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*** "A real page-turner... Not to be missed." - Locus *** Mitch Helwig is a cop who has gone over the edge. He's got a Barking Dog-an infallible, illegal lie-detector, worn under street clothes - and he's tired of being lied to. He's a criminal's worst nightmare. **** "The near-future cop-thriller is a growing sub-genre, in which old-time heroes walk the dark and subtly altered mean streets of a cityscape we can all identify from Blade Runner. Barking Dogs is the first novel to turn Toronto into one of those darkly menacing cities." -The Toronto Star **** ... Read more

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A true classic
Expanded from Terence M. Green's short story of the same name from THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION into a full-length novel, BARKING DOGS is both a thrill-a-minute story of vigilante justice and a nuanced, well-observed character study.In the near future, Toronto cop Mitch Helwig has seen too much injustice, and too many obviously guilty people get away with their crimes.When a perfect, portable lie detector -- a "barking dog" -- comes onto the market, he gets one, even though it's unauthorized, and having it changes not only how he conducts his policing on the mean streets of Toronto, but also his relationships with coworkers, friends, and family.BARKING DOGS stands beautifully on its own, but there is also a wonderful sequel, BLUE LIMBO, also now available again from Phoenix Pick.Terence M. Green has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award as well as for the Aurora Award -- and it's easy to see why.Great writing, great story, great insight -- it's all here in BARKING DOGS. ... Read more

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A Transcendent Time-Travel Novel

From the notorious penal colony of Norfolk Island to Greenpeace's encounter with the H-bomb, characters come unstuck in time, struggling to get back home while they face truths about their innermost selves. Terence M. Green combines his famed attention to human foibles with an ever-widening perspective that ultimately expands to cosmic proportions in this moving, literate exploration of what it means to be alive.

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A request from his dying mother sends Leo Nolan on a quest in search of his long-lost uncle, who left Toronto for the U.S. at the height of the Depression and has not been heard from in more than fifty years, along a trail that takes him to the small Kentucky town of Ashland.Amazon.com Review
As she is dying, Leo Nolan's mother asks him to find herbrother Jack, who left home during the Great Depression and dropped outof sight.Leo's quest for his uncle takes him south to Ashland, Kentucky, where hediscovers that the present lies in the unbreakable grip of the past. ... Read more

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Ho Hum -- More Time Travel
Shadow is a competently plotted and executed novel, which takes as its departure point a man's search for his long-disappeared uncle who appeared to his mother on her deathbed.Reality, vision, near-death hallucination, it's never clear what she saw, but not long after her death letters from the missing man, written fifty years before just after he abandoned Toronto and headed south to the U.S. in the depths of the Great Depression,begin to arrive.Navigating by the trail of postmarks the nephew reaches Ashland where he encounters his again young uncle one midnight outside the hospital where the uncle worked briefly.Soon he travels back to Great Depression Ashland and is deep into a farfetched miners' plot to rob a bank.There is plenty of trenchant commentary on the rich, much third person detail of depression suffering (recounting the deaths of children is a favorite theme), a love triangle, a new romance for the jaded but brittle narrator, praise for Fr. Coughlin, the Nazi-sympathizer priest who captivated radio audiences in the Thirties, and some fairly stilted dialogue meant as romantic banter.None of this engaged me much, however, and I finished the short novel with nothing more than a sense of another book read and not likely to be long-remembered.

A beautifully written book
In this brief and lovely book, the narrator, Leo, goes on a search for his uncle, missing for fifty years.In the process, he travels back in time to depression era Kentucky, a literary device which is beautifully done and does not seem at all out of place. The author's prose is straightforward and moving in its simplicity, and themes of hardship, loss, remembrance and recovery are woven into the story in a way that stays with you. One of the best books I've read in a long time.

A quick read
Leo Nolan is at first glance trying to fill a void for his dying mother.In his search for her lost brother he is transported to another time, when troubles ran deep. The characters are easy to grasp, and attention todetail is not necessary.The intermingling of the here and the"then" is inviting. I found this book to be a compelling quickread, worthy of passing onto others.

Worth the Read
I didn't think I'd like this book but it surprised me.The narrator is likeable and the story is easy to follow.This is not a typical romance (which is what I thought when I looked at the cover).Worth reading atleast once! ... Read more

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Armed with hi-tech weapons and equipment, cop Mitch Helwig embarks on a crusade of vengeance and heroism through the dark landscape of the future. By the author of Shadow of Ashland. ... Read more

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3 1/2
Well, I would not give it a 4, but hey. I am not much for sci-fi, but I am an opened minded person. The book was not that hard to belive, though I wonder if Green got money for using all those plugs for the products in the book. It was O.k. just dont expect to much from it.It will pa...ss the time

Voracious reading, with aheart & soul!
Hard-boiled crime drama in the 21st century.I was pleasantly surprised how well it drew me in, since I generally prefer far future SF.Green starts the action from the get go, and his crisp straight-forward writingmade my eyes hungrily consume the pages.He also managed to give the storya strong character focus, instead of relying on non-stop action.While theSF element of the book spotlights the effects on society of theintroduction of the first sort-of successful revival of the dead fromcryonic suspention, the heart & soul of the drama shows the troubles inlife for those that are the "thin blue line", showing thattomorrow's tomorrow may not be so different than today. Technology growsand changes, but people are people.

So the recommendation center isn't perfect...
Very rarely do I actively dislike a book. This was one of those times when I did. Yes, it's a sci-fi detective story. That's good. Yes, the premise is interesting. That's good. But the characters were *so* one-dimensional, theplot was *so* predictable, and the concepts were *so* glossed-over, that Ifound myself very pleased to get through it at all. Amazon.com'srecommendation center has never steered me so wrong before, but I guessthere's always a first time. When I finally slogged my way through it, Idonated it to a homeless shelter. And now I feel guilty about it --homeless people don't deserve dreck like this...

this is the best sci-fi book ive read this year!
for a very short book, blue limbo is packed with emotion and adventure. terence green is a writer to watch.the characters are very real, i could feel the pain in mitch helwig when he split up with his ex-wife.i would highly recommend this book to fans of science fiction and people who dont read sci-fi books. i hope the paperback edition does well for mr. green. jim sbicca

Marvelous
I stumbled upon Mr. Green's book Blue Limbo in the library, and once I had read several pages I knew I was reading great fiction.Oddly enough the writing reminded me of another author I love--i.e., Paco Ignacio Taibo III.Both writers manage to pack a great deal insight, humor, and immmense sadness into very small packages.Although the science fiction component of the book is small, a cop in the near future, I think it serves as a great context for a character, Mitch Helwig, who is deeply entrenched in the past and struggling to make a present for himself.The humor is dark and very funny, and the characters relationships cut straight to the heart.This is a great novel, now if I can only find Barking dogs.. ... Read more

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*** "Explosively paced... definitely long on readability."- Publishers Weekly*** Mitch Helwig is a cop on the edge, "a man who's gone through the valley of the shadow and hasn't quite made it out the other side" (Toronto Globe & Mail). Vengeance and heroism, the subtleties of family woven into the metaphysics of life and death, all come together here in a page-turner, "a near-future tech-noir thriller" (SF Site) that moves at breakneck speed. ***"A chilling picture of Toronto in the not too distant future."-The Toronto Star *** ... Read more

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An exciting near future thriller that blends physics, metaphysics and real life!
BLUE LIMBO is an exciting, blazing fast, high-tech noir-thriller set in a near future Toronto. Mitch Helwig, a heroic cop with a poorly established sense of his own mortality has just raided and destroyed a criminal gang's warehouse dealing them a crippling financial blow. Not content to deal solely with the police and Helwig, the gang is out for revenge. They've kidnapped his aging father and they're attempting to murder his best friend and his young daughter.

Helwig is portrayed as a vengeance-minded rogue cop armed with futuristic weaponry like laser guns that can cut through flesh like a hot wire through soft butter, water guns capable of delivering lethal electrical shocks and infallible portable lie-detectors called "barking dogs". But despite Helwig's brutal arsenal and his willingness to get things done outside of any legal boundaries, BLUE LIMBO is not the simplistic, derivative BLADE RUNNER or MAD MAX type of novel one might be forgiven for expecting.

In fact, BLUE LIMBO is a compelling, character driven essay that explores the meaning of friendship, love, family and parenting. The dialogue that Green puts into the mouths of Helwig, his aging father and his beautiful but wise-beyond-her-years nine year old daughter is positively beautiful, humorous, exquisitely heartwarming and quite capable of moving a reader to tears.

Like his better known Canadian writing contemporary, Robert J Sawyer, Terence M Green is also a writer who isn't afraid to use his novels to explore deeper philosophical questions that are a natural outcome of the world's scientific advancements. In this case, the title BLUE LIMBO refers to a state of quasi-existence after death that the medical world has found a way to tap into and communicate with a deceased person's brain for a short period of time after what we have traditionally labelled as death. BLUE LIMBO positions itself deeply in the soft side of the sci-fi spectrum by leaving the technology unexplained, by simply asserting its existence and choosing instead to explore the issues that would arise were such technology available.

BLUE LIMBO is an exhilarating combination of physics, metaphysics and the realities of life and love. My hope would be that this positive review would help to deliver a few more readers. Goodness knows, BLUE LIMBO deserves it. Highly recommended.

Paul Weiss

So-so mystery with not a lot of mystery
After the spectacular fire, one could easily guess that dirty cops would pop up at some unexpected moment. Although advertised as a book about the future, the scene was eerily 1990 - cars, cell phones, traditional schooling.As in most novels attempting a depiction of the future, this one offers a wild invention without any of the lead ups.For example, we suddenly didn't land a man on the moon. There were simultaneous developments in conputers, materials, chemistry and electronics.In this case, science has found a rather hokey way of reviving the dead for four weeks (don't ask) during which the "dead" person sees everything in blue.

Of course, one character will be killed and brought back to life with crime-solving revelations.Along the way, Mitch Helwig (where DOES he come up with these names?) goes semi-crazy, operating outside the law he has sworn to uphold and enforce.Think bad sci-fi avenger with big toys. At least a third of this rather sparse prose could have easily been eliminated without any degradation to the story. The good guy (?) wins in the end and perhaps gets the good gal.Ho hum.

A great SF novel, great crime novel, great family novel
When Tor books first published this book, I provided one of the cover blurbs for it. It's a terrific story of a cop-on-the-edge in a vividly realized near-future Toronto ... but it's also a story of a man putting his life together after his marriage fails. Great character moments abound in this book, and the central conceit of using technology to let us revive the dead long enough to find out what they know is cunningly handled. Read it. ... Read more

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In Canadian writer Terence M. Greens widely-acclaimed novel, Shadow of Ashland, Leo Nolan went to Ashland, Kentucky in 1984 to search for his mothers lost brother. He found not only his uncle, but a wife and child for himself. Now it is the late 1990s and his stepson Adam wants to track down and meet the father who abandoned him before he was born. Leo figures maybe he ought to find the man first, just to check him out. Jeanne and Leo are also trying to have a child together late in life. These two story lines intertwine and reinforce each other in this lyrical and affecting new novel. ... Read more

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A worthy sequel to Shadows in Ashland!
Several years ago I read a new author, Terence Green, when his book Shadows in Ashland was published.I was intrigued by the family history presented in this book as the main character, Leo Nolan, sets out to find his uncle who left home during the Depression and was never heard from again.During his journey Leo, a resident of Canada, finds himself in Ashland where he not only finds out about his uncle's life but meets a woman Jeanne and her young son Adam who will become an integral part of his future.

The years have passed and in his newst book Green continues the story of Leo. Once again living in Canada, Leo is now married to Jeanne and the father of her son Adam.At 21, Adam is a fine young man who sudedenly exprsses an interest in meeting his biolgocial father.Leo sensing that Adam may be hurt by either finding or not finding his father, decides to try and find this man without Adam's knowledge.

While traveling first to Ohio, the last place Jeanne knew Adam's father lived, Leo has time to reflect on the male influnces in his life which include his father Tommy Nolan, grandfather Bampi and cherished uncles. He also spends time reflecting on the death of hia biological son Aidan from his previous marriage and his dreams and wishes for Adam as he is about to embark on adulthood.Finally in the most moving parts of the book, Leo comes to terms with his and Jeannes inability to have a child from their marriage.And as we read on we wonder what the outcome of this journey ultimately will be for Leo as well as Adam.

Terence Green's plot, characters and writing envelop the reader from the first page to the last one.And if readers findthemselves ending the book with tears as I did, it is because the Nolans have become part of your family and you hate to leave them.I look forward to reading more books by Terence Green but now am content to read his second book Witness to Life which also discusses another aspect of this families history.

A LOVE STORY TO LIFE'S PASSAGES
We first meet Leo Nolan in "Shadow of Ashland" seeking knowledge of his lost uncle, Jack Radey. Knowledge is found, along with a lovely woman and her young son. Leo marries Jeanne displacing she and Adam to his home in Canada, leaving behind Adam's father. Now, 15 years later, in an act of protection, Leo feels he must anonymously meet the "other" father, prior to Adam doing so. The poignant trip back to Ashland conjurs sentimental memories memorialized beautifully by the prose of Terence Green. As his passenger, the reader delves into cobwebbed rememberances of drive-ins, childhood mayhem, and life's non predictiability. You are never disappointed in Leo's sidetrips....the magical moments lie there in quivering wait.

Terence Green is one of my top ten favorite male authors. This is a vast compliment, as I am somone who has read thousands of books, multiple genres, bevy of writers. His simple, quiet, sentimental style mesmerizes my eyes and heart to each page; each circumstance; each emotion. That he grips his reader san gratuitous violence and sex, multiple plot twists, or grapic language is a tribute to his abilities. There is romance, there are debacles, there are twists of thought, and there is language, but all are subtle, precise, palatable, and genuine.

"St Patrick's Bed" is a love song to rituals past and present; to memories enjoyed or endured; to choices desired or willed. It chants of love in all it's forms, and the music sings to each reader's soul.It is a gift to you.I would advice splurging!

Heartwarming
Though only the stepfather, Leo Nolan deeply cares about his wife's son, Adam, a twenty-one years old University of Toronto English major, as if he sired the lad.Unexpectedly, Adam articulates the need to meet his biological father who abandoned his pregnant mother before the lad was born.

Not wanting Adam hurt Leo seeks out his stepson's biological father in order to make sure he is a decent person.While conducting his search, Leo thinks back on his relations with his father, his Grandfather, and his Uncle.

The sequel to SHADOW OF ASHLAND, ST. PATRICK'S BED, is a poignant look at the relationships in modern day extended families.The story line engages the reader because the characters feel so real and most people are either part of or at least know a rapport identical to that shared between Adam and Leo even though the duo do not share genes.The noble Leo who ultimately keeps the novel fresh and from turning too maudlin as his trips back down memory lane constantly shakes up the prime theme with solid subplots.Has written an exultant relationship drama that fans of contemporary tales will enjoy.

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Terence M(ichael) Green, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 1769 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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A diverse and surprising collection of crime fiction stories with elements of science fiction, fantasy and horror. Writers include: Spider Robinson,, Terence Green, Tanya Huff, Andrew Weiner, and more. ... Read more

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Term paper due tomorrow? Need to bone up for a test? Or just looking for the best information about a favorite literary figure?

Turn to "Dictionary of Literary Biography" for the finest literature reference material. Brought to you by the Gale Group--the world's leading source of reference information--this e-doc contains a biographical essay written by a noted literary expert as well as extensive primary and secondary bibliographies. ... Read more

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Green returns to the history of his own family with the prequel to his critically acclaimed Shadow of Ashland. This is the story of Martin Radey, Greens grandfather. Radey, the child of Irish immigrant parents in late nineteenth-century Canada, lived most of his life in Toronto, for years a single parent after the death of his young wife. But this is his story beginning at the moment of his death, drifting backward and starting again from his early life, a search for meaning in a welter of change and occasional tragedy. ... Read more

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This is a fine story..
This is one of those rare books you're really glad you bought because it's worth reading twice.Buy this book! Definately one of the best I've read in a long time.This is what great storytelling is all about.

A gourmet feast for the famished reader.
Terrance M. Green has delivered a crisp, profound, articulate and genuine look at life's journey.Through Martin Radey we learn of youthful mistakes, missed opportunities, and painful choices that hauntunto death,but are buoyed by the promise of redemption and second chances.Upon hisdeath, he surveys his life and the life of his family, and the look isinsightful, sometimes painful, always real and recognizable.Mr. Green hasa writing style thatflows in it's unique cadence, drawing his reader inat first sentence.Though short in page, his book is long in quality,style and substance.Itmust be read morsel by morsel and not devoured,as the reader's appetite is appeased by succulent descriptions and zestfulwords. Dessert is thetruths realized in the story. In short, " AWitness to Life" is a gourmet feast.Bon Appetite!!

Evocative, and beautifully written
It's hard when a book is set in the town you grew up in to know whether you are reacting to the book on its own merits or simply because all the familiar places have a special resonance for you. But I think anyone wouldenjoy this terrific book, even if they've never been to Toronto. Greene'scharacters will keep you glued to the page. ... Read more

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A collection of stories, compiled by a World Fantasy Award-winning anthologist and a Canadian scholar, displays the talents of William Gibson, Charles de Lint, Spider Robinson, and many other Canadian fantasy writers, and includes introductory essays and notes. ... Read more

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Canadian SF? Who knew?
This is a great collection of science fiction stories by Canadians, many of whom you will recognize as pioneers in the genre. The stories are entertaining and original, and the introduction is fun and educational. ... Read more