I’m celebrating the release of “Arctic Fox Android” today by listening to the soundtrack for “Maybe Happy Ending” which is a Broadway musical about two robots, one of whom has a special interest in an insect and the other has a special interest in music, so it’s super relatable.
My book, “Arctic Fox Android,” came out today, and it’s a #1 bestseller in the category “Polar Regions”!
So, uh, I guess if you want to learn about polar regions… you should… really not get my book. But if you want to read about a time-traveling android, then you should!
A line from Dr. Bashir in the TNG/DS9 crossover episode Birthright that really hasn’t aged as well as one would have expected a few years ago:
“You’re right that machines can’t have hallucinations…”
“…most people are either sleep-walking through their waking life or wake-walking through their sleeping life…”
— Waking Life (2001) by Richard Linklater
Maybe Happy Ending is such a beautifully quiet little musical about two robots going on a road trip. It’s my favorite soundtrack to listen to right now along with Tick Tick Boom, which somehow started hitting really hard when my older kid graduated from high school last month.
The more I listen to Maybe Happy Ending the more it feels like it would’ve fit right into either my book “The Opposite of Memory” or “Maradia’s Robot Emporium” if it were a short story. It’s such an incredible gift from the universe that it exists and stars Darren Criss.
My first book with my kid is now available for pre-order!
SKELETON CAT AND THE MASSACRE AT SUNDAE SEVEN is a short, comedic slasher novel about a bunch of college students at an ice cream parlor after staying up all night.
To make sure we were on the same page while working on our book together, my kid and I decided to model the personalities of each of our characters after characters on Parks & Rec, since we both knew them so well. This made working on it extra fun.
So, if you’ve ever wanted to read a slasher where college student versions of the main cast of Parks & Rec get killed off by crazed animatronic animals, then SKELETON CAT AND THE MASSACRE AT SUNDAE SEVEN is the book for you!
That’s right — my furry time travel robot stories are now up to #15 in Polar Regions Travel Guides.
I sure hope that no one actually tries to use ARCTIC FOX ANDROID as a travel guide.
I’ve had so much fun with my first three Tri-Galactic Trek chronicles that I keep coming up with ideas for more of them to write. At this point, I’m up to twenty planned, including the ones that are already out. They’re short books, but that’s still going to take me a while.
We have a running joke in my family — one of the kids will drape a blanket over themselves like a cape and start quoting Casablanca.
This is known as Casablanket. A very, very obscure superhero.