Stevo’s Book Reviews On the Internet has been growing steam on Goodreads, Listopia, and book reader forums where librarians and bibliophiles alike gather, and we are proud to announce that R.J. Huneke's Cyberwar has made the January 2016 Recommended Reading List!

​You can download the list here.

​You can also vote on Goodreads to make Cyberwar one of the Best of the Best titles on Stevo’s Book Reviews On the Internet for February 2016 here.

Stevo’s Book Reviews On the Internet collects the Best of the Best titles in a monthly Listopia entry (and on the page for each book) at Goodreads.com: https://www.goodreads.com/list/user_votes/41770671-stevo-brock.

As of September, Stevo started a “Business Book of the Week” feature, on his site and on Goodreads. As the former manager of Microsoft Network’s Books and Reading Community, he has a large following of book fans who read the monthly list of recommended books on my Delphiforums.com website (the most recent list is at http://forums.delphiforums.com/stevo1/start). The list has proven to be a valuable resource to not only book lovers, but by the acquisitions departments at academic and public libraries, and bookstores (both online and brick-and-mortar).  Pageviews are running at over 250,000/month.

He is currently concentrating on the list, which will include sections for nonfiction, fiction, and children’s books.  Each will be preceded by a section for best books in each category.   

Cyberwar is a book from Pentian, an imprint of Lantia, is in stores! Get it in hardcover, as well as softcover, and eBook (Kindle, Nook,iBooks) wherever books are sold.

When hackers seize the world governments everything changed for all of humanity. A new sense of hope arrived in the streets and young people everywhere embraced the new world order. However, what appeared to be a new found freedom soon turned out to be a new tyranny far worse than anything they imagined. 

William Waltz formed part of the new elite that guarded the regime, that is, until the regime turned on him.

R.J. Huneke has spent years researching for his latest sci-fi thriller Cyberwar. A longtime writer and columnist, Huneke has interviewed cyber security professionals, carefully examined advances in science (including robotics and artificial intelligence) and compiled modern day speculations on technology and spun them into an electrifying journey into a dystopian society dominated by cybernetic hackers. His extensive knowledge on cyber warfare, robotics, and political protest, as well as his strong female protagonist are what set the riveting story apart.

I am compelled to talk to you about some of the fun I have been having recently involving inventing not-so-subliminal messages in binary code for chapter breaks and typing the infamous words “[THE END]” on my next novel’s manuscript.

It has been sometime since I have opened up to you, Eager Readers, and that is why I felt the need to get in touch today to catch up.

I should have said more of myself, but I did not.

A bad car accident has had me in disarray over the last year and a half plus, but my health is improving and so too, I hope, my writing going forward.

It is not an excuse, but it was difficult to write my thoughts down and hard to get them out in the world.

What has been incredibly frustrating is a drastically altered ability to read, to see in general, and subsequently to write and edit.

All kinds of quality of life issues have stricken me down, but the acts of reading, writing and editing, which have been second nature for as long as I can remember, were crippled.

Fear not! Things should improve for me in the not too distant future.

I will get back to making art at a high level, and I am working oh so hard to get back there, and to a healthy state, every day.

But back to the fun I figured you would enjoy hearing about.

Reading and rereading some fascinating articles on translating binary code – and just where the hell those numbers come to have meaning – had me inspired.

This is one of the articles I read from math.grin.edu.

It is called “The Binary System: A pretty damn clear guide to a quite confusing concept by Christine R. Wright with some help from Samuel A. Rebelsky” (and it is quite fun, even for one who tries to ignore math regularly, as I am wont to do).

I will never be able to grasp the sheer math of it all, and the geniuses using this method and other in-depth ways for creating myriad works of art in the Cyberverse continue to have my utmost respect.

But trying to wrap my head around just what those numbers mean and how does so much meaning and information pass through them in the world today, invisible and yet visible at all times through the digitally dependent society that circumvents much of the globe.

Do not get me wrong: I simultaneously love and hate the digital Cyberverse that has infused itself into modern civilization; as much as I am fascinated and utilize the tech, I wish we were not so completely dependent on it.

But I digress, back to fun.

Being moved by the complexity and yet utter simplicity of binary, I decided it would be fun to make a different interconnecting message in binary code as a chapter break at the end of each section in the latest novel I have been writing to follow-up Cyberwar.

I am afraid I do not have a title to reveal just yet, but the book, which was largely complete before my car accident is inching nearer to its culmination.

The binary serves as a great visual break between parts of the book’s words, but also allows me to add in some of my own views on a level, a fun level, that requires a little research on the part of the reader to find the meaning hid in the 1’s and 0’s.

You may also be interested to know that this very week, I typed the words, “[THE END]” onto the ms.

Now there is a good deal of words on the page after those, and that will have to be addressed.

And there are numerous sections that need to be expanded upon, some that need to be chopped down to timbers, and others that no doubt need transplanting, either to other sections of this book or into another book entirely.

That will be the fun as the editing and the writing continues.

I can give no timeline, but want to say a hearty “Hello” to you all and hope that 2016 is a healthy and magical new year for us all.
 
Sincerely,
 
R.J. Huneke 


​"FUN: I wrote [THE END] and binary chapter breaks" was written by R.J. Huneke

Get signed copies of CYBERWAR in NY's Book Revue now by the author R.J. Huneke!

That's right, signed books of the R.J. Huneke sci-fi thriller are being sold exclusively at the Book Revue in Huntington; look for them on the Local Author tables near the front of the famous Long Island bookstore.

R.J. Huneke has spent years researching for his latest sci-fi thriller Cyberwar. A longtime writer and columnist, Huneke has interviewed cyber security professionals, carefully examined advances in science (including robotics and artificial intelligence) and compiled modern day speculations on technology and spun them into an electrifying journey into a dystopian society dominated by cybernetic hackers. His extensive knowledge on cyber warfare, robotics, and political protest, as well as his strong female protagonist are what set the riveting story apart.  

If you cannot meet R.J. on his Cyberwar Book Tour, be sure to grab a rare signed copy of the work - there are very limited quantities on hand in the world's greatest independent bookstore, the Book Revue of Huntington, New York.

R.J. will attend the New York Comic Con 2015, the 10 annual Mecca of pop culture and science conventions, with a table # 1061 at Rune Works Productions / Pentian Publishing and will be meeting Eager Readers in person. 

Rune Works Productions & Pentian will have the booth all four days at # 1061 from October 8-11, and you can meet R.J. Huneke as he signs copies of his novel Cyberwar and the comic he's working on, by creator Ivan O'Neill, the very first issue of Blackwood State from POWkabam Comics! You can also meet colorist and artist Kara Zisa there as well and all will be singing the Blackwood State # 1 issue! 

​The first official publication of POWkabam will be a graphic novel titled Blackwood State, by author/artist Ivan O'Neill, colorist Kara Zisa, and editor R.J. Huneke, and it will be released in serialized form with three 24-25 page issues in the coming months of 2015. We sold out of the Preview comic, Issue # 0, at the Rune Works booth 1061 at the 2014 New York Comic Con and had rave reviews. We are looking fora larger publisher to partner with to bring this series to readers regularly.

For Blackwood State, O'Neill calls on a notorious state college and the life of a young lady struggling to live in a world that has no idea how not to crap on those that value the study of English writing. Alongside her fellow literary comrades, Guinevere Katz must attempt to keep her sanity and her grade as she survives one of the most obnoxious experiences of her academic career . . . and her professional career . . . and her life as a sentient being. 

Calling on father Bill Shakespeare, as her god, and Falstaff as her inner muse and bartender, Gwen's deteriorative, drunken English career is a journey that seems perennially poised on the brink of disaster. Just how the hell does one make a living with a degree in English anyway? 

On Friday August 14, 2015, author R.J. Huneke will be on a special LI Con panel discussing the NSA Revelations and Privacy and Security in the digital era. 

Do not miss out on this panel where experts will discuss, in-depth, security and the cyber state in the wake of the NSA Revelations prompted by former NSA operative Edward Snowden. 

R.J. Huneke has spent years researching for his latest sci-fi thriller Cyberwar. A longtime writer and columnist, Huneke has interviewed cyber security professionals, carefully examined advances in science (including robotics and artificial intelligence) and compiled modern day speculations on technology and spun them into an electrifying journey into a dystopian society dominated by cybernetic hackers. His extensive knowledge on cyber warfare, robotics, and political protest, as well as his strong female protagonist are what set the riveting story apart.  

Rune Works Productions will also have a booth at LI Con 2, from August 14-16, 2015, and you can meet R.J. Huneke as he signs copies of his novel Cyberwar, and comic book creator Ivan O'Neill signing the very first issue of Blackwood State from POWkabam Comics!


Head down to the 2nd Annual LI Con at the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center 3845 Veterans Memorial Hwy, Ronkonkoma, New York 11779 to see the Rune Works Productions booth where artist and Blackwood State creator Ivan O'Neill will be joining author R.J. Huneke to sign books!

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