11:52:44.183-07:00A Wonderful Contest: Win A Copy of HARD DRIVEThis is <b><i>really</i></b> fantastic: the great folks at <a href="http://tickle.life/">Tickle.life</a> have put together a contest to be judged by<br />
little ol' me - and the prize is a copy of my new book, <b><i><a href="http://a.co/d/9s9kPHo">Hard Drive: The Best SciFi Erotica Of M.Christian!</a></i></b><div>
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mchristianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11887406428164757014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729322831881768354.post-13063293081764152552018-08-02T09:03:00.001-07:002018-08-02T09:03:35.971-07:00Hard Drive: Thanks so much, Lisabet!This is beyond special: check out this very-lovely write-up my pal <a href="https://lisabetsarai.blogspot.com/">Lisabet Sarai</a> posted about my new book, <b><i><a href="http://a.co/c6OOj7p">Hard Drive: The Best Sci-Fi Erotica</a></i></b> of M.Christian!<br />
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Here's an except - <a href="https://lisabetsarai.blogspot.com/2018/07/an-arousing-look-into-future-hard-drive.html?zx=bf0adba12f6d1341">for the full thing just click here</a>.<br />
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<i>When I heard about the release of Hard Drive, M. Christian’s newly released collection of science fiction erotica, I offered to put up a post for him on my blog. However, I soon realized it would be disingenuous to pretend that he was just another author, that this was just another bit of social media promotion. I’ve known M.Christian for a long time—at least fifteen years—and I’ve always been a fan of his erotic fiction.<br /><br />No, scratch that. I’m not a “fan”. That implies slavish adoration. I am a discerning and appreciative reader. He’s one of the most imaginative and versatile authors I’ve encountered. He writes everything from horror to romance, sci-fi to stroke. He can create believably erotic scenarios involving characters who are straight, gay, lesbian, and completely unlabeled. Even after all these years, he can still surprise me.<br /><br />We’ve read and reviewed each other’s work over the decades. He has edited my stories for his collections; I’ve done the same for him, including his single author altruistic erotica volume <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Together-Presents-M-Christian-ebook/dp/B00365FIQ2/">Coming Together Presents: M. Christian</a>, which supports Planned Parenthood<br /><br />So I can’t really claim to be objective when it comes to M. Christian. He’s not only a valued colleague but a friend.<br /><br />Still, you should believe me when I tell you this book is a treat. Hard Drive collects the best of his speculative erotica tales, a genre that’s one of both his favorites and my own, published over his long career.</i><div>
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mchristianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11887406428164757014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729322831881768354.post-64389209074509181282018-07-08T09:04:00.001-07:002018-07-08T09:04:31.730-07:00The Sexual Futurism Celebration Continues: Great Review of Finger's Breadth!This is so very, very, VERY cool: check out this lovely review of the audiobook version of my queer erotic sci-fi novel <i><b>Finger's Breadth</b></i> from Gay Book Reviews!<br /><br />You can <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01IU9PGKG">order the audiobook here</a> - and the ebook version is <a href="http://a.co/ePX7fKN">also available on Amazon</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<i><br />I won’t qualify it as horror, but I read not too many horror books to be a judge. There is a touch of romance, suspense, psychological thriller and a social satire. It is kinky and philosophical. Erotic. Terrifying. Fascinating. Disturbing. Intriguing. Haunting.<br /><br />A gay community of San Francisco is terrified, anxious and insecure. A maniac is at large with an eye for mutilation. No one is safe from him. He drugs his victims and cuts off the top of their little fingers. Cops and freelance agents are hunting him but all they have are dead-end leads. The number of gay men with nine and a half fingers grows up and with it a spirit of solidarity. You have still 10 fingers? Maybe you ARE the Cutter?<br /><br />We learn from different men and the way they deal with the fears and handle their lives in these gloomy times. It is like an analogy of a short stories that in some way are connected with each other. But WHO does it and in the first place WHY. Don’t expect a clear statement at the end, don’t hope too early that you get it, and you know what is going on here. Very intriguing.<br /><br />I listened to an audiobook, and I would like particularly to mention an extraordinary writing style that A.A. Ron, the narrator, emphasizes even more.<br /><br />It has an invisible strong rhythm that is SIMPLY impossible not to hear. Very creative and captivating.<br /><br />A.A. Ron did a fantastic job. I have to admit, it was not love from the first tone. His style appeared a bit robotic. But once the story started to unfold, his voice grew on me and I asked myself how I couldn’t have seen it from the very beginning.<br /><br />I’m glad to discover M.Christian, a new interesting writer of erotica genre. My first but for sure not the last book by the author.</i></div>
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<br />I've had a lot of writing gigs over the years but my all-time favorite has to be <a href="https://futureofsex.net/">Future Of Sex</a>! How much of a favorite? Well, check this out I just wrote my 200th ARTICLE for them! Rock and roll!<br /><br />Check out all of my articles here: <a href="https://futureofsex.net/author/m-christian">https://futureofsex.net/author/m-christian</a>. mchristianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11887406428164757014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729322831881768354.post-2400995374338387192018-07-02T15:13:00.000-07:002018-07-02T15:13:47.605-07:00In The Puzzle PalaceCheck it out, folks, my new hobby - a cyberpunk (ish) art blog: <a href="https://in-the-puzzle-palace.tumblr.com/">In the Puzzle Palace</a>! I'm also putting some of my artwork up <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mchristianzobop/?hl=en">on my Instagram as well.</a> <div>
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mchristianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11887406428164757014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729322831881768354.post-49399629250597160492018-06-25T14:21:00.003-07:002018-06-25T14:21:57.068-07:00HARD DRIVE - And The Winner Is ...After asking everyone here on my site as well as with people on <a href="https://mchristianzobop.tumblr.com/">Tumbr</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/MChristianzobop">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mchristianzobop/">Instagram</a>, and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mdot.christian?ref=bookmarks">Facebook</a> the verdict has come in ... and the winner for the cover of my upcoming book, <br /><b><i>HARD DRIVE: The Best Sci-Fi Erotica Of M.Christian</i></b> is...<div>
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mchristianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11887406428164757014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729322831881768354.post-47024537945224070442018-06-08T12:22:00.000-07:002018-06-08T12:22:50.468-07:00Hard Drive - Help Me Pick A Cover!This is flat-out <b><i>AMAZING! </i></b>Frankie Hill at Sizzler Editions has always done fantastic covers but this time ... well, wow and more wows: Frankie has done not just one but THREE staggering covers for my upcoming collection, <b><i>Hard Drive: The Best SciFi Erotica of M.Christian</i></b>.<br />
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<br />mchristianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11887406428164757014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729322831881768354.post-59801189784736103372017-05-19T16:25:00.000-07:002017-05-19T16:25:14.863-07:00FIVE TO THE FUTURE - Only .99 for a limited time!Here's your chance to read the very fun (if I do say so myself) anthology I put together with Ernest Hogan, Emily Devenport, Cynthia Ward, and Arthur Byron Cover - especially as, for a short time, <b><i><a href="http://a.co/8JYcRYx">it is now just 99 cents ... and FREE if you have Amazon Unlimited.</a></i></b><br />
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TOP 100 IN SF ANTHOLOGIES AMAZON KINDLE -5 THRILLING PEEKS INTO THE FUTURE FROM 5 VISIONARY WRITERS!<br /><br />What will tomorrow look like? Here are five speculative answers from top science fiction authors.<br /><br />Another outrageous act of science fiction by self-described “recombocultural Chicano mutant” Ernest Hogan, a soul-touching tale of furry friends and bittersweet affection by Emily Devenport, a neon-highlighted '80s love letter to a classic anime by Cynthia Ward, a multi-dimensionally kaleidoscopic tale of love beyond reality by Arthur Byron Cover, and M.Christian’s standout novelette about the Soviet-era practice of smuggling Western music impressed onto discarded X-rays.<br /><br />The contributors:<br /><br />M.Christian‘s published fiction includes science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers, erotica and even non-fiction. His fantasy and science fiction have appeared in Talebones, Space & Time Magazine, Skull Full of Spurs, Graven Images, Horror Garage, Song of Cthulhu, and other science fantasy publications. The best of his short SF/H/F has been published in the collection Love Without Gun Control. Multiple Hugo and Nebula winner Mike Resnick has hailed M.Christian’s sf as "unique and truly fascinating." In addition to writing, he is a prolific and respected anthologist whose credits include The Mammoth Book of Future Cops and The Mammoth Book of Tales of the Road (with Maxim Jakubowksi), and many more.<br /><br />Arthur Byron Cover is the author of the Nebula-nominee novel Autumn Angels, part of his Great Mystery trilogy, a saga of godlike men—which also includes An East Wind Coming, a novel pitting Sherlock Holmes against Jack the Ripper. His short stories have been widely anthologized, and often selected for The Year’s Best Horror Stories and other collections. He has also written works set in the Buffyverse and in Asimov’s Foundation Universe.<br /><br />Emily Devenport is the author of Shade, Larissa, Scorpianne, EggHeads, The Kronos Condition, GodHeads, Broken Time (which was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award), Belarus, and Enemies. Her newest novels, The Night Shifters and Spirits of Glory, are in ebook form on Amazon, Smashwords, and more. She is currently working on a novel based on her popular novelette, “The Servant.” Her short stories were published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Full Spectrum, The Mammoth Book of Kaiju, Uncanny, Cicada, Science Fiction World, Clarkesworld, and Aboriginal SF, whose readers voted her a Boomerang Award (which turned out to be an actual boomerang).<br /><br />Ernest Hogan is a six-foot tall Aztec leprechaun who was born in East LA back in the Atomic Age. Because he is the author of High Aztech, Smoking Mirror Blues, and Cortez on Jupiter, he is considered to be the Father of Chicano Science Fiction. His short fiction has appeared in Amazing Stories, Analog, Science Fiction Age, and many other publications.<br /><br />Cynthia Ward has published stories in Asimov's Science Fiction, Shattered Prism, Weird Tales, Athena's Daughters (Silence in the Library Publishing), and other anthologies and magazines. Her stories "Norms" and "#rising" made the Tangent Online Recommended Reading List for 2011 and 2014. She edited the anthologies Lost Trails: Forgotten Tales of the Weird West Volumes One and Two for WolfSinger Publications. Her short alternate-history novel, The Adventure of the Incognita Countess, is now available from Aqueduct Press.<br /><br />These prescient and creative minds join forces to offer you a don't-miss anthology of the year!<br />mchristianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11887406428164757014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729322831881768354.post-85288232806218461842017-04-09T15:21:00.002-07:002017-04-09T15:21:44.290-07:00Hollow Pursuits: A Review Of Ghost In The Shell (2017)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">For those unfortunate not to have read or see anything of the original Ghost In The Shell franchise, here’s a quick synopsis of the basics: in the near future when augmentations and enhancements have become commonplace, even to the point of many people having completely artificially bodies (save for their brain) “Major” Motoko Kusanagi is a member of Public Security Section 9: a Japanese anti-terrorist task force specializing in cyber-terrorism. A full-body cyborg, the Major is possibly one of the most kick-ass anime characters out there--and considering how many anime characters to more than their fare share of ass-kicking that’s saying a lot.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">Back to the new film, let’s begin by getting the whitewashed elephant out into the open. When Hollywood is already getting some much deserved flack for consistently casting white actors and actresses in the roles of established non-white characters the decision to put Johansson in Ghost In The Shell was at best foolish at worst completely insulting.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Believe it or not, I actually </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">can</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> screen out the everything that came before 2017’s live action Ghost In The Shell: seeing it without really seeing the manga, the movies, the shows--everything that came before it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">The dialogue is so bad it’s almost a Mystery Science Theater 3000 audition tape. One particular scene makes me wince in retrospect: a conversation among the Section 9 members that seems to drop the painfully outdated term “cyber” a dozen or so times--it’s as as if the screenwriters Jamie Moss, William Wheeler and Ehren Kruger were laughing at the source material.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scarlett Johansson is pretty, but then she always is, but instead of being a supposedly custom-built killing machine having a crisis of identity she instead always in need of a long nap. In what were no doubt supposed to be scenes of intense and meaningful self-discovery I kept expecting her to give out a long, deep </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">yawn</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">Then there’s the direction, and while this isn’t the source of my sadness it’s getting damned close. Practically every seen in the new Ghost In The Shell is a direct copy of a scene from the original animated film, the sequel and even various episodes of the assorted TV series. Like a scene in the new film? I’ll bet you hard currency that it’s either based on or maybe even a complete copy from a previous, and so much better, iteration of Ghost In The Shell. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">You can say lots of things about the the manga, the original film, the sequel, the various TV versions and I’ll pretty much agree with you: slow, impenetrable, tedious, confusing … even pretentious. But one thing you could never say about any of them is that they were stupid.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To put it bluntly: the new live action Ghost In The Shell is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">painfully</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> stupid. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition to the production’s infuriating disregard for concerns about the whitewashing, and a plot that pretty much mocks anyone who expressed it, the film makes practically no sense. From the opening cards to the last line the film is clear that it doesn’t just disrespect it’s audience but thinks it’s too stupid to understand what made every incarnation of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ghost In The Shell</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> so fascinating.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">Instead of exploring--as the other films and such do--what it means to be ‘human’ (especially if the only thing left of you is your brain), dealing with complex and intriguing ideas like the vanishing mediator and a stand alone complex, metaphysics … and even the afterlife, the new Ghost In The Shell has a frothing villain, Cutter (played by Peter Ferdinando), who shoots characters for no reason except to shout at the audience “I’M EVIL.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">To resort to a rather silly, but apt, cooking metaphor: the new film took everything from every version of Ghost In The Shell, put it into a blender, hit frappe, and then pushed it through a strainer. Except, instead of getting the juice of what makes Ghost In The Shell so memorable and magnificent they gave us the nasty pulp.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">Want further evidence? Perhaps one of the most beautiful moments in Mamoru Oshii’s original film, and echoed in his Ghost In The Shell: Innocence, is the opening: the elegant technological ballet that’s the creation of a cyborg. Set to Kenji Kawai supremely beautiful music the scene, to this day, elicits a deep-body shiver of awe.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">To be fair, Mamoru Oshii--director of the two anime films--has come out in favor of the new film. And for those who are total purists I give a gentle reminder that the Japanese love to reinvent their movies and shows--and that every version of Ghost In The Shell has done that, and then some, many times.</span></span></div>
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mchristianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11887406428164757014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729322831881768354.post-82240244904370839712017-03-20T08:47:00.000-07:002017-03-20T08:47:22.175-07:00Pre-Release Book Announcement: Groundbreaking FIVE TO THE FUTURE SciFi AnthologyDigital Parchment Services (distributed by Futures-Past Editions) and M.Christian are pleased to announce the imminent release of a brand new science fiction anthology edited by M.Christian:<b id="docs-internal-guid-3e35361c-ec65-04f0-2422-7eb9503f9bfb" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
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Featuring never-before-published work by Ernest Hogan (Locus Award Finalist), Arthur Byron Cover (Nebula Award Finalist), Emily Devenport (Boomerang Award winner), Cynthia Ward (Asimov’s SF Magazine), and M.Christian (Lambda Award Finalist):<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Extensively published in science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers, and non-fiction, it is in erotica that M.Christian has become an acknowledged master, with more than 400 sales in such anthologies as </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Bisexual Erotica, Best Fetish Erotica</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and in fact too many anthologies, magazines, and sites to name. </span></div>
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the erotic romance </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brushes</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">; the science fiction erotic novel </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; 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Because he is the author of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">High Aztech, Smoking Mirror Blues</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cortez on Jupiter</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, he is considered to be the Father of Chicano Science Fiction, though there hasn’t been any kind of DNA test. His short fiction has appeared in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Amazing Stories</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Analog</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Science Fiction Age</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and many other publications, His story “The Frankenstein Penis,” has been made into student films. He is also an artist and cartoonist. He has been recently been discovered by academia, which may bring about the end of Western Civilization. His “Chicanonautica Manifesto” appeared in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. 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Her stories "Norms" and "#rising" made the Tangent Online Recommended Reading List for 2011 and 2014. She edited the anthologies </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lost Trails: Forgotten Tales of the Weird West</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Volumes One and Two for WolfSinger Publications, and has a pair of anthologies forthcoming in collaboration with Charles G. Waugh, the first science fiction professional she ever met. 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Her short alternate-history novel, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Adventure of the Incognita Countess</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, is now available from Aqueduct Press. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is not working on a screenplay.</span></div>
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mchristianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11887406428164757014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729322831881768354.post-64012018131676629412017-01-07T17:05:00.002-08:002017-01-07T17:05:43.763-08:00Announcing The M.Christian Erotic Science Fiction Collection<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nnju_tFgAs0/T_IxSG_OjKI/AAAAAAAAM_g/zSjzz-ZtD6gAX-pLGWR1glkhBmOaZ7D7QCPcB/s1600/photo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nnju_tFgAs0/T_IxSG_OjKI/AAAAAAAAM_g/zSjzz-ZtD6gAX-pLGWR1glkhBmOaZ7D7QCPcB/s200/photo.JPG" width="138" /></a><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xHLBRE1vyl4/WHGQJzM7HUI/AAAAAAAAPVY/TT_hsMErieUtsbg5oovSBpJOkORid-5iQCLcB/s1600/51tjb7OEptL._SL300_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xHLBRE1vyl4/WHGQJzM7HUI/AAAAAAAAPVY/TT_hsMErieUtsbg5oovSBpJOkORid-5iQCLcB/s200/51tjb7OEptL._SL300_.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since his appearance in the 1994 edition of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best American Erotica</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, M.Christian has proven himself to be the premier erotic chameleon: being able to seamlessly write for practically any genre and orientation, fetish and interest. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">But it is in the field of erotic science fiction that M.Christian has shown his mastery of both: combining a vivid style, haunting and evocative characters, and carefully crafted structures to not just sexually charge the reader he also examines how human sexuality may evolve in the coming decades—or centuries.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For the first time his premier short story collections and novels are now available as not just as ebooks but—through a special arrangement with Wordwooze Publishing—as </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">audiobooks!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bachelor Machine: Science Fiction Erotica </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(with an introduction by Cecilia Tan). </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">The book that established M.Christian as a voice in the genre. Received positive reviews from many, including Locus Online. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Skin Effect: More Science Fiction Erotica</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (with an introduction by Ernest Hogan). </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"A non-stop ride of precise prose and unexpected imagery. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Painted Doll </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is another M. Christian gem; a seamless blend of the erotic with the darkly fantastic. Unpredictable, engaging, and an often startling read."—Marilyn Jaye Lewis, author of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Freak Parade</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ebook (Renaissance E Books/Sizzler Editions): </span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/hzx3xyx" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://tinyurl.com/hzx3xyx</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">Calling M.Christian versatile is a tremendous understatement. Extensively published in science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers, and even non-fiction, it is in erotica that M.Christian has become an acknowledged master, with stories in such anthologies as Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Bisexual Erotica, Best Fetish Erotica, and in fact too many anthologies, magazines, and sites to name. In erotica, M.Christian is known and respected not just for his passion on the page but also his staggering imagination and chameleonic ability to successfully and convincingly write for any and all orientations.</span></span></div>
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<br />mchristianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11887406428164757014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729322831881768354.post-14725082833003968082016-12-04T19:15:00.000-08:002016-12-04T19:16:47.762-08:00Roxy Katt Likes Finger's Breadth!Check out this really touching review of my queer/horror/erotic/SF/thriller <a href="http://a.co/4fIxieK">Finger's Breadth </a>by the one and only <a href="https://roxykatt.wordpress.com/2016/11/20/fingers-breadth-by-m-christian-book-review/">Roxy Katt.</a><br />
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I love noir. I love noir movies. And I was pleasantly surprised by M. Christian’s <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fingers-Breadth-Thriller-Lambda-Finalist-ebook/dp/B01A7PZ24Q/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1480035543&sr=8-1">Finger’s Breadth</a>. Not that I was surprised that it was good, having already read and positively reviewed his Bionic Lover. But I did not think it would be this good. I was surprised to see a complex noir plot so deftly handled. Finger’s Breadth has a great many characters and different story lines in it, and it is difficult to write such a novel without putting the reader off. The risk is that just as one story line gets interesting, another one is picked up and the first line is awkwardly interrupted.<br />
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mchristianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11887406428164757014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729322831881768354.post-17235164439924551342016-08-10T10:57:00.003-07:002016-08-10T10:57:35.323-07:00Boom Baby Reviews Likes Bionic Lover!Check out this very nice review of my cyberpunk-ish lesbian noir novella <a href="https://amzn.com/B01CYT8LUK">Bionic Lover</a> by the fun <a href="http://www.boombabyreviews.com/?p=1881">Boom Baby Reviews</a>:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br /><i>Pell was lost, alone, and lonely―until Arc appeared. Fiery, enigmatic, and with a mesmerizing cybernetic eye, Arc was everything Pell needed, wanted, and most of all, desired.<br /><br />The next time Pell saw Arc the eye wasn’t the only thing artificial about her new lover. And the time after that, and the time after that: each time the passionate and mysterious Arc drifted into her life, Pell saw more and more of her being replaced by refined and precise machinery…and with each departure of her natural body for the artificial, Pell grew more and more terrified.<br /><br />One day, she knew, there’d be nothing left of her lover but the cold, the engineered…the bionic.<br /><br />Pell knew what she had to do…but the end, when it came, was worse than she ever could have imagined.</i><br />Review: <div>
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This was a novella that had a strong feeling of allegory to it, which by the end had be wondering if it was a metaphor for the obvious or something deeper. It reminded me of Tanith Lee and the Secret Books of Paradys, which is a compliment.<br /><br />At the start, it felt like the author was a little too in love with his own verbal artistry but it did fall into a rhythmic flow. The world building was fascinating, and somehow the points where there was a lack of world building just seemed to bolster the intrigue rather than hinder it.<br /><br />In the end it was intriguing, although I don’t know if I could call it a romance. It balanced on the edge of erotic and grotesque, with sex scenes that were both interesting and discomfiting. I give it a 3.5 Fireballs.</div>
mchristianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11887406428164757014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729322831881768354.post-65079037737930064792016-07-02T09:30:00.003-07:002016-07-02T09:36:47.579-07:00Oort Cloud Reviews Likes Bionic Lover!Check out this very touching review of my Bionic Lover cyberpunk-ish lesbian romance, <b><i><a href="https://amzn.com/B01CYT8LUK">Bionic Lover</a></i></b>, by <a href="https://oortcloudreviews.wordpress.com/2016/07/02/bionic-lover/">Oort Cloud Reviews</a><br />
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Christian’s Bionic Lover sucked me right into the narrative with the very first paragraph. A very well thought out introduction to the events that were to follow. Since the subtitle had introduced it as an Erotic Lesbian Romance, I had a good idea about some of the things to follow and yet I just couldn’t quite stop. The language is so rich and captivating that at times, I was more enamored of the words than their actual meaning and that is not an easy thing to do. The sentences followed each other like pearls on a string and some of what they were saying reminded me of friends and long gone events, in other countries and other times.<br />
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I am a hetero male, and like most of the ones sharing my demographic, fascinated with lesbian encounters. Holding my breath, I kept waiting for that double female scent to emanate from my screen and envelope me. When it did occur, I was not disappointed. The strength of the encounter and the way it was depicted got me very excited. It was the middle of the afternoon and I was not alone in the house, so there was nothing I could about it. I thought that perhaps I should continue reading later on, but I just had to find out what was coming up next.<br />
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When it did happen again, I was not disappointed. It was tender, passionate, rough and dirty somehow. Without giving out too many details, I can say that besides being a story that will arouse your inner passions, it is also a story of obsession and temporal encounters. So far, so good, I will soldier on for a while though I may not have enough time to finish it all in one reading, which might be for the best. I will continue later into the night, a time when I might find myself awake when all are asleep. Things might happen.<br />
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The previously only hinted at environment is finally making an appearance. It put me in mind of a San Francisco that would have been at home in Bernard Wolfe’s Limbo just as much as in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. The sexual encounter that was bound to come reflects that dystopial imagery. It is hard, painful and impersonal. We are looking into an abyss that we hope will never open up widely enough to swallow our heroines. Mercifully, we are granted an almost idyllic interlude.<br />
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There is a part that does a great job explaining a lesbian’s thoughts about a hetero male. It contains some sexual connotations, but they are very baffling and confusing (at least to their thinker.) For a second time, fingers find their way into assholes. Not necessarily a surprise, that paints a very arousing picture. I guess it is the socially unacceptable morality and presumed wrongness of it.<br />
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<br />This was a surprising read for me. It was a steampunkish alternate modern reality. It was a little difficult at the beginning to get into. Oh my, the characters though. So well written. This universe that M. has created is simply amazing. Literally a starving artist (Pell) and a woman selling parts of her body to survive (Arc). There is this looming war in Central America and no one wants to go. You end up there through a mysterious court system.<br /><br />I want to talk about Arc. I could clearly hear her mechanical eye clicking in my head. Such vivid imagery. The author creates this beautiful image in words. M. shows you her eye, he doesn’t just tell you about it. I can’t spoil it other than to say that the selling of yourself in this way is a new twist on an old tale. Pell, the lovely starving artist, out for a one night stand. Pell makes me think of one on the whimsical faerie girls without the money. She is poor, living on what we call government benefits. M. paints this world so well.<br /><br />I didn’t think I was emotionally invested in the story. I was entertained that is for sure, but I wasn’t invested, so I thought. As the story moved on I realized that I hurt for Pell. She was attached, dare I say in love with Arc. This was a story that ended as it began, simply and elegantly. I wandered to thoughts of those lovers I had in the past that gave me that feeling of attachment. It was a heady to be reading this and thinking of those who left me and those I left. All ending as they began. Simply and cleanly with a spark of hope for the future.<br /><br />If you are looking for something with a mechanical twist, this is your ticket.<div class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: brandon-grot-w01-light, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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A: I’ve always loved science fiction … and erotica has become, shall we say, near and dear to my heart. So when I heard that The Mammoth Book Of Short Erotic Novels anthology back in 2011 was looking for contributors I decided to put two of my favorite things together. I was fortunate that the editors, Mike Hemmingson and Maxim Jakubowski liked my story — then called “Speaking Parts.”<br />
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A: To be honest I can’t remember. Not to brag but I’ve written quite a few things before and since. But, going by my usual rate of about 2,000 words a day I’d say I had it done in a week or so. I do remember enjoying the process quite a bit. I mean, I like whatever I write but this was one of those ‘magic’ stories that just seemed to flow out. Very special, that…<br />
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A: I rarely base my characters on real people — though every now and again I try my hand at it just to mix things up. For Bionic Lover I felt I was creating a mixture of many people I’ve known, both real and fictional. I’ve never been a fan, both writing or reading, of one-note characters so I try to give whoever I create a sense of depth — I just hope that people reading what I do will enjoy the end result.<br />
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A: Nope! I don’t get (ahem) aroused doing it — in fact I try to avoid that: too damned distracting!<br />
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Sure, sometimes a lot of sex scenes can be a bit tendious but writing anything too much or anything can be. Like with characters, I really try to make the explicit parts reveal as much about the people doing it, and the story around them, as much as possible.<br />
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Sex scenes might be a key part of an erotic story but it’s not more or less important that setting, plot, characterization … everything else.<br />
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A: The whole process was really wonderful — though I do remember having a lot of fun with the character interactions. For me, when that’s working, I’m not really aware of writing: it’s people just being with one another.<br />
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A: I’ve always wanted to be a writer — think I wrote my first story back in the 4th grade — but it wasn’t until high school that I really tried to make it happen. Even though I tried, on and off, to write a story or so a week it took me about ten years to finally get published.<br />
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In my own defense I was trying to sell where everyone on the planet was also trying to sell: mostly science fiction, horror and mystery magazines and books. In 1993, on a whim, I took a class in erotica writing from Lisa Palac, who was editing a magazine called Future Sex. I gave her a story, my first shot at writing erotica, and she ended up buying it — and then it made it into Best American Erotica. The rest, as they say, is history.<br />
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While I never set out to become an erotica writer it’s been a wonderful place to grow and challenge myself creatively. Even though I’ve been expanding out a bit from it, writing sexy stories will always be a labor of love … or, at least, lust.<br />
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A: Pretty much everywhere and anywhere, really. Sometimes it’s pragmatic: like when you have to write for a specific anthology, magazine, or site. But often they just kind of work their way around in my subconscious. I also like to play games with myself creatively: like making up TV show episodes, movie sequels, spin-off books, etc. I don’t actually ‘write’ them but the ideas get turned into new projects.<br />
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I’m a firm believer that writing is not for the faint-of-heart — it’s damned hard work, there are very few financial rewards, and even less recognition — so you have to enjoy yourself … and I try very hard to do just that.<br />
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A: My father passed away decades ago and my mother about three so my only family is my brother … who thinks my kinky writing is great.<br />
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But while she was alive my mother did know I wrote erotica, and even read a piece or two. I always got the impression she thought I should be trying to be the next Dan Brown or something (shudder) but she never said anything.<br />
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A: Bio time! I’ve something like 400 short story sales — that’s sales and not stories themselves: I’m prolific but not that much.<br />
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I’ve edited some 25 anthologies (I don’t keep count) and have some 12 or so collections to my name, including the recently released Skin Effect (a sequel to my erotic sci fi book, Bachelor Machine. I’m working on novel number seven right now — which should be done in a few months.<br />
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For novels I’ve written erotic romance (Brushes), queer vampires (Running Dry and Very Bloody Marys), erotic science fiction (Painted Doll), and two — to put it nicely — weird queer thrillers: Me2 and Finger’s Breath.<br />
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I’m also an Associate Publisher for Renaissance E Books (that includes the erotic imprint Sizzler Editions) and the Publisher of Digital Parchment Services, who have been releasing the works of Ernest Hogan, Arthur Byron Cover and others — as well as being the sole publishers for the estates of Jody Scott, William Rotsler, and more.<br />
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I don’t have a personal favorite book or story — I like to think that the next one is going to be it. I think the best way to say it is that I like to keep moving forward.<br />
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A: Oh, yes — to both questions. The one I just finished isn’t erotica — and the one I have planned next is also non-erotic, but I have many sexy ones also in the pipeline. I don’t think I’ll ever stop writing erotica but I also think it’s a good idea not to write the same kind of thing. I never knew I’d like writing erotica until I gave it a shot — so maybe I’ll love penning westerns or thrillers or noir or …?<br />
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A: Definitely! Well, some people: there’ll always be people out there who are anti-pleasure and joy. But I think attitudes are definitely swinging towards acceptance — in all kinds of ways. Yeah, things look bleak in some ways but when you look at the way things are moving, even in the often-backward USA, erotica will be getting more and more ‘acceptable’ (whatever the hell that means).<br />
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Another way that writers miss that mark is when they phone it in: they think that erotica will be an ‘easy’ sell — they get lazy. Yes, getting an erotic book published is not as hard as trying to score a big-advance romance, mystery, romance or such but writing down to an editor, publisher, or — worst of all — an audience does everyone, especially the writer, a tremendous disservice.<br />
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This doesn’t just mean it’s better for readers and publishers financially, or even creatively. I feel it’s good for literature itself. A personal case in point: Jean Marie Stine and I created Digital Parchment Services with the aim to put out into the world the authors and works we thought hadn’t gotten a fair shake originally. With a bit of hard work, and some great people, we are re-releasing the works of Ernest Hogan, Jody Scott, William Rotsler, James Van Hise, Arthur Byron Cover and many others. While we have print editions available we could never have done any of this with the old print model of publishing.<br />
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A: That’s kind of tough to say. As a reader I like sensuality and playfulness: a rich use of language (and not just the naughty bits), vivid descriptions, and a use of every sense. As an editor and publisher I like it when a writer clearly cares for what they are doing and are enjoying the writing process — but then that’s true of any kind of fiction.<br />
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(plug) By the way, I also penned a how-to erotica book: How to Write And Sell Erotica<br />
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Q: As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? This may sound schmaltzy but I always wanted to be a writer, even before I knew what a writer really was. My family was moderately creative: mom was an interior designer and dad was an engineer so words weren’t around all that much. Think I’ve always been over-imaginative and words just seemed to be the natural tool for me.<br />
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A: Busy, busy, busy! In addition to running Digital Parchment Services with the wonderful Jean Marie Stine, and also working with her at Renaissance E Books, I’m having a real blast as a regular contributor to the Future Of Sex site, teaching kinky sex classes, and working on various writing projects.<br />
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Wordwooze is also working on an audiobook of Finger’s Breadth — and they previously put out a great audiobook of my science fiction erotica collection Skin Effect.<br />
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As I mentioned I just finished one non-sexy novel but I’ve put it in a drawer for a few months. Next up is another scifi novel but I just got work that someone might want me to do a very erotic novel (with my dear friend Ralph Greco — so it looks like that might be next on my plate.</div>
mchristianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11887406428164757014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729322831881768354.post-81173153266940707742016-05-23T10:41:00.004-07:002016-05-23T10:43:17.346-07:00Bionic Lover The Audiobook!Check this out: my cyberpunk-ish lesbian erotica novella, <b><i><a href="https://amzn.com/B01CYT8LUK">Bionic Lover</a></i></b>, has just come out in a fabulous audiobook version from the great folks at Wordwooze.<br />
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<i>Pell was lost, alone, and lonely until Arc appeared. Fiery, enigmatic, with a mesmerizing cybernetic eye, Arc was everything Pell needed, wanted, and most of all, desired.<br /><br />The next time Pell saw Arc the eye wasn't the only thing artificial about her new lover. And the time after that, and the time after that: each time the passionate and mysterious Arc drifted into her life, Pell saw more and more of her being replaced by refined and precise machinery and with each departure of her natural body for the artificial, Pell grew more and more terrified.<br /><br />One day, she knew, there'd be nothing left of her lover but the cold, the engineered, the bionic.<br /><br />Pell knew what she had to do, but the end, when it came, was worse than she ever could have imagined.</i>mchristianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11887406428164757014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729322831881768354.post-79974863297942839162016-05-14T11:01:00.000-07:002016-05-14T11:01:37.780-07:00MORE Future Of Sex Goodness!I've had a lot - to put it mildly - writing gigs over the years but working with <a href="http://futureofsex.net/">Future Of Sex</a> is definitely at the top of the list!<br />
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<b><i><a href="https://amzn.com/B01CYT8LUK">Bionic Lover</a> </i></b>by M. Christian<br />
Wordwooze Publishing, 2016<br />
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If you’re not one of the unfathomably wealthy elite, avoid the streets of San Francisco. They’re crawling with drug-addled, desperate people hustling to survive until their next Subsistence Allotment Check, people who’ll do anything to avoid being conscripted to serve in the endless Central American wars. People who will literally sell their bodies—an eye or a limb—for a temporary influx of cash. If you don’t have a steady job—and who does, in this era of chronic unemployment?—every day is a day on the edge.<br />
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This is the dreadful, hope-shattering world of M.Christian’s lesbian science fiction tale Bionic Lover—a world that’s chillingly vivid and unquestionably believable. Against this background, he gives us the story of the relationship between two women—shy, struggling artist Pell and streetwise, secretive Arc.<br />
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Pell first encounters Arc at a low-rent gallery where an acquaintance is showing his work. She’s fascinated by Arc’s magnificently crafted artificial eye:<br />
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<i>Tourmaline, onyx, silver and gold, it was a masterpiece watch set in a crystal sphere, the iris a mandala of glowing gold. Her blinks were a camera shutter’s, as imagined by the archetypal Victorian engineer but built with surgical perfection not found anywhere in Pell’s knowledge. The woman’s left eye was jeweled and precise; clicking softly as the she looked around the gallery, as if the engineers who’d removed her original wet, gray-lensed eyeball had orchestrated a kind of music to go with their marvelous creation: a background tempo of perfect watch movements to accompany whatever she saw through their marvelous and finely crafted sight.</i> </blockquote>
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<i>An eye like that should have been in a museum, not mounted in a socket of simple human skin and bone, Pell had thought. It should have been in some other gallery, some better gallery, allowed only to look out at, to see other magnificent creations of skilled hands. Jare’s splashes of reds and blues, his shallow paintings were an insult to the real artistry of the woman’s eye.</i></blockquote>
Then she notices Arc’s real eye, surveying her, notes the other woman’s penetrating, intelligent gaze and her lean,powerful body. Soft, vague, suburb-raised Pell falls into a dream of lust—a dream that Arc fulfills with raw precision and just a hint of cruelty.<br />
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In the morning after their coupling, Arc is gone. But before long she reappears, seeking sanctuary in Pell’s apartment and in her arms. Each time the woman of the street shows up at Pell’s door and finds her way into the artist’s bed, she has traded another piece of herself for some new miracle of prosthetic technology.<br />
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Though <i>Bionic Lover </i>was originally published over fifteen years ago (as <i>Speaking Parts</i>, a more appropriate title in my opinion) , the tale is still fresh, its dystopian visions closer than ever to the current state of society. It is, quite simply, a gorgeous story—rich, dark and arousing, full of startling images and nuanced emotion. M.Christian is at his lyrical best here, using his breathless, flowing prose to bring his heroines to life.<br />
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The book is subtitled “An Erotic Lesbian Romance”, but don’t expect a facile happy ending. The bonds tying Pell and Arc to one another go beyond love—and certainly beyond lust. Pell is simultaneously fascinated and repelled by her lover’s increasingly artificial body. And Arc—well, we never truly understand who she is or what she wants, any more than Pell does. This enigmatic tale will leave you feeling unsettled yet uplifted—as do most serious works of art.</div>
mchristianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11887406428164757014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729322831881768354.post-75410621949583993312016-05-08T10:04:00.002-07:002016-05-08T10:04:50.166-07:00Win A Copy Of SKIN EFFECT And BIONIC LOVER!This is ultra-cool: the great folks at Wordwooze have set up a lovely promotion for my two technorotic books - <b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Skin-Effect-Science-Fiction-Erotica/dp/B01C3EODGW/">Skin Effect</a></i></b> and <b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bionic-Lover-Erotic-Lesbian-Romance-ebook">Bionic Lover!</a></i></b><br /><br /><a href="http://romancebeat.com/giveaways/book-giveaway/">Just go to this page and enter to win!</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br /><i>With The Bachelor Machine, M.Christian set the bar for erotic science fiction stories. Now he has returned to the genre with a brand new collection that will amaze as well as arouse: Skin Effect – tales that push the envelopes of both science fiction as well as erotica in innovative and stimulating ways. Here are stories voyaging to the near as well as the far future, exploring the ultimate limits of sex and arousal.</i><br /><br />Where to buy: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Skin-Effect-Science-Fiction-Erotica/dp/B01C3EODGW/">AMAZON </a>| <a href="http://www.audible.com/pd/Erotica-Sexuality/Skin-Effect-Audiobook/B01C3EO8CQ/">AUDIBLE</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br /><i>A powerful and erotic lesbian romance exploring love, lust…and loss.<br /><br />Pell was lost, alone, and lonely―until Arc appeared. Fiery, enigmatic, and with a mesmerizing cybernetic eye, Arc was everything Pell needed, wanted, and most of all, desired.<br /><br />The next time Pell saw Arc the eye wasn’t the only thing artificial about her new lover. And the time after that, and the time after that: each time the passionate and mysterious Arc drifted into her life, Pell saw more and more of her being replaced by refined and precise machinery…and with each departure of her natural body for the artificial, Pell grew more and more terrified.<br /><br />One day, she knew, there’d be nothing left of her lover but the cold, the engineered…the bionic.<br /><br />Pell knew what she had to do…but the end, when it came, was worse than she ever could have imagined.<br /><br />****<br /><br />With Bionic Lover, acclaimed erotic science fiction author M. Christian spins a mesmerizing tale of bittersweet desire, lesbian romance, and all-too human frailty set in a near future San Francisco where cybernetics aren’t just commonplace but the stuff of erotic dreams.<br /><br />“M. Christian’s stories squat at the intersection of Primal Urges Avenue and Hi-Tech Parkway like a feral-eyed, half-naked Karen Black leering and stabbing her fractal machete into the tarmac. Portraying a world where erotic life has spilled from the bedroom into the street, and been shattered into a million sharp shards, this tale undercuts and mutates the old verities concerning memory, desire and loyalty…truly a book for our post-everything 21st century.”<br />―Paul Di Filippo (author of over 100 stories and five novels)<br /><br />“Rarely is raunch paired with such style and wit…this story offers the sizzle of strokebook sex combined with the dark lyricism of the perverse.”<br />―Lucy Taylor, Bram Stoker award-winning author of Safety of Unknown Cities<br /><br />“M. Christian’s stories are the fairy tales whispered to one another by dark angels whose hearts and mouths are brimming with lust. He goes beyond the pale, ordinary definitions of sexuality and writes about need and desire in their purest forms. Readers daring enough to stray from the safety of the path will find in his images and words a garden of delights to tempt even the most demanding pleasure-seeker.”<br />―Michael Thomas Ford, Lambda Literary Award winner</i><br /><div>
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Where to buy: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bionic-Lover-Erotic-Lesbian-Romance-ebook">AMAZON</a>mchristianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11887406428164757014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729322831881768354.post-2364446317054957902016-04-30T13:16:00.001-07:002016-04-30T13:18:04.624-07:00THE SEX FILES: M. Christian Talks Audio Erotica<i>Check out this really wonderful interview my sweet pal, Ralph Greco, did with yers truly on <a href="http://www.shortandsweetnyc.com/2016/03/m-christian-talks-audio-erotica/">Short And Sweet NYC</a> on the recent release of my erotic science fiction collection, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Skin-Effect-Science-Fiction-Erotica/dp/B01C3EODGW">Skin Effect</a>, as a audiobook!</i><br />
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<i>World-renowned erotic scribe M. Christian has just released his Skin Effect in audio book form. Published in ebook and paperback through Renaissance E Books/Sizzler Editions a year ago, “Chris” was approached by publisher Wordwooze to release the audio book version of his collection of Erotic SF short stories.<br /><br />I managed to get a quick conversation with “Chris” to get his views on publishing erotica in audio book format.</i><br />
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<b>This is your first venture into audio ebook, why now and who with?</b><br />
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It’s kind of been kismet, actually. About a year ago I really got into audiobooks, listening and enjoying but never really thinking about doing one of my own. Mostly because while I do readings now and again, and love teaching all kinds of classes, I’ve never really considered myself very ‘audio.’ Then I had this great opportunity, via the fantastic Wordwooze folks, to adapt my science fiction erotica collection, Skin Effect.<br />
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The experience has been delightful–and then some. Wordwooze did a great job producing the audiobook and Jazmin Kensington is a perfect reader/performer. I’m more than a tad tickled by all this.<br />
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<b>There are obvious differences between reading a book, as opposed to hearing it read. Can you pick out a few of the advantages or disadvantages one form has over another?</b><br />
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Generally I feel there are only slight differences beyond the obvious of course, you are being read to, the other you are reading to yourself and I do notice some jokes work better on the printed page then when read aloud. But one of the biggest things I noticed, and this is not just with my own work but books I’ve also listened to, is that there’s a certain ‘music’ to the language that only really comes out when it’s performed, especially by a skilled reader.<br />
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It really has changed the way I look at writing: when I work on stories and books now I hear them in both my own voice and Jazmin’s. Kind of magical, in a way….<br />
<b><br />Do you see a future where all your titles will be published as an ebook? Or are there just some things that don’t lend themselves to an audio book?</b><br />
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Oh, I have definitely caught the audiobook bug! Wordwooze is working on the audiobook adaption of my queer/scifi/horror/erotic novel <a href="http://amzn.com/B01A7PZ24Q">Finger’s Breadth</a> (the ebook is out with Renaissance E Books/Sizzler Editions right now) and a scifi erotic novella, Bionic Lover. I’m also putting together a special erotica collection for them.<br />
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As far as what works and what doesn’t, that’s tough to answer. Off the top of my head I think that certain visual writing tricks don’t translate easily to audio, but mostly it’s a pretty lovely transition from one medium to another.<br />
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<b>On top of your writing you are also an editor, teacher and publisher, tell us about some of those hats you wear?</b><br />
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Well, I write for a bunch of sites on a regular/irregular basis, am working on a couple of new novels, and still enjoy being an editor and publisher for <a href="https://sizzlereditions.com/">Renaissance E Books</a>, and am the Publisher of <a href="http://digitalparchmentservices.com/">Digital Parchment Services</a>. We’ve been having a blast re-releasing classic scifi books from authors like Arthur Byron Cover, Ernest Hogan, and the estates of Jody Scott and William Rotsler.<br />
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In the San Francisco Bay Area I also teach erotica writing and a slew of kinky sex classes, as well as helping run some support groups. You can see what I’m up to on my site at <a href="http://www.mchristian.com/">www.mchristian.com</a>.<br />
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<i>Grab M. Christian’s audio book Skin Effect <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Skin-Effect-Science-Fiction-Erotica/dp/B01C3EODGW">here</a> and you can listen to a sample <a href="http://wordwooze.tumblr.com/post/138091278626/audio-sample-of-mchristians-skin-effect-new?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma">here</a>.<br /><br />And the first three people who write us will get a free copy of the audio book, care of <a href="http://wordwooze.tumblr.com/">Wordwooze</a>.</i>mchristianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11887406428164757014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729322831881768354.post-24639983041004549182016-04-11T14:54:00.005-07:002016-04-11T14:54:51.475-07:00TWO New FutureOfSex Pieces Are Up!The incredible fun I'm having writing for <a href="http://futureofsex.net/">FutureOSex</a> continues - with two band new pieces live at their great site. Here are some teases:<br />
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<br /><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://futureofsex.net/immersive-entertainment/guide-viewing-virtual-reality-sex-videos-hardware/">A Guide to Viewing Virtual Reality Sex Videos: The Hardware</a></span></b><br /><br /><i>Here’s how to quickly and affordably enjoy immersive sex.</i><br /><br />Inarguably, virtual reality—that science-fiction mainstay of the 90s—has gone from being a far off dream to an actual product currently sold in stores in the space of only a few years.<br /><br />Naturally—human beings being who we are—it wasn’t long before developers saw this three-dimensional technology in entertainment and thought sex!<br /><br />But it’s really the announcement from PornHub, a giant of adult entertainment, that it will now feature a catalog of virtual reality movies, that’s getting many people really excited about this change in viewing adult entertainment.<div>
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