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Dead Man's Switch
A collection of neo-noir stories by author Liam Sweeny.
168 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 15, 2015
About the author
Liam Sweeny
38 books25 followersI was born in a rotted wooden shack by the moonlight on a cold winter's night...
Okay, so I was born in a hospital in March on the nation's bicentennial year of 1976. People were partying and I was unleashing bio-terror on my parents every changing time.
Born and raised in the Capital District of New York, Albany and it's environs, I grew up with the pride of knowing that "going to the city" never meant Albany.
I didn't start writing fiction until I got back from Louisiana after Katrina. It took that to launch me from stanzas to scenes.
I've written three Sci-fi/Fantasy novels, a few collections and novellas, and I drifted to old haunts, to the most fun parts of my life - delinquency. So now I write cops and crimes.
I like making great characters, mainly because I like meeting great characters. My experience is that people will tell you anything you want to know if you're ready to listen. I'm all ears.
Okay, so I was born in a hospital in March on the nation's bicentennial year of 1976. People were partying and I was unleashing bio-terror on my parents every changing time.
Born and raised in the Capital District of New York, Albany and it's environs, I grew up with the pride of knowing that "going to the city" never meant Albany.
I didn't start writing fiction until I got back from Louisiana after Katrina. It took that to launch me from stanzas to scenes.
I've written three Sci-fi/Fantasy novels, a few collections and novellas, and I drifted to old haunts, to the most fun parts of my life - delinquency. So now I write cops and crimes.
I like making great characters, mainly because I like meeting great characters. My experience is that people will tell you anything you want to know if you're ready to listen. I'm all ears.
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May 9, 2015
The challenge of reading a short story collection (especially flash fiction, like several piece in this collection are), lies in having to reinvest yourself emotionally over and over again in each and every story offered to you. Liam Sweeny cleverly avoided that pitfall by regrouping stories that are so faithful to the same format that they become an experience in themselves. Dead Man's Switch is a study of plot twists. They are the most important part of 95% of the stories in DEAD MAN'S SWITCH. This collection shouldn't be judged for its characterization of its emotional weight, but for the great range of originality of its plot twists, which are the main appeal of this book.
To give you a more concrete example, reading DEAD MAN'S SWITCH is like zapping through the most glorious nighttime television programming you've even seen. It changes genres, it changes eras but it just keeps surprising you, whenever you're about to change channel.
To give you a more concrete example, reading DEAD MAN'S SWITCH is like zapping through the most glorious nighttime television programming you've even seen. It changes genres, it changes eras but it just keeps surprising you, whenever you're about to change channel.
June 8, 2015
Accidentally 5 starred my own book. No clue. Carry on.
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