Pit Stops and Proton Beams by Aurelio Rico Lopez III - FEBRUARY 3rd
Let’s just say you’re hitching your way to another galaxy and weird space dust somehow gets into your spacesuit and your tongue goes numb…
And now the simple idea of a haiku 575, suddenly changes and the balance of syllables becomes some other numerical equivalence. Come along on this journey of what we’re calling experimental haiku, or maybe, another dimension; get infected and just say these words: “Beam me up Scotty!”
Blurbs from other spaceships
“A minimalist approach to an exploration from SF tropes with more than 200 haiku. Clever, entertaining, and at times laugh-out-loud.” -Bruce Boston, author of Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets
“The haiku becomes a singularity alien that mutates, lives in your heart, and never dies in this awesome exploration of syllables, space and soul.” -Christoph Paul, author of Horror Film Poems
“Sci-Fi fun! Whimsical, different and a brilliant reversal of the haiku.
In your best Alien voice, I highly recommend to read this collection again and again. Such a Science Fiction Gem!" -Sharon Ferrante, author of The Choir of Crickets
Cover Design by Malgorzata Mika
United StatesAmazing Poetry
I bought this based on Nikolas' review, and he nailed it. This was a stellar collection of various horrors and monsters. The situations span a wide variety of scenes that are self contained and well crafted. Loved it!
United StatesA Strange Surprise
Aurelio Rico Lopez III has provided readers with a robust assortment of free-verse narrative poems. There are literally dozens of stories and set pieces conveyed through poetry in this collection, and it's well worth the time spent properly digesting each and every one. A Predisposition for Madness has certainly put this writer on my radar in a good way. In these pages, you'll discover monsters both human and far from it, you'll witness new pandemics and sickness ravaging households and the world, you'll see warfare and apocalyptic scenarios played out, and you'll encounter things far more challenging to describe. There's most certainly something in here that will suit the tastes of any reader, assuming that reader enjoys poetry. Even if you don't typically enjoy it, I'd recommend giving this collection a chance. The title is an apt one, the cadence of the poems coming across almost as if the stream of consciousness ravings of a madman in a padded cell, alternating between mumbles and screams.