My name is Brian Jarrett and I'm a computer programmer and 
I finally got around to buying a Kindle. I’ve been reading on PDAs and the iPhone for years now; I haven’t picked up a paper book since 2006. I liked that I could carry multiple books on a single device and that I could read anywhere with it. But once I got the Kindle I [...]
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My Kindle Touch 3G
Posted: 14th December 2011 by Brian in ReadingTags: 3g, amazon.com, kindle, kindle touch
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I Finished My Book
Posted: 5th September 2011 by Brian in ReadingTags: adventure, fiction, pandemic, self-publishing, virus, zombies
I finally finished my novel Into the Badlands. Here’s the blurb: It’s been three years since a devastating pandemic transformed most of the world’s human population into vicious, wild animals. Ed Brady and his two sons rely solely on each other in order to survive in a world completely devoid of stability and structure. Their [...]
Bordered In Black
Posted: 15th June 2010 by Brian in ReadingTags: larry niven, outer space, science fiction
One of my absolute favorite science fiction short stories is Bordered in Black by Larry Niven. For some foreboding reason that story really resonated with me. Here’s what Niven had to say about it in a little forward to the story: “Bordered in Black” is a nightmare vision. If a vision were enough, it would [...]
Inherit The Stars
Posted: 6th June 2010 by Brian in ReadingTags: james p. hogan, moon, science fiction
The Road
Posted: 4th February 2010 by Brian in ReadingTags: cormac mccarthy, fatherhood, post apocalypse, speculative fiction
