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I'll be at the Chapters on Whyte Ave and 105th Street today between noon and 3 pm. Come on by to chat, get a book or bring the book you already own to get it signed. In fact, I'll even sign books I didn't write. President Chavez is rumoured to make an appearance, but we're still waiting for confirmation.

At long last, ASIKO PHANTOM PYRAMID is available on podcast! Also click on the links at the left. New episodes to follow soon! Last night's episode was co-hosted by my daughter Yemaya! Asiko Phantom Pyramid: Global Afrikan Musics led by a Headcharge of Hip-Hop runs every Thursday on CJSR FM-88 (Edmonton) and is cohosted by Bongbiemi the Original Tribesman.

If you'd like to buy a copy of From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain, please go to your local independent bookstore. If they don't have it, ask them to get it. If they can't, click here. BLOG T.O. SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW : “...a major accomplishment that is laugh out loud funny... This is the most revolutionary work of SF since William Gibson’s Neuromancer . Faust has invented a whole new genre of writing and rendered it in some of best prose in any genre. He’s basically given birth to the future . And it’s one good looking baby.... Although it’s only February, I’m confident in saying that the best SF book of the 2007 - maybe the best book of the year-- has already been published.” SUNQIST BLOG: “ The best book of the year , which has been out for something like four days at this point, is From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain , by Minister Faust ... [whose] first book, The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad... was also excellent. This is an amazing book.... It works o...

The Daily Observer ( Banjul ), wrote on February 7, 2007: “At the World Black Festival of Arts and Culture, held in Dakar , Seneg al , in 1966, Cheikh Anta Diop, with W.E.B. Dubois, was honoured as ‘the writer who had exerted the greatest influence on African people in the twentieth century’. “The African continent's fight against colonialism engendered both the ‘warrior-nationalist’, demanding political independence, and the 'scholar-activist', retrieving the stolen 'family China '. And Diop's intellectual oeuvre establishes him as the ‘scholar-activist’ par excellence. He compared imperialism with the prehistoric hunter, who killed his prey spiritually and culturally, before eliminating it physically. And we see evidence of this insight in the way that European imperialism had walled up itself behind a facade of f alsifications and misconceptions about African history, and then proceeded to devalue and disparage our cultural heritage. And relying on this i...

Thanks to Johnny Two-Guns for this one.

After two a nd a half years, I finally have a new novel out! It's called From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain , and it’s a self-help book for superheroes. Well, okay, not really, it’s a satire a bout psychology and office politics. Well, okay, not really... it’s actually about the Bush administration. Check out below to find out what critics and writers are saying . When: Friday, Feb. 2, 7:30 pm at Audrey's Books, 10702 Jasper Avenue , Edmonton , (780) 423-3487 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW): “[S]harp s atire of caped crusaders hides a deeper critique of individual treatment versus social injustice.... Faust's well-aimed jabs spare no super sacred cows nor many pop idols a nd psychobabbling media stars. Underneath the humor, careful readers will find uncomfortable parallels to real-world urban tragedies in the novel's 'July 16 Attacks,' where Faust gives a double meaning to the 'Crisis of Infinite Dearths.'" BOOKLIST: ”[An] excellent superh...

The first kid is good. But the second kid... oh, my sweet game of fizzbin... this teenager is half T1000 and half James Brown.