The Bracken Collection: Essays and Short Fiction 2010 to 2019

by Matthew Bracken

The Bracken Collection includes the short Professor Raoul X; What I Saw at the Coup; Alas, Brave New Babylon; The Alienork Way; and Wolfophobia on Dog Island. The collection also The Civil War 2 Cube; Night Fighting 101; When the Music Stops- How America's Cities May Explode in Violence; Trapping Feral Pigs and Other Parables of Modern Life; Dear Mr. Security Agent; Covington Gives a Glimpse of Civil War 2; and 24 more essays and short stories.

396 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 20, 2019

About the author

Matt Bracken was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1957 and graduated from the University of Virginia in 1979 with a degree in Russian Studies. He was commissioned in the US Navy through the NROTC program at UVA, and then graduated from Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training class 105 in Coronado California. He served on east coast UDT and SEAL teams, taking a Naval Special Warfare detachment to Beirut in 1983. Mr. Bracken left active duty after Lebanon, upon completion of his obligated military service, but he remained in an active reserve status through the remainder of the 1980s. Since then he has lived in Florida, Virginia, South Carolina, Guam and California. In 1993 Mr. Bracken finished building a 48-foot steel sailing cutter of his own design, on which he has done extensive ocean cruising, including a solo voyage 9,000 miles from Panama to Guam and two Panama Canal transits.

Matt is a self-described freedomista who loves ocean sailing for the pure freedom it often permits. He is a constitutionalist who believes in the original intent of the founding fathers of our country. He lives with his family in North Florida and longs for the wide blue ocean.

Reviews

[cool breeze · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a fine collection of Matthew Bracken's more recent writing. Individually, I would rate them from 3 to 5 stars. The short fiction "Alas, Brave New Babylon" is some of Bracken's best work, 5 stars, and possibly the best introduction to Bracken for a new reader.

[Bruce Wright · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good collection of reasonable and thoughtful essays

Excellent book, unfortunately accurate. It’s good to hear from an author what so many people are thinking and seeing around them.

[savvy · Rating 5 out of 5]

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Timeless, indispensable reading and information. Will be appreciated in the future. Educates you in the form of stories with wit.