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Joseph Ferguson

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Joseph Ferguson is an author, poet, and journalist appearing in a variety of small press, regional, and national publications. He wrote
propaganda for a living for a variety of entities for some 25 years.
His recent collection of short fiction, Southbound, follows the exploits of one character, Basement Man.
He is a former editor and critic for Hudson Valley , ran the Fiction Workshop for the Poughkeepsie Library District, and regularly reviews books and videos for Climbing, The American Book Review, Kirkus Indie, and a number of other publications.
He also sells rock climbing t-shirts through his website: http://www.bumluckhome.com/

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Small World

by Ronald R. Johnson (Goodreads Author)

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Joseph Ferguson said: " Under the threat of global annihilation by aliens, a journalist, together with an ever-growing band of mismatched people, hunts for a mysterious individual known only as Basil.

Johnson (What Does God Do from 9 to 5 2016, etc.) has somehow taken the Under the threat of global annihilation by aliens, a journalist, together with an ever-growing band of mismatched people, hunts for a mysterious individual known only as Basil.

Johnson (What Does God Do from 9 to 5 2016, etc.) has somehow taken the philosophy of Hegel and the experiments of Milgram that demonstrate there are only five or six degrees of separation between any two people; mixed in equal parts Marx Brothers, Watergate, Douglas Adams, and Cinderella; tagged his characters with monikers straight out of Dickens, film noir, and Snow White; and wound up with a snide, witty, completely entertaining romp through human nature and all its foibles. The adventure begins on the moon where television reporter Dak Blayzak is supposed to interview a genetically engineered brainiac whose family consists of multiple self-cloned children. Instead, Blayzak winds up imprisoned for knocking down a robot, propositioned by a number of clones who want to escape with him, and ultimately dead (though rumors of his demise are greatly exaggerated). While dead, he boards a shuttle to the dark side of the moon where he awakes to a gun-toting expert on a language no one else speaks, and who incidentally has reasons to despise Blayzak. The Professor, as he is known, says they must find an alien named Basil in 10 days or the earth with be destroyed. The aliens communicate through a hand-held device in pictographs only the Professor can decipher. Half-convinced, Blayzak goes along with the Professor tracking down each subsequent link to Basil; every one with some difficult relationship with the preceding and succeeding connection. Eventually, the links lead to a super secret cabal that runs the world, an action and humor packed showdown, a return of the clones, pillories, big band music, a tremendous explosion, Basil, and a giant worldwide Kumbaya. But Johnson, a philosophy professor, has more up his sleeve than great writing and a funny, extremely readable story; readers will also have fun searching between the lines for deeper implications and references.

This multi-level book can be read for fun as an enjoyable farce, or mined for deeper insights. ...more "

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A well constructed mystery. A thoroughly enjoyable mystery, filled with interesting characters, a wonderful setting, and a series of twists and turns that are surprising yet grow logically out of the characters and the plot line.
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“I believe in moderation. But I wouldn't overdo it.”
― Joseph Ferguson, Southbound

tags: humor, literary, literary-fiction

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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
― Michel de Montaigne

tags: reason-education

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“I believe in moderation. But I wouldn't overdo it.”
― Joseph Ferguson, Southbound

tags: humor, literary, literary-fiction

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“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”
― Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben

tags: misattributed-to-hemingway, writing-drinking

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“Were those dots, she doted, connected on any linear pathway, where the past joined with the present as an invisible time chain? Time’s effects were certainly not invisible, no matter how invincible.”
― Mehreen Ahmed, The Blue, Red Lyrae

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Oct 14, 2016 08:00AM

Majenta wrote: "Hello, Joseph! Thanks for contacting me, you're welcome for the "Like"! Congratulations on your books! I hope you're well and having a good week. Happy reading, writing, and everything else (in mod..."

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Oct 13, 2016 08:52PM

Hello, Joseph! Thanks for contacting me, you're welcome for the "Like"! Congratulations on your books! I hope you're well and having a good week. Happy reading, writing, and everything else (in moderation, and don't overdo that either!). Blessings (and NOT in moderation, I hope!)!

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