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About me - G.N. Jacobs

What is in a name? If you live in Los Angeles and your name is Gregory Jacobs, quite a lot. There are four people ahead of me in line at the Imdb.com with that name and to my father's chagrin they all have jobs with skills I can't really fake to get work.

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Arts & Humanities > Fantasy & Science Fiction Book reviews: Orphan's Journey, by Robert Buettner: 1 of 1

At first blush, I think I'll do this review in the style of my 13-year-old nephew. There's this guy and, like, his name is Jason Wander. He's a General and he, like, gets in trouble in Tibet so the Pentagon sends him to an orbiting station, where there's this alien ship left over from the last attack. The ship starts up and ...
Arts & Humanities > Fantasy & Science Fiction Has the fantasy genre become stagnant?: 17 of 19

Let's shake the Magic Eight ball for this answer: signs point to YES! The key indicator is that no one seems to write outside of the Tolkien Box. Many fantasy books involve the great quest for the powerful object in order to keep it away from the dread powerful lord, or to use it on said lord, black wizard or necromancer. Pl...
Business > Business Issues Should auto makers receive bailout money?: 5 of 5

The more I think about the Big Three automakers, the more I hear the word bankruptcy floating in the gray matter between my ears. And I don't mean Chapter 11 where a company gets sent to its room without dessert or allowance until released as an almost new enterprise ready to fight for customers. I want to see a total liquid...