Recent content by robert eggleton

I agree with ZenithOClock. I don't want to mention the name of my novel because it would appear self-promotional, second edition released last week, but here's an excerpt of a Gold Medal review that supports a sociological element to SciFi: “a hillbilly version of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the...

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Hi! On 5-18-15, the retired editor of Reader's Digest posted the following review. Permission to reprint was granted. Other excerpts of reviews are on the Lacy Dawn Adventures home page: Lacy Dawn Adventures The most enjoyable science fiction novel I have read in several years Rarity from...

Permission to Reprint has been Granted by the Author: The most enjoyable science fiction novel I have read in several years Rarity from the Hollow by Robert Eggleton is the most enjoyable science fiction novel I have read in several years. Who could think of an intergalactic handbook for...

Science is moving faster than the writers of SF can keep up with in order to maintain status within the field. Plus, many high school kids write and self-publish. They, typically, are more knowledgeable about consumer driven technology, but not particularly interested in the research required...

"RARITY FROM THE HOLLOW is one of those strange and exciting bits of literature that captures you with its uniqueness and then lingers on your mind, reasserting itself from time to time to remind you that your reality may not be everyone else's. A rich and original work, full of aspects and...

Thanks, but truth is often, like love, in the eye of the beholder. The good and evil within Rarity from the Hollow can be challenged. For example, more children are resilent to :maltreatment" than those which are adversely afflicted, some for their entire lives. Trauma is subjective. For...

Well, sad, but Boyd concluded that my work was too controversial with child abuse and budding sexuality of a teen. It seems that TV shows like South Park have more flexibility than other modes of literature. Rarity from the Hollow did have some other graphic scenes, like domestic violence, but...

The picture is more clear to me. I'm doing the best that I can. If everybody did the same, the country would be better place.

The Lacy Dawn Adventures Project was created in 2006 as a mission for helping abused children in WV, an impoverished state right here in our backyard. Stories were published by courageous folks that recognized talent, some some money was generated and donated, but then the powers that existed...

Prior to writing fiction, with the exception of a few poems that were published over the years, I wrote nonfiction extensively: service delivery models for children's programs, a collection of group therapy exercises for teens, nationally presented research on youth input on the chaos of...

A new book review of Rarity from the Hollow was recently published in the Electric Review. A Universe On the Edge In Baryonline 103, Barry Hunter concluded his review: "... I can almost hear a blue grass version of Metallica while reading this. I expect to see more from Eggleton and Lacy Dawn...

I didn't see anyplace after I looked around. There were lots of great comments, especially about how to save science fiction. Thanks.

I'll stop by every now and then to try to keep up with what is going on in the world. All members just have to be great people here as everyone seems so cool. Danny Boyd, filmmaker, is reading my first novel, Rarity from the Hollow. If he likes it, I hope to be very busy. If not, at least it...

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