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Gemini Destroyer Book Review

Gemini Destroyer Book Review

This is the end. Gemini Outsider was an end. This is the end. The end of the Gemini Man story, the ultimate culmination of everything that happens. Which makes it interesting that the Gemini Man hardly appears in it. We will instead follow a petty criminal, a former follower of

Gemini Outsider Book Review

Gemini Outsider Book Review

In the second Gemini Man book, Gemini Drifter, I said that Matthew and Jason had the freedom to make their own path. In Gemini Outsider, that choice has now been made. The choice is to seek anonymity and normality, whatever that means for two young men who have traveled between

Gemini Drifter Book Review

Gemini Drifter Book Review

Matthew and Jason have returned to Earth, escaped the Great Sorcerer King, killed the woman who tricked them and destroyed a building in the process. Now what? Gemini Drifter, the second book in JD Cowan's Gemini Man series, presents our protagonists with more freedom than the last. In

Gemini Warrior Re-released

Gemini Warrior Re-released

JD Cowan's Gemini Warrior went out of print when Silver Empire went out of business, but thanks to JD's recent Kickstarter, Book 1 is back up on Amazon, and Books 2 and 3 will be out soon. I'll copy my original review as an

The Gemini Man Kickstarter is Live!

The Gemini Man Kickstarter is Live!

This is a good week for adventure fiction writers. Friend of the blog JD Cowan has launched a Kickstarter to complete publication of his Gemini Man series. I reviewed the first book, Gemini Warrior, in 2019. Gemini Warrior is set in a shared literary universe, Heroes Unleashed, and one of

Generation Y: The New Lost Generation

After last Monday’s re-visiting of the generational conflict in Great Teacher Onizuka, I wanted to turn to an illuminating collection of essays and short stories, Generation Y: The New Lost Generation 1979-1989 by JD Cowan, Brian Niemeier, and David V. Stewart. You can grab a free copy through JD’

The Last Fanatics: How the Genre Wars Killed Wonder

The Last Fanatics by JD Cowan is an important piece of unaffiliated but not wholly unrespectable scholarship about the history of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in the twentieth century. No one else is asking, let alone answering the question of how we got here with the amount of detail