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The Danny
A short story collection by Brand Gamblin. The Danny is unstuck, bouncing between dimensions and viewing "cusps" of powerful moments and decisions in other's lives. The Danny remembers being human once, and searches through other worlds, looking for the way home. Along the way, it encounters zombies, time travelers, nanites, alien invasion, mechanized infantry, and magical heroes.
The Danny is a collection of seven short stories, some previously published in Flagship magazine. Others have never been seen before. There are stories of high fantasy and low, as well as hardcore and contemporary sci-fi. The perfect book for short shots of intense storytelling.
The Danny is a collection of seven short stories, some previously published in Flagship magazine. Others have never been seen before. There are stories of high fantasy and low, as well as hardcore and contemporary sci-fi. The perfect book for short shots of intense storytelling.
133 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 3, 2011
About the author
Brand Gamblin
10 books42 followersBrand Gamblin was born in San Antonio in 1973. He spent most of his youth in Texas, earning a bachelors degree in Computer Science from Texas Tech University.
Following college, he achieved his boyhood dream of working as a video game programmer. For the next decade, he published games for such companies as Microprose, Acclaim, and Firaxis.
In his spare time, Brand created the YouTube video cult classic, "Calls For Cthulhu", which has thousands of followers worldwide, and has been nominated for several film awards.
Brand's books are generally sci-fi, with some fantasy elements. They range from the near future of asteroid mining to the distant Neo-Victorian era.
In addition to the books he has published, Brand has a steampunk retelling of George Orwell's 1984 which is still waiting on permission from the Orwell estate before it can be published.
Odd Facts:
* For his minor acting roles, Brand Gamblin has a Kevin Bacon score of 6.
* In week one of the 2685 Galactic Football League season, Bran-Gam-Blin was named Defensive Player of the Week.
* Brand's oldest recorded writing was some bad Fraggle Rock Fanfic written when he was a child.
Following college, he achieved his boyhood dream of working as a video game programmer. For the next decade, he published games for such companies as Microprose, Acclaim, and Firaxis.
In his spare time, Brand created the YouTube video cult classic, "Calls For Cthulhu", which has thousands of followers worldwide, and has been nominated for several film awards.
Brand's books are generally sci-fi, with some fantasy elements. They range from the near future of asteroid mining to the distant Neo-Victorian era.
In addition to the books he has published, Brand has a steampunk retelling of George Orwell's 1984 which is still waiting on permission from the Orwell estate before it can be published.
Odd Facts:
* For his minor acting roles, Brand Gamblin has a Kevin Bacon score of 6.
* In week one of the 2685 Galactic Football League season, Bran-Gam-Blin was named Defensive Player of the Week.
* Brand's oldest recorded writing was some bad Fraggle Rock Fanfic written when he was a child.
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December 2, 2011
Author Brand Gamblin presents an eclectic anthology of seven short stories in "The Danny". The tales range widely from zombie horror, to epic fantasy, to time travel and, rather than presenting a single unified theme, the stories are tied together with a clever device that provides an interesting story of its own.
My favorite of the shorts was "Sandys", a time travel tale that looks at a side of time paradox that's usually ignored. What would people in the past really think about time tourists from the future? If an older version of you suddenly walked up and started giving you advise, would you think them crazy but listen to them anyway, or would you resent their interference?
The same sort of sideways glance is given to the role playing fantasy genre in "A Moments Pause". Here, your average assemblage of hero types gathers for the end game, but then what? Is the game ever really over in real life, and what does it really mean to be the hero?
I liked this collection a lot and would recommend it to anyone looking for something different. It should come as no surprise that Mr. Gamblin -- probably best known for "Calls For Cthulhu", an Internet video series that blends Lovecraft's ancient god of terror with a TV game show host -- has a somewhat skewed sense of humor. And that wonderfully quirky sense of humor pervades each of these stories. You may not like them all, but you will almost certainly love the rest.
My favorite of the shorts was "Sandys", a time travel tale that looks at a side of time paradox that's usually ignored. What would people in the past really think about time tourists from the future? If an older version of you suddenly walked up and started giving you advise, would you think them crazy but listen to them anyway, or would you resent their interference?
The same sort of sideways glance is given to the role playing fantasy genre in "A Moments Pause". Here, your average assemblage of hero types gathers for the end game, but then what? Is the game ever really over in real life, and what does it really mean to be the hero?
I liked this collection a lot and would recommend it to anyone looking for something different. It should come as no surprise that Mr. Gamblin -- probably best known for "Calls For Cthulhu", an Internet video series that blends Lovecraft's ancient god of terror with a TV game show host -- has a somewhat skewed sense of humor. And that wonderfully quirky sense of humor pervades each of these stories. You may not like them all, but you will almost certainly love the rest.
June 25, 2012
Brand Gamblin's ability to write novel length work is only challenged by his ability to write short fiction. The Danny is a collection of seven short stories, tied together with by an entity separated from itself and trying to figure out which universe it belongs to. Each stop along the way gives us a glimpse into another world, from epic fantasy to zombie apocalypse and several in between.
I really enjoy Mr.Gamblin's no nonsense style of story telling. There is no hard to understand subplots or out of the pale ideas the require a lot of deep thought. Each of the stories are quick and clean, and in many cases, managed to get the highest mark from me, in that I really wanted more. I do hope that some time in the future that we will get some more in some of these universes.
I really enjoy Mr.Gamblin's no nonsense style of story telling. There is no hard to understand subplots or out of the pale ideas the require a lot of deep thought. Each of the stories are quick and clean, and in many cases, managed to get the highest mark from me, in that I really wanted more. I do hope that some time in the future that we will get some more in some of these universes.
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