2041 was a fun year.
In March, Fancy Kevin Steeride surprised his own shadow; twice. In June, Norway set out to remedy a litany of humourless stereotypes and reinvaded Northumbria with three-hundred longships filled with giant Norsemen dressed as clowns… and unintentionally killed hundreds of British holidaymakers before anyone even saw the first plastic battle axe. In August, Canada tried to be rude, but only succeeded in blinking impolitely for a moment or two. And at a dinner party in December, eleven of the richest individuals to have ever lived decided over wine, weed, shrooms, acid blotters, and a mountain of cocaine to pool their resources, and under the name of the Witan, buy space; which they did at around eleven AM the very next day.
Eight-hundred years later, when this particular story begins, this has all worked out surprisingly well.
Hi all! Apologies for being absent for so loooong — I’ve been wandering, counting fireflies, welcoming some new dogs and cats, sadly burying some old dogs and cats, and slowly penning this little, thoroughly silly science fiction comedy: The Fuckening.
Grab it (click on cover to go to Amazon). Read it. Write a review if you feel so inclined.
Yes, there will be a quiz at the end of the class.
You don’t have to write a book to stop by, you know. But we are glad you did. Read you in a couple more years. 😉
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Oh, I’ve been lurking 😉
How’s Mud Island?
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He’s alive! Praise be!
“click on cover to go to Amazon”? – I only see your Infernal Names and Problem of Evil covers – but I’m very smart, so I did find my way there.
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*Problem of Good*
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Word. There is no problem of evil 😉
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The cover of The Fuckening in this post. It’s the big blue thing just up there 🙂
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Ah, that would be the problem of adblockers or something, it’s decided to stop the big blue thing from appearing, but it likes the others. Cool to see Stephen Fry’s comment, by the way. High praise indeed.
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Really, you can’t see the cover for the book until the short extract?
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Nope! No “big blue thing.”
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Okay, I disabled adsblock (I think).
Can you see it now?
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YES!
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YAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!
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I couldn’t see the cover either. And . . . you got some love from Stephen Fry! OMG!!!
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Really… like, literally, you can’t see The Fuckening bookcover on this post? That’s so bloody weird.
Yeah, Fry visited a while ago. Blew my mind to see his Tweet. I posted it here at the time. Couldn’t help myself 🙂
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Can you see it now? (I diosabled adblock)
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Yes, sorry for the delay. (You got lost in the shuffle, which I believe is somewhere near LA.)
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I went to Amazon and bought a copy, I like you sooooo much!
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May your house be blessed and your pool filled with honey!
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I want a hard copy and Amazon don’t do South Africa and I wouldn’t trust our postal service even if they announced they had employed Superman to fly here.
There is a good chance I will be in England in early ’24 so could I get a copy of I ordered while I’m at my folks or even at my sister’s spot in France?
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I can’t even get one here in Brazil! And it sounds like your postal syatem is as good and trustworthy as ours.
You’re heading to the Great Isle? Is everything okay with your folks?
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It will be Dad’s 90th in May
Celeste and I are going over, spend a week and then pop over to France to see my sister and then go down to Portugal.
Maybe I can get my sister to order a copy and get it when I go over?
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Sounds like a plan. The Portuguese are apparently none-too-happy with the number of Brazilians flooding their country.
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Really? My bil has said nothing?
I shall make enquiries…
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Just saw something on the news the other day.
Hey, how’s your ‘cat assimilation’ going? Ours hasn’t progressed at all.
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Both cat’s are still separated from the main Clowder, but they get regular visits which, depending on which cat is the visitor, results in a hiss or two a show of indifference and sleeping on one of the sofas, to full blown fur- flying feline warfare. ( This is usually Maui or Sadio).
Ems is very patient and takes Moo and Mitzy out to the garden every evening for 30 minutes.
(Remember, when they lived next door they never saw the outside of the house!)
We don’t know if they will ever truly integrate so we just play it by ear.
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Yep, that’s about where we are, too.
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The only way JZ could have defined “fuckening” is if he has been looking over my shoulder since I was 13!
I turned around and looked, but I didn’t see him.
Sly bastard 😉
I put new u-joints in my truck driveshaft acouple days ago. Got the driveshaft in, and there’s vibration. Because, of course there is! I took it back out, checked everything over, reinstalled, still vibrates, because of course it does!
Have the driveshaft in the car trunk (thank jeebus for rear fold down seats,) and I’m on my way to have a driveshaft tech look at it. Because nothing can ever be so simple as to just work!
Fuckening indeed. I so look forward to what fucks are incoming tomorrow!
May all of your fucks, be good ones 😉
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…and Grats on the new book JZ! Just realized all I did was talk about me!
But I knew you had a book coming soon, and I look forward to reading it.
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Indebted, I am!
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Another good book
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Lol!
Now I want to know why?
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Atheists and Christians alike, can relate to the Fuckening. In fact, the entire Old Testament would have been called, The Old Fuckening, except the Hebrews have no word for “fuckening.”
And for Christians, what was the Passion of the Christ but the greatest Fuckening in human history.
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Job had a serious Fuckening, I agree 🙂
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John, When I first saw your book, The Fuckening, I thought you were doing a Bible commentary.
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Oh, John Zande, you’ve hit pay dirt.
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Will have if you buy it… and like it… which I think you will. God makes an appearance.
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The re-surfacing of JZ!
Glad to see you up and about.
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Was never down, but thanks all the same 🙂
How’s that Christian Nationalism of yours coming along?
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That’s good/
2nd point:
Don’t know- not involved in any way.
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That’s refreshingly good news, CS!
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Well in fairness, you would be pleased to know this does not change my impression of scripture one iota. I do not judge scripture by men, but men by scripture.
In this, there is safety. But Tkx for asking, and glad to clarify.
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“Hi all! Apologies for being absent for so loooong”. It’s been four years. The blood disorder thing is under control then? Your ok now???
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Leroy?
I’ve been lurking and occasionally commenting!
Blood thing’s cool. It was never out of control, but having good docs helped that.
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Roy, the crazy Monkey, and Bobby. You called me drunk a couple times. You remember Roy? Your post hit my email thanks to WordPress otherwise I would have had no idea.
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Called you drunk because you came here to tell everyone I had died. That was weird, even by your odd standards.
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I apologized for that John and said something like I deserved to be buried in an unmarked grave forever to be forgotten. If I could have your forgiveness?
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I’ll take your “like” as a yes. Sometimes a like is all we get, thank you.
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About your new book.
What I’ve read free makes absolutely no sense and a waste of time and I suspect that’s your point. That is, to see how many of the blind actually pay cash for your waste of time. You survived your blood disorder and found a love for marijuana and in a drug induced fog, wrote another masterpiece.
I care for you because we share a love for dogs. I got a few, rescued a few myself. Your a dude, I’m a dude, I care and you CARE. We have a ton in common; age, upbringing, nationality, abuse, fight and punctuation.
You got words and I got words.
If you want to write a fiction book maybe craft something about your life, your upbringing, how you broke away from the Christian faith because of whatever it was. Craft a story taking your real life hurt and how you abandoned what you were taught by Mother. How “evil” took a little boy and made him hate his Mothers Creator. Use simple words we can easily understand. Short paragraphs that are simple and to the point. Give us JZ in a fictional setting but his real story. I want tears…That would actually be worth $17+ plus shipping.
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Go on Roy — Be bold! Jump on in and have a read. You know it’s going to be funny.
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I tried. It is not my kind of funny. It takes way too much time and after about three sentences I’m tired and very bored and I don’t understand why I’m reading it. Time is money bro. A novel idea from one simple man, different from my last suggestion, is to…Go Fund Me. You are loved by many, myself included. Set it up, make an ask, humble yourself and tell us why. I’d be in for a hundo because after all $17++++ for something I do not understand feels like a ripoff.
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Then get the $5 eBook 😉
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… and what do you have — the attention span of a newt?
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I imagine a lot of people read books and a lot of those love Kindle. I am not one of the first or the latter. And you then succumb to an insult, in your mind, but thinking myself a newt reincarnated, I most certainly would enjoy it. That visual is priceless.
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A much underrated critter
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