by Bruce Deitrick Price

 

 

NOVELS      NOVELS     NOVELS     NOVELS     NOVELS     NOVELS    NOVELS    ONE EPIC  POEM       TWO BOOKS ON EDUCATION

1: LITERARY

 

  Enjoy a unique who-dun-it.

   Inspired by advances in AI.

 

 

 FRANKIE

 

She's harmless. Chaos ensues.

 

Frankie is mild-mannered. 

People like her.  She likes people.

What could go wrong?

A thriller for intellectuals.

 

 

Visit info site for Frankie: FRANKIE.ZONE 

 

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 The danger is not in how

the robot reacts to us.

The danger lies in how

we react to the robot.

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Ponders the irony that as machines become smarter and more durable,

humans become dumber and more fragile.

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2: ROMANTIC DRAMA

 

 

 

THE MAN WHO FALLS

IN LOVE

WITH HIS WIFE

Romantic drama in Manhattan.

Can a man love his wife too much?

 

MORE. THEY BOTH WANT MORE.

 

 Info, preview and e-book here

(This is literary fiction, not chick lit.) 

Background of this novel.)

 

ORDER ON KOBO:

https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/the-man-who-falls-in-love-with-his-wife

 

 

 

 

3: CRIME FICTION

 

ART AND BEAUTY

 

---Noir Crime Drama Set In New York City---

 

(Manhattan in the 1980s: art galleries and model agencies 

were the two most glamorous businesses on the planet.

Answers the question: what would Raymond Chandler

have done with Manhattan??

Good novel for men and women: tough but tender.

 

Read Chapter 1

 

E-book is available on....coming soon. 

 

REVIEWS BY: WEB-E-BOOKS EDITOR;

LITERARY TITAN;

MENSA BULLETIN 

 

4: EROTIC THRILLER

T O O   E A S Y

-- Sexy Suspense In Manhattan ---

Order paperback on Simon & Schuster site. 

Order e-book on Kindle. 

 

 

SEE "GALLERY OF COVERS" (below)

 

 

"New" again.

This novel has been re-issued by Simon & Schuster as an e-book.

Also available as paperback.

 

Somewhat controversial, Too Easy got many very admiring reviews,

for example, Kinky Friedman (a well-known novelist)

said it's "so well-written it's frightening."

 

Too Easy was translated into German, French, and Dutch. Best described in a cluster of words: suspense, romantic, erotic, intense, adultery, criminal.

 

(Note: this is the US cover. Simon & Schuster put a couple on the cover, so the Europeans did the same. Note, it's not a story about a couple, it's about three people:

Robert Saunders, Anne Saunders, Kathy Becker.)

 

"A witty and entertaining look at our dark sides."--Kirkus

 

Too Easy had many passionate covers--see Gallery of Covers.

 

Gallery also has jacket copy and reviews.

 

 

 

 

5: CRIME FICTION

 

 

 

B I G  D O G 

PI Novel Set In Virginia Beach

at the time of the Vietnam War.

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Read e-book now. Order on Kindle.

 (See short description HERE.)

https://bookgoodies.com/big-dog-by-bruce-deitrick-price/

 

Alert: this book is not about dogs.

In southern towns, the top political and business people

are referred to as big dogs.

That's a compliment.

6: LITERARY FICTION

 

 

 

COMING SOON:  ZAK'S WAR  and more    

some pages and links

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Site is about 60% finished now.  

Come back in a month or two. 

 

 

7: LITERARY SCI-FI

 

 

 

Aggressive AI invades young boy....

Can he save himself?....

Can he save the rest of us?

 

 

 

Story takes place in Silicon Valley over two days circa 2018. Human intrigue and military action flow into each other.

 

White House wants to rein in the world's leading AI pioneer. A small-scale military attack on the man's lab triggers an unexpected response: the laboratory seems to defend itself intelligently.

 

In the confusion, an advanced AI prototype figures out how to escape. Inside a boy named Carlos.

 

MITCH, the AI, was invented by the famous Dr. Newman. He’s paranoid and competitive, and his progeny is the same. Dr. Newman trained MITCH to win at every game. The game they're playing now is: who's boss?

 

The White House and Dr. Newman skirmish over who should pay for his lab, and then they realize two people are missing. And someone or something is harassing Dr. Newman's main competitor. 

 

Carlos, meanwhile, is out on the streets, skillfully surviving, following the orders of something in his head.

 

MITCH, to prove he’s superior, directs the street-wise Carlos to buy a gun and shoot Dr. Newman.

 

Now Dr. Newman, shot in the leg, realizes what he has let loose in the world. He's deliriously happy, if only he can bring the thing home. 

 

Tragi-comic intrigue and suspense with an ensemble cast of interesting characters. Finally, it’s a mystery. How can a very young, very small Hispanic kid from the ghetto, with no skills, save the world?

 

 

I LOVED it! It’s interesting and fast-paced.”  
               Laurie Endicott Thomas,

author of "Not Trivial: How Studying the Traditional Liberal Arts Can Set You Free"



NOW AVAILABLE AS EBOOK ON ALL MAJOR SITES.

PAPERBACK WILL BE RELEASED IN A FEW WEEKS.

 

 

 

7: EXPERIMENTAL FICTION

 

 

NEWS FLASH: ***

       American Dreams

 

 

Perhaps American literature's

most successful experimental novel.

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American Dreams is a kaleidoscopic look at the USA.

 

If you like the offbeat, the surreal,

the literary, the highly original,

A D might be for you.

Please check reviews on Amazon

 

"Price has written a funny, stylistically innovative novel that includes everything a popular novel should have:

romance, sex, adultery, crime, religion,

sickness, death and even Texas." --Publishers Weekly

 

Amazon  has  many reviews  of  American  Dreams

https://www.amazon.com/American-Dreams-Novel-Bruce-Price-ebook/dp/B019ESGIZE

 

 

 

And for dessert

 

A WITTY SATIRICAL POEM

 

I casually claim that Theoryland is the best long poem in American literature.

  In truth, there is not much competition in this category.

 

Theoryland is a mini-epic in five cantos satirizing the faddish thinking,

 crazed competition, and reckless sophistry-making found in our universities.

 

 It's fun. You can actually read it a second time and have more fun than the first time.

 

 Collectors of literary exotica might want to order this little book (Amazon).

That would be appreciated. But you needn't do so to read the poem.

Theoryland is readily available on the Internet.

For example, it's the 5th item on this site 

 (and features a recording of the poet reading Cantos One and Two).

 

In the rooms the critics come and sneer:

my intertext is all veneer.
I may have sinned, my closure fated,
Who knew this jargon was two months dated?

Memo to colleagues: "I'm back!"

 

 

 

Saving K-12 is published: here.

Note that if you look at my education books on Amazon,

you can sample a few pages, specifically the TABLE OF CONTENTS.

You'll know immediately if you want to read these books.

& & &

My first collection of essays was titled THE EDUCATION ENIGMA.

The title refers to the big mystery of why

our schools had so drastically deteriorated.

Still a good read.

 

This book, published in 2009, is shorter and cheaper than Saving K-12.

NB: every article contains a link but many of them are now obsolete. 

 

135 beautifully written pages tell you what you want to know.

Here's the key sentence, in the AFTERWORD:

"Education lost its way 100 years ago and remains lost.

It wasn't logical, and it wasn't inevitable."

You can help fix it.

 

Order on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Education-Enigma-What-Happened-American/dp/1439230358

 

 

 

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--MY THEME SONG--

 

 

ARS POETICA

oh to uncage words
as startling as birds
naked and silken
full of song and shriek
flung into the envious air
on a wonder of wings
to spin and soar and rise
dazzling our days
with surprise

 

 

 

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ART BY THE WRITER