


You are teased with tantalising elements and learn of them along with the main characters.Īs the book goes on, you become somewhat acquainted with the oddities and ease into it's loop of killing clowns, fleeing the shady Intershroud's (great name for a sinister corporation!) agents, waking up and repeating. Wymore has envisioned an imaginative world of dreamers, both lucid and otherwise.

From torturous clowns to the emotional journey of a giant Curious George, you'll never know quite what will pop up next. Finally, the bestselling Actuator series includes work by 25 authors in every fiction genre and uniquely blends all the major tropes of genre fiction.Exacting Essence is a strangely unique story that only gets stranger. His stand-alone novels represent the full spectrum of genres: Theocracide, Exacting Essence, Salvation, Schism, and Thug #1. He also acquired eighteen books for two different presses. In addition to having over thirty short stories published, James has edited six anthologies: The Actuator: Borderlands Anthology, The Actuator 3: Chaos Chronicles, Windows into Hell, Choose Your Own Apocalypse, Mormon Steampunk: All Made of Hinges, and Backward Everything’s. People will forgive any disbelief for a good ending. In the end, those credentials didn’t have any significance. His efforts to become an astronaut, surgeon, dark wizard, and spy were all wasted.

Or, if that didn’t work, he’d just say, “It’s magic.”Įventually, he realized stories justify untruth with meaning. Pushing theories and technology past their limits, he found plenty of safe space where nobody could contradict him. Taking the role of Charlatan to expert level, James pursued science and philosophy to better justify the ideas he created. However, family members usually just rolled their eyes and went on with what they were doing. His friends often benefitted from games or play time which incorporated these fantastic stories. Gaining a kind of fame, people remembered him best for stretching the bounds of believability beyond breaking. Born with the unfortunate talent of lying, James Wymore spent his youth explaining things he said before thinking.
