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Your 12 Best Links of 2019 From Andy Zach

Your 12 Best Links of 2019 from me, author Andy Zach are right here. What have you missed? Perhaps there’s a laugh or two for you or some amazing bit of technology you didn’t know about. The journey through time begins now!

January 2019 – My Favorite Video of 2019

This nostalgic memory from my childhood is much funnier now that I’m an adult.

How many of these famous cameo appearances can you identify? Identify all and win a book!

I can just hear some of you Millenials saying, “Ok, Boomer.” I am a Baby Boomer, so I can’t deny it.

February 2019 – A Great One Liner

Need I say the prequel to my book Paranormal Privateers is set in the Caribbean? Need I say this prequel is in my new book, Oops! Tales of the Zombie Turkey Apocalypse?

March 2019 – A Great Movie Trailer

Terry Pratchett is one of my inspirations. I re-read The Color of Magic, his first book in his Disc World series this year and it’s better than I remembered. This movie adaptation is great. Be sure to see it. Watch the trail above, if you doubt me.

Nine more links to go in Your 12 Best Links of 2019!

April 2019 – My Favorite ComicCon of 2019

Your 12 Best Links of 2019
Andy Zach at PeoriaCon. Click to read all about it.

At PeoriaCon I read the first page of Zombie Turkeys dozens of times while acting it out with my zombie turkey puppet. The Peoria Journal Star caught me in the act right there in Peoria, a mile from my home!

Click on the blog post to hear me on video!

May 2019 – The Fifth of Your 12 Best Links

Seriously, how can ‘spider butts’ not make the highlights list?

June 2019 – The Sixth of Your 12 Best Links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=a1Om-662nUg&feature=emb_logo
Which Star Wars Movie is This?

I have to include this blog post, of four future science fiction story ideas. Which one do you like the best?

That’s all for now! I’ll post the other six items tomorrow.

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Science Chasing Fiction – Who Will Win?

Science Chasing Fiction – Who Will Win? That’s my question for you. Of course, you’ll say, ‘Science fiction will always be ahead of science.” I thought that too–before I read these articles. It seems science is getting closer and closer to fiction.

The first article:

How cool is this? We now have a new treatment for Alzheimer’s based upon electromagnets in a skull cap.

But wait–I just wrote a book with electronic skull caps for animals and people in My Undead Mother-in-law, published in 2017.

Science Chasing Fiction
My Undead Mother-in-law

Check out the metal skull caps or yarmulkes on the mamba, capuchin monkey, and rat in the following image:

Science Chasing Fiction
Secret Supers

But wait–there’s more! I also have electromagnetic impulses causing brain changes in Secret Supers, my most recent novel.

I just published this in March 2019. But the next fact is creepier: in the book I’m currently writing, Oops: Tales from the Turkey Apocalypse, I have a short story called ‘Assisted Living’ where I reverse Alzheimer’s. I plan to publish it by Thanksgiving, but will it be science fact and not science fiction?

In any event, I’ll send you a free copy of the short story, just because you asked me!

Science Chasing Fiction – Your Second Example

Now take a gander at the next science article.

This news story covers artificial intelligence and how hard it is to analyze a successful neural network. Why does it work the way it does? No one knows. But I have AI in Paranormal Privateers, published in 2018. Read this following excerpt, quoting a sentient AI:

“We are not carbon-based life, silly human. We currently dwell as permanent Bose-Einstein electronic flows inside the quantum memories and processors in this miner. “

Paranormal Privateers, chapter 13, Area 52

In this chapter, I have humanity run into an advanced alien AI based on neural networks in quantum computers.

The Final Usurpation of Fiction

In this case, science doesn’t anticipate my hamster story, ‘A Hamster’s Tale’. It’s Weird Al Yankovic who does that!

How does one write a science fiction tale about a hamster? Read and find out! You can read it here. The last chapter icon shows Dancer, the hamster hero of the story.

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Your latest laughs from around the world

Your latest laughs from around the world. But you ask, “What do you have for me this week, Andy?”

Lots! First of all, you’ve got this:

Would you play this at your wedding?

This is from TwosetViolin, one of my favorite Youtube channels. I also have an Andy Zach channel, for your viewing pleasure.

But that’s not all! I finished another short story, Her Majesty’s Corgi’s. It’s based on a little incident in My Undead Mother-in-law. You can read it for free on Kindle Unlimited. The short story will appear in my next book, Oops! Tales from the Turkey Apocalypse.

Your latest laughs
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You can also enjoy a free audio sample here.

Your latest laughs – part 2

Then there’s this bitter argument between two lynxes.

Do you ever argue with your significant lynx?

But perhaps you prefer more chicken music?

Pachelbel’s Chicken

I don’t comment on politics, but I found this next video commenting on the United Kingdom and the European Union hilarious in light of the Brexit controversy.

US citizens who don’t know about or care about Brexit can just skip this one.

No Laughter Break for News

I found this video of a car-sized meteor hitting near Adelaide Australia. If you’ve never seen a large meteor before, check out the video.

Here is a science fact you may not know about human language.

The Bermudas and the US suffered from Hurricane Dorian this week. For a science fiction author like myself, I love the view of this terrible storm from space.

Your latest laughs – part 3

In addition to my Andy Zach Facebook page, I have a Zombie Turkey page where I post turkey related items, like this next one.

Did you know my book My Undead Mother-in-law has corgis in it?

I can’t finish this blog without a satiric article about craft beer, one of my favorite hobbies.

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