Enjoy this deleted chapter from my first novel, Pareidolia. The premise is available here, and the table of contents can be found here.
Here we find Zeke and Marcus discussing the astrophysics conference that Zeke lately attended (outlined in this deleted chapter), and Marcus shows Zeke a taped TV show episode that he suspects must contain an anonymous interview with Kenneth Holcomb.
Continue readingEnjoy this deleted chapter from my first novel, Pareidolia. The premise is available here, and the table of contents can be found here.
This chapter was written to flesh out the Ford Van Zorn character and explore some of the stranger philosophical and scientific themes introduced early on in the book.
I wound up deleting the chapter because Ford Van Zorn later evolved into a character who was, shall we say, less thoughtful than the person interviewed below. Also he was originally written as Dutch, and later changed to a charlatan masquerading as a Dutchman.
Continue readingEnjoy this excerpt from my first novel, Pareidolia. The premise is available here, and the table of contents can be found here.
(PART ONE)
ZEKE
Rosedale, MD | September, 1998
Cory’s coded message brings me to a cinderblock apartment on the edge of a Baltimore suburb. I dial 011 for the Miller birthday party. Arrows on signs guide me through a pale maze to a long low room where balloons gather in corners and look down on people in various states of milling under lights turned up too high.
Enjoy this excerpt from my first novel, Pareidolia. The premise is available here, and the table of contents can be found here.
PART ONE
In your mind you have capacities, you know;
To telepath messages through the vast unknown;
Please close your eyes and concentrate with every thought you think;
Upon the recitation we’re about to sing:
Calling occupants of interplanetary craft;
Calling occupants of interplanetary, most extraordinary craft.
– Klaatu
Jason Herrboldt 