Parallel Visions: City of Angels City of Demons

by Fritz Freiheit

“My name’s Vance Coreman and I see things that other people don’t.”

The question of whether Vance was dead or not became more than academic when he found himself in a bathtub up to his chin in ice water like some forgotten cocktail garnish, a demonic woman standing over him, and no memory of how he got there. But that question was one among legion, because what memories he did have were as comforting as a blackjack in the dark. So it wasn’t surprising when he found out that trouble was his business, and business was kicking his door down.

340 pages, Paperback

Published September 30, 2017

About the author

My first memories are of watching the Lone Ranger and JFK's funeral on TV. I discovered Heinlein in my middle school library, and have been avidly consuming SF and fantasy, sometimes to the detriment of my grades and social life, since then. I graduated from East Lansing High School, Michigan, in 1977, but my taste in music didn't crystallize until 1985 when I found myself in Los Angeles, recruited to write a Japanese language parser after spending a year in Japan working for Sumitomo Electric. A decade after that I graduated from the University of Michigan with a Masters of Science in Artificial Intelligence and got married. It would be another decade before I finished my first novel. I live in Ann Arbor, Michigan where I irritate my wife and daughter by listening to 80's music.

I self-published my debut novel Dispensing Justice in December of 2011. It's sequel, The Red Rook, was published in July of 2013.

Reviews

[Lauren Havens · Rating 4 out of 5]

The description of the book doesn't do it justice, I think. I was thrown off initially by the description of the character waking up with no memory in a bathtub. But, it actually works. The character lives in a world like a video game simulation with magic. He's learning the rules, quickly, but there's certainly a sense of panic that he won't learn things fast enough. The pacing is nicely done, and I would enjoy reading another in the series. Fantasy, adventure, mystery. Good fun!