Welcome to the world of Andrew Vaillencourt’s science fiction!

Here you will find two-fisted tales steeped in the competing flavors of rage and redemption, vengeance and vice, and of course, profit and loss. It’s a rough place. Not big on niceties or manners unless you are the kind of rich that lets you get away with murder.

It’s a rough-and-tumble galaxy out there. Making your way takes more than gumption. You’ll want a granite chin and a nimble gun hand if you find yourself too far from the safety of the closest shining metropolis. If you have the cash, go ahead and hire that genetically enhanced bodyguard you saw an ad for. At least check in with the local fixer, a retired special forces cyborg, before you wander out into the streets by yourself.

Because sometimes the universe decides that today is not your day. When that happens you will need people like the ones in these books . People with the guns, the tech, and the skills to tell the universe to go bother someone else.

They aren’t pretty. They aren’t nice. Some of them are barely even people. But when push comes to shove, these are the ones that are only too happy to push back.

These are their stories.

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Roland Tankowicz arrives in Dockside for the first time. Broken, haunted, and lost, the young cyborg finds himself in the middle of a brewing gang war. Can one good cop and one angry young cyborg killer prevent the endless waves of criminals from ruling the streets?

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Established as Dockside’s premier fixer, Roland’s life gets twisted into unrecognizable chaos by the arrival of a mysterious woman with a connection to his past. She was looking for a hero, what she got was a weapon.

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John Sullivan didn’t ask to be born, and he certainly didn’t ask to be crazy. But that’s what happens when somebody else gets to pick out your DNA. Even worse, under the Genetic Equity Act of 2141 all artificial modifications granting ‘unfair advantage’ belong to society. As the genetically engineered son of a famous mobster, Sullivan’s physical gifts and illegal provenance condemn him to a life of government service hunting and apprehending others like him.

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Aloof technological beings with godlike powers have left administration of the galaxy to an elite caste of powerful constructs. With iron fists, these constructs stamp out anything that looks like evolution or high-end computing.

When a random genetic anomaly sets off a massive galactic manhunt, the fates of entire planets hang in the balance. An enigmatic warrior, a miracle child, and a contentious collection of wizards will have to decide if it is time to embroil all freedom-loving worlds in a massive civil war.

MOVIE REVIEW:

Captain America: Brave New World (2025)

I have to say, this whole fillm felt like a return to form for Marvel. They certainly have made stronger films, but this one delivered all the pieces that made the studio’s early work compelling.

Namely, an emphasis on character. This movie is about Sam Wilson trying to fill the shoes of a beloved hero and feeling like he can’t do it. This, I feel, is a brilliant bit of meta-commentary on the fact that Anthony Mackie has been saddled with the unenviable position of having to replace a beloved actor who defined the Captain America character for an entire generation of Marvel movie fans.

Spoiler alert: Anthony Mackie is not Chris Evans. Sam Wilson is not Steve Rogers (which this movie will point out explicitly in several places). If you go to the theater wanting Chris Evans to play Steve Rogers, then you are not going to the right movie. If your chief complaint about this movie is that Anthony Mackie is in it playing someone who isn’t Steve Rogers, you are going to be dissapointed. You also may be an idiot.

But if you go to this movie expecting to see a man crushed by expectations he cannot possibly meet, then you will enjoy Mackie’s nuanced performance. He bounces between the bravado of a man who gets to wear a flying super-suit in to battle against nefarious villains and the terror of someone who knows for certain he is just not good enough to be what the people really want and need. You will realize halfway through that this guy buckles his swash to cover a paralyzing fear that his inadequecay will get someone hurt or killed.

Giancarlo Esposito hops in as a late edition in the role of the dangerous mercenary Sidewinder. Esposito is frankly flawless, however the nature of reshoots is exposed by how underutilized his talents were.

The other big red elephant in the room is Harrison Ford as Thaddeus Ross. Ross gets a suprisingly meaty role in this film (pun intended), and being a consumate professional he delivers. Of course, playing a grouchy old man is not exactly a stretch, here.

I also love that Marvel chose a foe for our new Cap that he cannot possibly be expected to beat. Spoiler alert, it’s a hulk. There is no version of Marvel continuity where this is a fair fight. It’s ludicrously unfair, JUST LIKE EXPECTING SAM WILSON TO BE STEVE ROGERS IS. Furthermore, Steve Rogers couldn’t be expected to beat a Hulk, either. That’s the fun part for me as a viewer. No one at the scale of either Cap should be expected to tackle a hulk-level villain. And yet the expectation was there, all the same. Poor Sam. So unfair…

There are things to quibble about with this one, but it’s really just picking knits. The real villain seemed flat and his motivations came off as infantile. Ford probably got more screen time than his character needed. Several supporting characters could have been omitted to tighten the narrative. Whatever. This was a solid, pulpy, comic-book-style romp with a suprisingly satisfying layer of character growth.

I enjoyed it immensely.

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What happens when genetic engineering runs amuck? In a future where two distinct classes of human beings have to live together, conflict is inevitable. Follow the journey of one mentally unstable genetically-modified agent as he uncovers the secrets behind his own creation and the rapidly unravelling state of his world.