Neil Shooter

I grew up in Robin Hood Country, spent some time in the sprawling metropolises (?) of London, England, and Toronto, Canada, and now I've found a quiet corner of rural Ontario to put myself out to pasture in.
I'm always in search of my serenity and my muse.
I try to read, and to write, a little bit every day, so that my gears keep turning...
Some of the results can be found on Medium at medium.com/@nshooter11.
Thanks for reading!

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• Z on May 22, 2013
  
  An interesting idea, and an interesting character in Z. This 16 page short story would benefit from a better translation (there were numerous translation errors).
  
• Red Desert - Back Home on Oct. 07, 2017
  
  The four Red Desert stories really need to be read one after the other. I enjoyed this one, book four, so much more simply because I had also just finished reading book three. The story was good, but I remember being so utterly caught up in books one and two. The translation was as good as the first two books also, and much better than the translation of book three. There is a lot of hopping around in time. Well, this kind of thing happens throughout the series, but it is more pronounced here, because some of the scenes are from the very end, and some are from the very beginning of the narrative, from before they even went to Mars, so that the contrast is sometimes jarring. I'd really like to reread the whole series with the scenes rearranged in chronological order (which is also something I had wanted from Lost, the TV show). The ending didn't quite work for me. Perhaps because it wrapped things up slowly, while also setting up a future story. There wasn't the tight or dramatic ending like the other three books had had. But, denouement. I get it. I just remember how much I loved, dreamed, and breathed, the first two books in this series, and I just *didn't* the last two. Still, I did enjoy the story as a whole, and I am interested in seeing what the universe holds in store, with Aurora.
  
• Conditional Voluntary on Nov. 27, 2017
  
  Patrick Coyne wakes up in a strange place, and with a sinking feeling realizes he is in the psych ward. This is a sympathetic and straightforward look at mental illness. I didn't like the shifting point of view. The writing was a bit stilted, but quite detailed. I found that even though the writing style didn't agree with me I felt a connection to Patrick and wanted to know what happened to him in the end. That end turned out to be rather sad, and a little disappointing, but quite fitting. And entirely realistic.