'Hebros'
Fiction from Dennis Dale: Day of the Red Eye
© 2020 James LaFond
APR/27/20
Dennis has just sent me what is now my favorite recent science fiction story.
it's a shame he couldn't enter this for the Hugo or Nebula due to the condition of his birth. Tha is a celebrity of the near future, a creature who may have already been born as we read this.
"Cameras followed Tha everywhere, always. The first performer to amass a fortune in the tens of billions he was an industry unto himself; his very minutes were processed and packaged and delivered in a variety of forms to waiting media nodes, where they were consumed daily. As one of Tha's management team (he called them his "hebros") noted, its model was the food distribution system, daily sending out trucks with perishable goods..."
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At 3,064 words, or about 9 book pages, Day of the Red Eye reminds me of Rollerball in some ways and in others some of Phillip K. Dick's 1960s work, like Minority Report, with a more appropriately horrific vibe.
Dennis, congrats on a great read.
america the brutal
fanatic
winter of a fighting life
logic of steel
blue eyed daughter of zeus
the greatest boxer
book of nightmares
solo boxing
night city
the first boxers
the lesser angels of our nature
on combat
predation
the year the world took the z-pill
z-pill forever
fate
orphan nation
triumph
the sunset saga complete
ranger?
let the world fend for itself
logic of force
songs of aryas
masculine axis
thriving in bad places
the combat space
beasts of aryas
the gods of boxing
within leviathan’s craw
cracker-boy
menthol rampage
wife—
advent america
sorcerer!
song of the secret gardener
son of a lesser god
into leviathan’s maw
honor among men
time & cosmos
uncle satan
barbarism versus civilization
all-power-fighting
taboo you
by the wine dark sea
dark, distant futures
hate
fiction anthology one
under the god of things
the fighting edge
when you're food
sons of aryas
the greatest lie ever sold
broken dance
on the overton railroad
your trojan whorse
What a great piece! I'd read much more of Dennis. Left him a comment. I've been blogging since 08 and have fewer than a dozen comments which is pretty okay considering how sloppily blogspot interface handles comments.
Dennis will hopefully publish an anthology next year.
I didn't see a button to follow his blog or I would have publicly.