For the eight of you waiting breathlessly for my fourth novel (the third one is mostly done but on hold, awaiting further plot developments), let me bless you with a new term that I just came up with five minutes ago: ethical materialism (which won out narrowly, and perhaps temporarily, over ethical naturalism).
My narrator for all four novels is Jon Mote. He has problems—lots of them. Some are more or less cognitive, in the sense of trying to understand the human condition, the world around him, and his place in ...