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FREE!!! FREE!!! FREE!!!

sale of the First Knight Shaman! This is the first book in the Founder's Age of the World of Paradigm Lost by R. Roderick Rowe.

With the upcoming release of the final novel in the installment, you will want to get in on the ground floor of this new EPIC experience!

What's being said about the upcoming novel,

The Third Book of the Knight Shamans?

"This story would most likely appeal to an adult 30+ audience with some college level education, who appreciate literary and speculative fiction. The ideal reader enjoys complex, character-driven narratives with deep philosophical and social focus. The significant LGBTQ+ representation and themes of religious trauma and spiritual exploration would make it particularly resonant with LGBTQ+ readers and those who support them.

It is for a reader who enjoys Frank Herbert's Dune and the moral ambiguity of Octavia Butler's work, rather than the typical post-apocalyptic survival thriller.

Similar books:

1. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler.

2. The Stand by Stephen King.

3. The Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller Jr.

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The Third Book of the Knight Shamans

... is back from the editor. The edits were so few that I was able to get them implemented in only a couple hours.

She loved it! Okay, as much as ANY editor can love/hate anything. LOL.

Here's some notes from other early explorers:

Nuanced Exploration of Faith
"The manuscript skillfully explores the nature of faith from multiple, contrasting perspectives. It presents faith as a source of oppressive bigotry (a "Christian" church), a tool for personal connection (shamanism), and a fallen, flawed system that has brought disaster into the world. This multifaceted approach creates a thought-provoking and complex thematic landscape."

Confronting Past Trauma
"The theme that the past's problems don't disappear with civilization is effectively woven throughout the narrative. The re-emergence of religious fanaticism and the AIDS virus --both "old world" threats-- forces the characters to actively confront historical trauma rather than simply escape it, giving the story significant depth."

And some VERY flattering character comparisons:
Justin Knight: Similar to Hari Seldon from Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" series.
Rodney Knight: Similar to Leto II Atreides (pre-transformation) from Frank Herbert's "Dune Messiah."
Peter Williams: Similar to Paul Atreides from Frank Herbert's "Dune."

Wow! Two comparisons with Frank Herbert's characters. And it's only a 50K novel!

Remember, the first novella in this trilogy within the World of Paradigm Lost is still free until tomorrow at midnight! What are you really waiting for? You gotta get started on this so you can be ready when the final book in the trilogy is released. Soon. VERY Soon!

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Image depicts three books arrayed in an arc over a sawn off tree trunk in a mystical forest scene. The First Knight Shaman. The Second Book of the Knight Shamans. The Third Book of the Knight Shamans. A spray of sun tries to penetrate the foreboding gloom.

With colder weather here, it feels like the perfect time to curl up with a good book!

One I’m proud to recommend is Imber, written by my wife, Deborah Mistina - a smart, atmospheric eco-dystopian thriller that’s ideal for winter reading.

Print, eBook, & KU: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DV3ZB1R6

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Rage, Revelation, and Reflection: Finishing The Unworthy

Read the previous post:

https://haveacupofjohanny.com/book-review/2025/11/22/reading-thoughts-the-unworthy

I finished The Unworthy and, as I suspected, this book left me with one big, resounding “WTF.” But here’s the thing—I expected that. Agustina Bazterrica has a way of crawling under your skin and twisting your perception of what horror can be. It’s never just gore or shock for shock’s sake—it’s psychological, societal, and deeply human.

That said, this one didn’t grip me quite like Tender Is the Flesh. Don’t get me wrong—it’s still brilliant, but it’s a slow burn that lives in discomfort more than tension. I’d give it a solid 4 stars, maybe 4.2 if we’re getting picky, because it’s a complex and layered look at indoctrination, love, and the price of awakening.

The main character is fascinating because she isn’t innocent—she’s complicit. She’s someone who has chosen to believe in the safety and structure of the cult-like sisterhood she belongs to, finding meaning in her obedience and even pleasure in the cruelty that defines her world. But when she meets someone who stirs something real—something resembling love—she starts to remember who she used to be. And that’s when everything fractures.

This is what Bazterrica does best: she makes you feel the rot beneath the surface of civilization. She shows how easily morality bends when survival and faith intertwine. The Unworthy doesn’t give you the catharsis of a happy ending, but it gives you something else—reflection, discomfort, and rage. The kind of rage that comes from seeing echoes of this fictional world in our own.

Because if you strip away the convent and the apocalyptic setting, what’s left is a mirror. We see societies that exploit fear and scarcity. We see how power structures thrive on obedience and shame. And we see how love, real love, can be the spark that threatens to burn it all down.

It’s horrific because it feels possible. And that’s what makes it brilliant.

⭐️ 4/5 – A disturbing, thought-provoking exploration of complicity, memory, and the terrifying comfort of belief.

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3 Anxiety-Inducing Dystopian Writing Prompts

Erik Patterson, the author of the book on writing a dystopian novel, shares three original, anxiety-inducing dystopian writing prompts writing prompts.
The post 3 Anxiety-Inducing Dystopian Writing Prompts appeared first on Writer's Digest.
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📚 The Dream Hotel: A Read with Jenna Pick by: Laila Lalami

Sara has just landed at LAX, returning home from a conference abroad, when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform her that she will soon commit a crime. Using data from her dreams, the RAA’s algorithm has determin...

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Sara has just landed at LAX, returning home from a conference abroad, when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform her that she will soon commit a crime. Using data from her dreams, the RAA’s algorithm has determined that she is at imminent risk of harming the person she loves most: her husband. For his safety, she must be kept under observation for twenty-one days.

The agents transfer Sara to a retention center, where she is held with other dreamers, all of them women trying to prove their innocence from different crimes. With every deviation from the strict and ever-shifting rules of the facility, their stay is extended. Months pass and Sara seems no closer to release. Then one day, a new resident arrives, disrupting the order of the facility and leading Sara on a collision course with the very companies that have deprived her of her freedom.

Eerie, urgent, and ceaselessly clear-eyed, The Dream Hotel artfully explores the seductive nature of technology, which puts us in shackles even as it makes our lives easier. Lalami asks how much of ourselves must remain private if we are to remain free, and whether even the most invasive forms of surveillance can ever capture who we really are.

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TODAY: Lot 722 is here!

When 18yo Teal sells himself for 365 days to save his family from debt, he becomes merchandise. Renamed "Purple" for the livestreams. 26.7 million euros. One year.

This may be a #dystopia, it is definite definitely our world without euphemisms. We already auction ourselves. We just call it employment.

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📚 The Chrysalids by: John Wyndham

David lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, who exist in a state of constant alert for any deviation from what they perceive as the norm of God’s creation—deviations broadly classified as 'offenses' and 'blasphemies'. Offenses consist of plants and animals tha...

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David lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, who exist in a state of constant alert for any deviation from what they perceive as the norm of God’s creation—deviations broadly classified as 'offenses' and 'blasphemies'. Offenses consist of plants and animals that are in any way unusual, and these are publicly burned to the accompaniment of the singing of hymns. Blasphemies are human beings—ones who show any sign of abnormality, however trivial. They are banished from human society, cast out to live in the wild country where, as the authorities say, nothing is reliable, and the devil does his work. David grows up surrounded by admonitions: KEEP PURE THE STOCK OF THE LORD; WATCH THOU FOR THE MUTANT.

At first, he hardly questions them, though he is shocked when his sternly pious father and rigidly compliant mother force his aunt to forsake her baby. It is a while before he realizes that he too is out of the ordinary, in possession of a power that could doom him to death or introduce him to a new, hitherto-unimagined world of freedom.

The Chrysalids is a perfectly conceived and constructed work from the classic era of science fiction. It is a Voltairean philosophical tale that has as much resonance in our own day, when genetic and religious fundamentalism are both on the march, as when it was written during the Cold War.

THE COLD WAR SCI-FI CLASSIC: Following a global nuclear war, a telepathic young boy searches for freedom in a fu

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Arc of a Scythe

In the city where I live, there are quite a few public bookshelves. Whenever I leave my apartment or just happen to pass by one of them, I check them. Some time in the winter of 2023, I did my usual round past the public bookshelf while going to the grocery store. Usually the books in there are literal trash, and it’s so rare to find a good book in good condition, let alone in English. Scythe […]

https://chaosworks.org/2023/arc-of-a-scythe/

Propaganda and polyamory: Revisiting the Hunger Games

Prompted by having read the prequel novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, I recently decided to re-read the Hunger Games novels. First of all, I was curious about the prequel – how can a prequel about the villain of the series tie in? The prequel tells the (love) story of a teenage Coriolanus Snow, who later becomes president (dictator would be the more appropriate term) of Panem. What an […]

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Unwind

The Unwind Dystology was by far one of the weirdest things I’ve ever read. It’s a captivating, easy to read series aimed at young adults, but despite that, it’s nowhere near light reading. In this world, abortion is outlawed, but instead parents can ‘unwind’ their children between the ages of 13-18. This means that they ‘continue living’ in a ‘divided state’, as the euphemisms in this book […]

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I don’t know how but Trump was allowed to run for a third term. News broke today about the Supreme Court interpreting the 22nd Amendment that since Trump was not elected to two consecutive terms...
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📚 The Handmaid's Tale by: Margaret Atwood

In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibi...

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