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The Truth Is a Lone Assassin

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2013 And Beyond

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A Trip to The Dark Side

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Author Goes Missing

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The Critics Have Spoken

The Adventure Can Be Yours

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"Science Fiction for Thinkers" Unmasked

The World Wide Web seems to be pointing people away from real science fiction these days. That's mostly due to the influence of Hollywood and Madison Avenue. And that's unfortunate because Michael Casher's unique blend of hard science fiction, action/adventure, humor and romance is a new and often astonishing sci-fi experience you won't want to miss out on.

So, what's hard science fiction? Before we tell you that, we'll you what it's NOT. It's not vampires and dragons and monsters and mutants. That's horror. And it's not space opera, intergalactic warlords or space erotica, which has often been mistaken for real science fiction. That's fantasy and smut. Real science fiction is fiction that has some kind of "science" in it, emerging or speculative or theoretical science.

What makes science fiction "hard" is mostly the high-tech element. Futuristic hardware, newfangled gadgets, exotic gizmos, techno-wizardry and all that fun electronic, cosmic speculative science. But it's also the scientific concepts and theories that go along with all that gadgetry. That's what makes hard science fiction seem so believable.

And, if you're wondering what "crossover" science fiction is, we'll spill the beans about that right now. That's genre sci-fi that contains some elements of another genre. Michael Casher's sci-fi combines science fiction, action/adventure, humor and even romance, but it reads like mainstream. You get real — but readable — science fiction, instead of the overrated and overdone sci-fi fantasy that's front loaded with confusing techno-speak, smut and creepy, dark themes.

So, you can forget about castles and capes and swords and unicorns and twisted religious history, too. That's fantasy, which is fodder for moviegoers and gamers and aftermarket pablum for kids with bottomless pocketbooks. Not only is it not science fiction, that kind of tripe is way overdone, to the point of saturation, in fact.

Science Fiction for Thinkers is science fiction for "grownups", adults who aren't so obsessed with sex, violence, swords, Satan, inscrutable ancient scrolls, romantic fantasies and flying waffle irons that they forget how to think for themselves. Remember the 90's phrase, "think out of the box"? That's the kind of readers we're looking for. People who are hungry for adventure, new knowledge and cutting-edge concepts about life, time & space and death.

Michael Casher, Science Fiction for Thinkers and Science Fiction for Thinkers.com invite you to "read out of the box". Your world may never look the same.

Visit Science Ficion for Thinkers.com Today

My official website has a cool new feature for 2010. My little "cyber home away from home" now has one-click links on the Home page that instantly translate Science Fiction for Thinkers.com from English into Spanish, Vietnamese, Russian, French and German. I had to delete the link to Chinese because some browsers wouldn't display the Simplified Chinese characters. But there is another link to an online Google Site Translator that can translate my website into many other languages, including Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean and Japanese.

So, go ahead. Visit Science Fiction for Thinkers.com today.

Your world may never look the same.

Author's Update, 03-01-14: No good deed ever goes unpunished. In December 2013 I had to remove all the language translation links from my website except the main Google Translator with the drop-down box that lets you choose what Google is offering. The other tools either didn't work anymore or became hidden redirects to other Google content. I tried to make my content available to as many people on the planet as I could. But, I 'm a fool no more.

Author's Update, 12-26-10: I had to remove the one-click links that translate my website into Chinese, Korean and Japanese because I found out that these links would not display properly with the Internet Explorer browser. Firefox worked fine but not IE. However, you can still translate my website into Chinese, Korean and Japanese by clicking on either one of the two links that allow you to choose your desired language. Thanks.

"Science Fiction for Thinkers" Collection Complete

With the addition of my sixth sci-fi thriller, Little Green Man from Mars, the Science Fiction for Thinkers collection is now complete. Three books comprise The Evermore Trilogy and three books stand alone.

I'm now writing literary fiction under the pen name Jonco Bugos.

Science Fiction for Thinkers

I don't write comic book SciFi. And I don't write Fantasy, although all my works contain some elements of fantasy in them. But there are no capes and swords, no hooded ghouls or space knights in my books.

When you unmask real life, what you see is a lot spookier and astonishing than anything purely imaginary, and that's what I do. I take an average American town or an average day in the life of an average man or woman and I peek under that rock and expose the supernatural roller coaster ride that runs beneath it all.

And on that roller coaster ride many battles are won and lost and many unlikely heroes emerge and all of it seems so real. And that's because most of it really is. And that's because there's a lot more to life than what we see, hear, smell, taste or feel. And much, much more than we think.

"Deeds of Destiny" Now Available

My fifth novel is now available to the public. Deeds of Destiny is a story about the myth of free will and the reality of cosmically-orchestrated life events.

Evermore Anniversary Date

One year ago today I self-published Evermore, my first novel, and became a published author for the first time. The book had a different cover back then. I began this novel (my very first book) in early January 2002 and finished it on March 30, 2002. Yep, it only took me three months to write my first book.

Then, for the next two years, I peddled it to 45 of the Great and Powerful Publishing Wizards of America, most of them located in Big Apple City, and to 47 of the Literary Agent Gnomes of America who serve them. But, being an unknown author and an independent author to boot, the big bad Wizards and their pet Gnomes were just chewing me up and spitting me out without even tasting me.

It took me two years to finally realize that Americans hate indie authors more than anybody else in the whole wide world because indie authors don't guest star on talk shows or sign books on C-Span and you can't find their mass market paperbacks at Walmart. So, if it's not on TV, no one in America knows anything about it and they don't want to know anything about it. In America, if it's not on TV, it's not real.

While I hawked my first science fiction thriller, I wrote two more, undeterred by American shortsightedness. By May 2003 I'd completed The Evermore Trilogy and was unsuccessfully hawking the entire trilogy to traditional publishing houses for the next year or so.

Would I do it all over again? You gotta be kiddin'. I know when to stop beating a dead horse. Besides, I'd rather be vivisected by extraterrestrials than subject myself to the galling snobbery of my fellow Americans, half of which are "upscale" snobs and half of which are "rube couch potatoes" who get all their information and entertainment from TV.

So, why didn't I try to get published outside the USA? I did. But after mailing two or three queries to Canadian and British publishers who then threw out or else stole my material along with the Self Addresses Stamped Envelope (SASE) and who used for their own purposes the International Reply Coupon (an international stamp called an IRC that I had to purchase and include in the query) I decided that's it's better to be snubbed by your own countrymen than to be robbed by foreigners.

Why I Chose Sci-Fi

On my ninth birthday, at age fourteen, and again at seventeen, my life was altered forever by mysterious encounters with otherworldly phenomena.

The most vivid memory I have is about waving a UFO down from the sky when I was seventeen and then waving good-bye to it several seconds later. Those few seconds turned out to be an hour and a half of lost time.

My novels are not based on these experiences but the new genre I chose — blending sci-fi with mainstream and throwing in a lot of contemporary issues — was definitely influenced by these events.

In the immortal words of the late Robert D. Barry who hosted a local late-night Pennsylvania TV show called E.T. Monitor in the 1980s: Something to think about.