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ZONA:The Forbidden Land
ZONA: The Forbidden Land Zona has been chosen as the Book of the Month on the Online BookClub, a great honor for any author to achieve. We have received many positive reviews lately that suggest the book is reaching a wider audience of Sci-Fi adventure lovers. The book is set in Russia, first in Leningrad and then in the vast expanse of Siberia as an expedition seeks out the lost land of ZONA. Little is known about this mysterious place of strange beasts and exotic plants. Only one man has been to ZONA and returned alive, Colonel Max Volkov, a mysterious man with a secret background.Read More
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EINSTEIN’S RAVEN
Derek Phillips, a cutting edge programmer at the National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden, is tasked to find out who is hacking into the lab’s secret files on “Harry”—one of the most advanced supercomputers in the world. His job is on the line. “Find the Intruder or seek a new career,” his demanding boss tells him. Derek is between a rock and a hard place when he meets a mysterious woman named Raven who is seeking a secret from the past. She is beautiful, and clever, and has serious computer skills.Read More
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NEW SANCHEZ BOOK COMING
Desert Underworld F.G. Baker I’m making great progress on the third crime novel in the Detective Sanchez/Father Montero series. I started working off of an outline I prepared two years ago, but as I wrote the story I had other ideas that seemed to lend themselves to the storyline better. One of the things I noticed in the outline was that the plot was incredible complex, because there were really two major storylines that caused confusion about the plot and the theme of the book. I decided to disentangle portions of the story and may save them for another story later.Read More
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Sense of Time
Recent travels have led to more ideas for stories. This spring I spent a month on the Island of Grenada enjoying the pleasant weather, culture, and sea. It was a relaxing time that allowed me to observe many new things and to consider how different the lives of some of the islanders were compared to my own. Perhaps the most obvious difference was the sense of time. The island runs at its own speed, not too fast and not too slow. There is a sense that a person can go along with time—let things happen as they will—instead of fighting time—forcing things to happen as you would like. The difference is that in the first case, you lose some minutes but things get done.Read More
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Minion Critique
Minion Critique: Satire By F.G. Baker Spoken by Rod Sterling: In a book-publishing world controlled by one last corporation, it was necessary to create an elite cadre of editorial minions to prevent anyone from writing anything remotely original. It began in colleges, teacher’s trade schools and all classrooms, even and especially at writer’s retreats where the indoctrination could be applied 24 hours a day. The programing called ‘creative writing’ quickly generated a legion of editors, writers and agents that could group-think the mantra to the letter. All creativity was driven out of fiction until homogenous drivel was all that remained. We look in on a typical ‘critique session’ in which, by chance, the ultimate drivel was produced.Read More
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School is Hell – Short Story
School is Hell F.G. Baker 6/15/15 I was a dead man, lying spread eagle on my back, face turned up toward the mid-morning gloom of another overcast Chicago day. My skinned knees told the story of how valiantly I fought against the insurmountable odds, like Lancelot fighting barehanded against the huge and overwhelming Dark Knight and his heavy, spiked Mace. Blood seemed to ooze from every pore of my knees and elbows, where they had been savagely ground into the gravel surface of the ground. My face, pale and in repose, was a swollen mass of contusions from the beating I had received, blood everywhere, torn by mighty fists. I had fought bravely, desperately using my arms to block the heavy blows as best I could.Read More
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Ode to John Baker of Hartford
Ode to John Baker of Hartford By F.G. Baker 6/21/15 He came far across the sea of storms alone, To Massachusetts’ shore and Boston Town, As many before had ‘or the water passed, To find a new home among the Blessed. Our John Baker left England’s western lands, To find freedom from God-like King’s demands, Leaving the lessor fortune of family, Arrived with promised opportunity. From fair Boston, he did travel westward, To the Protestor’s new town of Hartford. To settle with Burgers wise, land carved, From Native forests, dense, verdant and wild. Among the Founders, he pursued their path, Entered First Church and there found a true lass, Daughter of John, wooed Lydia Baysey, And with his approval did her marry.Read More
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Connecticut Society of Genealogy Grand Prize
The Connecticut Society of Genealogy awarded Dr. Fred G. Baker the Grand Prize for Literature in Genealogy for their 2015 Awards Contest. The award was made to Fred at the Annual Meeting on May 16, 2015 in New Britain, Connecticut. The Grand Prize recognizes the research leading to and publication of the book The Descendants of John Baker (ca. 1640-1704) of Hartford, Connecticut, Through Thirteen Generations, Volumes I and II, by Fred G. Baker, which was published in 2013 by Other Voices Press, Golden, Co. The book traces the descendants of John Baker, who lived in Hartford, Connecticut as early as 1665, the earliest known Baker in Fred’s Baker family line.Read More
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The Incident at Bolans
The Incident at Bolans F.G. Baker The kitten ran away as it always did, just a short distance ahead and then stopped until Maribelle nearly caught up. Playfully, or according to some little kitten logic, it darted forward again with little Maribelle in pursuit. Down the dirt track they went, between the wooden houses, each needing a little paint but the pride of its owner, the kitten in and out of bushes along the side of the path, Maribelle darting in and out after the kitty. “Come back here you little kitty. Here kitty, kitty!” Maribelle was breathless but determined to catch her little friend and bring her back to the house for a saucer of milk and a lot of petting.Read More
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Boat versus Ship
Boat vs. Ship F.G. Baker Someone recently pointed out that in a story I had used both the words boat and ship in a story and said I should make sure I used them correctly. So I did a little online research on the terms. I ran across an article on the Guardian website where several people had responded to just this question. Here is a summary of the various arguments for the difference which are at least interesting if not realistic! 1. Size matters; A ship is larger than a boat. Many comments like this including some tonnage values for the sizes involved. 2. You can put a boat on a ship, but not a ship on a boat. 3.Read More
