"Beyond the tight writing and rapid-fire dialogue, the author’s sharp intelligence and dry wit heighten the storytelling... this introduction to the Deilonium Trilogy [is] fabulous, funny, and slyly smart." - Blue Ink Review, starred review (full review)
"A fast-paced adventure with philosophical leanings and plenty of twists."- Kirkus Reviews (full review)
"...a first-contact story folded inward: not aliens meeting humans, but a manufactured mind colliding with its own awakening... This book will most appeal to readers of science fiction, cyberpunk, and speculative noir who enjoy ideas about artificial intelligence tangled up with sex, power, and moral ambiguity. Fans of Philip K. Dick or readers who liked the philosophical unease of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? will find familiar questions asked in a brasher, more contemporary voice. The Malfunction is a smart, unruly novel about what happens when desire outpaces design." - The Literary Titan (full review)
Lance is a LUV-U 69 companion droid designed for a single purpose — to satisfy his owner's sensual needs. But when a routine upgrade goes too far, Lance is downloaded with enough intelligence and free will to crack the lid on a very dangerous can of worms.
Now the world’s most advanced sex toy has escaped his owner, outsmarted his own programming, and set out on a mysterious private mission.
Only one person can stop him — AWOL Retentions Agent Charlie Bear Claw, a hunter with a troubled past and a savage talent for tracking rogue machines and annihilating them.
In Book One of The Deilonium Trilogy, a primitive hunter pursues his high-tech prey in a deadly game of cat and mouse, only to discover a far greater threat quietly eroding the very fabric of their world. As the pair draws closer to their showdown, both man and mandroid come to realize they are ultimately at war with the same maniacal enemy — an enemy that plans to destroy civilization as we know it.
Suddenly, everyone wants Charlie Bear Claw dead.
Whether it’s the assassins out to collect a bounty, or Björn Thorson – that pitiless zillionaire with an unhealthy god complex – the hunter has now become the hunted. But no one is more eager to make the kill than Lance the rogue lovebot. He has it in his plasma gel brain that Charlie has committed a crime against him that can only be corrected through a bloody act of vengeance. The ensuing chase will propel both man and mandroid on a test of survival into their own hearts of darkness, as well as the dark soul of the failing humanity from which they both were born.
It's analog vs. digital in Book 2 of The Deilonium Trilogy as the old ways are pitted against the new.
May the best life form win.
Planet Earth is on the brink of an irrevocable evolution engineered by the most dangerous megalomaniac since Adolph Hitler. If you’re not a wealthy white man, you’re an endangered species. Now is not the time for any self-respecting warrior to lay down his weapons.
And yet, that’s just what Charlie Bear Claw has done.
Haunted by the ghosts of his guilt-ridden past, and weary of fighting a losing battle against global tyranny, the old-world hunter has adopted the passive philosophy of a monk.
Now it’s up to Lance, the rebel love droid, to snap him out of it.
In the final book of The Deilonium Trilogy, the flesh and blood man of the past and the mechanical man of the future must team up with neo-primitive tactics to kick some tyrannical ass and save their dying world.