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Authorson the Air host Pam Stack welcomes author Nick Pirog. I read 3:00a.m., Nick's novella and was completely captivated. I read his "Thomas Prescott" series too and was sold on his funky writing style. Here is what I learned about Nick. "Many authors have shaped my writing style, but I put three writers on a pedestal; John Grisham, Nelson DeMille, and Michael Crichton. The first two authors are basically the antithesis of one another. John Grisham's stories are so good that you don't care that his characters don't jump off the page. Nelson DeMille's characters are so grand and hilarious that you don't care what happens in the story. And last, M.C. (RIP), who somehow carved out a genre all his own and for that alone, I cherish his works." To purchase Nick's books go to or visit his website at THIS IS A LIVE INTERVIEW SO JOIN US BY CALLING 347-633-9609.

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Right now, there are nine merging novels and the overarching plot bringing them together is slowly coalescing. The novels currently coming together are The Others, Flux, Tribe, NPC, Exo-Hunter, Infinite, Torment, Infinite2, The Dark, and Mind Bullet. This is STAGE ONE, and was completed in November, 2021.

STAGE TWO brings together two groups of characters from several novels for two separate crossover stories. The first group merges characters from The Others, Flux, and Exo-Hunter, for THE ORDER (available now), a sci-fi thrill ride on Earth and beyond. The second group pulls characters from Tribe, The Dark, and Mind Bullet, taking this superhuman team into the underworld for a fantastical and horrific tale, titled KHAOS (October 2022).

And all of this sets up STAGE THREE. A single novel, bringing together the casts from all nine novels, for a massive spectacle titled: SINGULARITY (December 2022). The story will follow a vast cast, facing threats that have been building behind the scenes for the past several years, bridging science-fiction, mythology, and horror. Along the way, there will be plenty of action, a lot of laughs, a few tears, and a mind-blowing finale that has been five years in the making.

Below are links to buy every Infinite Timeline book currently available, in the suggested reading order. Each of them is available in audio, print, e-book, and Kindle Unlimited editions. Torment and The Order were just recently released. Khaos arrives in October 2022, and Singularity in December 2022.

I laughed out loud when I first heard THE DARK. I truely love reading in order of these series. I just finished MIND BULLET and had the same effect of LOLing, (if that is a phrase). J Robinson, kudos to you. I took a screen shot of your series so I can read them in order. I also gave Infinate a shot and then read Infinite 2 thinking it was next, but after seeing the order on here, looks like I missed a few. Keep up the great work!

But to answer your question better, NH:Atlantis will give you a good understanding of Milos and his motivations, and what his odd bell can do. It should help, but may be completely unnecessary. I just recommend it.

man i started with Infinite, soo good, read the Others, hilarious im from South Central Idaho, now i know where they came from.. checkrd out Exo Hunter.. soo good again..

after that i got the thing from audio books announcing Infinite 2. looked at your website. i then made a profound discovery.

it seemd like there was a character from another book, the guy from the Others at the end, sorry i forgot his name..

Since then im almost done with all but the black covers.. The Order is next but now its The Dark, after MIND BULLET, [ one must sound like RC B]

long story short, thanks for the awsome ride!

I love this idea! I have listened to Infinite 1 & 2 and both were great. I just noticed all of his books as the Infinite timeline on Audible and was confused and looked up this site. I do believe I have myself a new set of books to listen to now!

Love all your books and especially the concept of Infinite Timeline. There are obviously looser connections to the Nemesis series and Second World. Do you have a list what other book/series we can see contributing characters from?

I came here looking for the same thing. I have a pretty bad memory but I am having trouble linking things together (Up to NPC) I recognize the character names in the epilogues but then have to google for 20 minutes to refresh who they are and try and remember where everything linked in. I just finished Exo-Hunter (Accidentally got Exo-Hunter and NPC mixed up in my library so those two are out of order)

Hi,

Just finishing Infinite. Very thought provoking and well written.

For some reason the libraries around the Chicagoland area, (I live in the south suburbs) do not have inventory of your Infinite series.

So, I have holds on Project Nemesis books and hope to start reading them soon.

I realize that Dark (which was great) had some background but it was fast and towards the end. They are then mentioned arbitrarily through some of the other books but maybe I missed something in another series. I enjoy the play on Abrahamic and Greek/Roman religions vs Spirituality. With the Lux and Tenebris apparently representing angels and demons, it just seems skimmed over as opposed to the Titans and Linda ?

I have to say as a life long fan of anthology in all its forms, this series is truly inspiring in its breadth of genres. But as I continued to absorb each new novel, what impressed me most was the scope of human nature and experience that is covered over the entire series (love,loss,orphanage, ptsd, existential meaning, religion, racism etc)Instead of listing all the varieties of human experiences you touch upon, I just want to ask you a question about them.

The online edition of The American Prospect published an article comparing the Bush administration's current policy in the Middle East to comic books -- specifically, to the Green Lantern Corps. Here's what they had to say:

I refer, of course, to the Green Lantern Corps, DC Comics' interstellar police force assembled by the Guardians of Oa. Here's how the Corps works: Each member is equipped with a power ring, the ultimate weapon in the universe. The ring makes green stuff -- energy blasts, force fields, protective bubbles, giant hammers, elephants, chairs, cute rabbits, whatever -- under the control of the bearer. When it's fully charged, the only limits to the ring's power (besides the proviso that the stuff must be green) are the user's will and imagination. Historically, the rings couldn't affect yellow objects, but in recent years it's been revealed that this was the "parallax fear anomaly" (don't ask) and that the problem could be overcome by overcoming fear -- which is to say, with more willpower.

Without getting into the specifics of Bush's current foreign policy (or for that matter, the current run of Green Lantern), this statement seems grossly unfair -- to comic books. I understand why Bush's world view full of its talk about capturing "evil-Doers" who are hell-bent on destroying the "American way of life" reminds some people of comic book superheroes -- it is colorful, broadly drawn, larger than life, and sometimes a little punch-drunk. But the reality is that contemporary comic books have offered a much more nuanced depiction of our current political realities and have adopted a pretty consistently progressive framing of these events than The American Prospect and its readers might imagine.

The American Prospect is not the only publication that has recently taken on comic books as a site for current foreign policy debates. Comics Journal (a publication which has never missed an opportunity to express criticism of mainstream comics) has been running a two part series by Michael Dean about the ways comics responded to 9/11 and its aftermath. You can see a small sample of what they have to say here:

The first part of this report noted a developing trend toward comics with a "superpatriotic" theme, setting square-jawed American heroes and superheroes on the trail of Osama bin Laden and other terrorists -- most notably Frank Miller's much-publicized plans for a Batman-versus-bin Laden showdown. Miller told the press that there was once again a need for the archetypal satisfactions of the classic 1940s wartime propaganda comic. The cover of Tightlip Entertainment's May-shipping comic, Freedom Three #1, is a recreation of the Captain America #1 cover showing the red-white-and-blue hero punching Hitler with Captain America replaced by one of the Freedom Three and bin Laden substituting for Hitler as the punchee. Fantasy tableaux of superheroic vengeance directed against demonic terrorist icons clearly offer a degree of gratification to comics readers today.

Dean does some interesting reporting here, arguing that ideas from conservative think tanks are finding their ways into some contemporary comics though his focus is on a small handful of examples that may not be representative of current industry practice as a whole. It is true, for example, that Marvel worked with former embedded journalist Karl Zinsmeister to produce Combat Zone: True Tales of GIs in Iraq, but that same publisher also launched a new 411 series which first hit the shelf in April 2003 even as American troops were marching into Baghdad. Taking its name from an old telecommunications code for information, the series expresses a belief that it is important to inform the public about alternatives to war and violence. As Marvel President Bill Jemas explained, "411 is about peacemakers: people who make sacrifices in the name of humanity. These are people willing to die to keep all of us - on all sides - alive... But the theme of sacrifice for the sake of peace, for the sake of all of humanity, is hard for many Americans to accept right now, with the hearts and minds of the body politics rising in a patriotic furor... These stories are neither anti-American nor anti-Iraqi, not anti-French, nor anti-Israeli. 411 is pro-human." Opening with an essay on "Understanding the Culture of Nonviolence" written by Mahanda Gandhi's grandson, the series included contributions by Tony Kushner (Angels in America), longtime anti-nuke activist Helen Caldicott and political cartoonist David Rees. Marvel's overt engagement with the antiwar movement was certainly rare among American corporations. How do we decide which book is more representative of Marvel's response to the War on Terror?

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