Paradigms Lost
Ryk E. Spoor
Baen, Dec 2 2014, $15.00
ISBN: 9781476736938
In April 1999, Wood’s Information Service owner
and solo operator Jason Woods currently works on clarifying digital photos for
Police Lieutenant Klein when he hears a loud bang outside his shop. At about the same time his BFF Syl Stake, the
psychic owner of the Silver Stake shop, arrives through the front door. They check the noise only to find the
battered corpse of big displaced Lewis with two bites on his neck. Police Lieutenant Reisman leads the homicide
investigation in which the M.E. reported the victim had no blood left in his
brutalized body.
Klein explains to Wood that he is staking out
Verne Domingo while the photos of this drug lord seem to be missing him even as
individuals in the pictures appear to interact with someone. Learning of Wood’s consultation, Verne
invites Jason to his mansion where they chat while he provides a different spin
to the photos and introduces his guest to a world he never knew existed over
the next twenty-seven months.
Reading more like eight entertaining urban
fantasy novelettes that interrelate through the fully developed lead triangle
(Jason, Syl, and Verne), subgenre fans will take immense delight in reading Ryk E. Spoor’s “greatly expanded edition of Digital
Knight”. The pulp fiction storylines
are filled with plenty of adventures and diverse paranormal species that
brilliantly seem natural; while dynamic Jason "is the center of weirdness for the universe"
(Eerie, Indiana). Though my personal
favorites occur in a California courtroom and Venice, Florida; all the entries
are fun because of how adaptable, quick-thinking Jason uses his head not to
knock on Wood but to find solutions to supernatural puzzlers.
Harriet Klausner
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