Baltar Xinzo

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Baltar Xinzo is the pen name of an Argentine-Canadian author based in Ottawa. A scientist and engineer by training, Xinzo writes reflective tales that often have a dark undertone typical of the noir genre but also have a sense of hope and optimism atypical of that subgenre. While Xinzo has defined his style as 'analytical fiction,' he frequently dives into existentialism, repurposing literary elements from genres such as cyberpunk, hard science fiction, transhumanism, and transrealism. ...more

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"While We Were Sleeping" by Baltar Xinzo

Danica was an independent young woman living alone in downtown. She had taken the path of isolation, fighting alone to keep her life free of unnecessary anxieties. She thought that there would always be a future to deal with today’s issues, or would not?
On once warm night of summer, Danica went to sleep relying on a world of calculated risks and regularities. However, the world in which she woke Read more of this blog post »
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“Reverend Kirk stated the case [of sexual contact] more clearly when he said: "In our Scotland there are numerous and beautiful creatures of that aerial order, who frequently assign meetings to lascivious young men as succubi, or as joyous mistresses and prostitutes, who are called Leannain Sith or familiar spirits. "I hardly need to remind the reader of the importance of such "familiar spirits" in medieval occultism, particularly in Rosicrucian theories. Nor do I need to mention the number of accused witches who were condemned to death on the evidence that they had such familiar spirits. Like the modern abductees examined by Budd Hopkins, the women accused of witchcraft usually had a strange mark or scar somewhere on their body.”
Jacques F. Vallée, Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact

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“In the plausible intimacy of approaching evening, as I stand waiting for the stars to begin at the window of this fourth floor room that looks out on the infinite, my dreams move to the rhythm required by long journeys to countries as yet unknown, or to countries that are simply hypothetical or impossible.”
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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