Forum: Author Hangout

Human Phoenix and Human Man are in my mind, the best stories on SOL.

I disagree with you on this. I read the books and while good, they're no exactly air tight.

I read the stories when they were posted and only once, so I may be misremembering things, so correct me if I'm wrong.

The main issues that I remember having with the books is that the protagonist doesn't behave like a normal person. He remembers his life with his gifts, he supposedly doesn't remember before that (especially after the author removed the original start where a dying man is converted into a boy with the gifts). So why isn't he like every other human who takes what he is for granted? Why does he question his gifts and is uncomfortable having them? Why would he feel better once the gifts are gone?

Doesn't make sense.

So while the stories are definitely entertaining, they are not realistic from a human psychology point of view.

Doesn't make sense.

I must not have read the original posts.

What I recall is a wacko kills Mom, Dad, and son and buries them in the desert. But the aliens, who never reappear until the end, resurrect the boy.

The boy is being hunted by a Drug Cartel (?) and a rogue government black ops agent who is not part of Witness Protection gets the boy into the government's witness protection program. The boy grows up with unique abilities wondering how he came to be stabbed; no recollection of what happened before a deputy found him in the desert. All he can recall is what the rogue agent told him. The alien's explanation at the end never made sense to me.

So while the stories are definitely entertaining, they are not realistic from a human psychology point of view.

The boy is an alien nanite reconstruct from the body, but the brain had degenerated too much to retain previous memories before the reconstruction occurred. That comes out in the 2nd story.

I seem to recall him revealing his real name and telling us that his books were available for sale. If that's true, can anyone remember the details?

AJ

AJ,
I looked at the chapter end post of Human Phoenix and at the end of the story he said it was his first Novel length work. Also in the blog he stated that he would begin work on the sequel after he had finished some class work, which seems to indicate he was in school. He also stated this in his profile: "After being an avid reader for several decades I thought I might put, 'Hell, I could write that. to the test.." This would seem to indicate he was not a writer of other genre's.