The Shelf Inflicted staff is made up of a group of friends who met on Goodreads and forged an unholy alliance. Shelf Inflicted is our doomsday machine with which we intend to take over the world (of book reviewing)!. Also, we wouldn't mind rolling around naked in piles of cash generated by the blog at some point but none of us are really sure how to accomplish that.


Arbie Roo: A dark, mysterious figure, cloaked in dark mysterious shadows, hidden in dark mysterious spaces. Sometimes he looks like a hedgehog wearing a sombrero wearing a sombrero. He'd like to give a special shout-out to Flagon the Dragon.
Brandon: Although Brandon has competed for National Beardsman Award for Canadian Beard of the Year every year since he was six, he has yet to win. He's considering allowing his pet T-rex to shave him, but in the meantime is experimenting with glitter in his beard to garner more attention. He can also be found toiling away at Every Read Thing.
Carol: really not a queen, a ginger, or into drama but she is bossy, eats ginger and likes reading with drama. When not preparing for the zombie apocalypse by stockpiling medical supplies, she's reviewing at book reviews forevermore. She once attended a Grateful Dead concert in San Francisco, so she might be a hippie.
Dan: He's dangerous. He doesn't look like a spider, but he'll weave a web of deception so sophisticated, he might as well be. Photographer extraordinaire, you can find his work at Dantastic Photos When his eye is not behind the camera, his face is in a book and you can seek him out on Dangerous Dan's Book Blog. Dan, along with his partner in crime, Kemper, can often be found frequenting mystery writer conventions and strip joints.
James is actually the only one who would provide a real photo. Unfortunately, this is how he looked before joining the U.S. Witness Protection Program. Currently in disguise as one of Stephanie's hippie friends, he is never seen without beard, ponytail and poncho. He's also fully committed to celebrating Cinco de Mayo all year long.
Kemper: Don't cross him. He's known as "Little Kim" among his acquaintances, and has more cats than Dr. Evil. The basement of Kemper’s Book Blog is filled with toilet paper and Scotch. That’s not because of zombies. He just likes to keep a lot of both on hand. He's also been known to imbibe copious amounts of distilled corn liquor, which has left him deranged. There is some speculation that Kemper came from a large and loving family of eleven brothers and sisters, but at an early age they were all brutally murdered by a band of hippies. Kemper then crawled out from the carnage, the only survivor, and swore that day to never feel a human emotion again besides rage...rage at hippies!
Mark Monday: the only good Monday is Mark. He has a fondness for eye-watering fashion -- and eyes.You may look for him at hypnos where he attempts to employ his mind control methods and mad methodology to book reviewing. He lives in San Francisco, so he's either a hippie or an ex-dot com millionaire.
Nancy: Even though she works as an assassin, Nancy is a romantic at heart. She can't be a hippie because she owns a gun.
Richard: Richard will probably beat out Brandon for National Beardsman Award for the Canadian Beard of the Year, even though he lives on Long Island. He is an Expendable Mudge who has been known to Muse Aloud. He's kept his mind solely so that he can speak it.

Stephanie: Despite extensive proof that she is not a hippie, rumors abound. She's actually a carnie and sells patchouli on the side.
Terry has been reading books since 12 weeks after conception. Since he hasn't yet developed enough hand-eye coordination to type his own reviews, he dictates them to a henchman.
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ReplyDeleteRICHARD -- Hi. great post. i loved SNOWPIERCER too. one note re LABELS the subgenre of SF is called Cli-Fi with hyphen for Climate Fiction shortening. see my website The Cli-Fi Report at www.cli-fi.net and RSVP let's chat. DAN in Taiwan. ----- Saturday, February 4, 2017
ReplyDeleteand to RICHARD Hi. great post. i loved SNOWPIERCER too. one note re LABELS the subgenre of SF is called Cli-Fi with hyphen for Climate Fiction shortening. see my website The Cli-Fi Report at www.cli-fi.net and RSVP let's chat. DAN in Taiwan. ----- Saturday, February 4, 2017
ReplyDelete"Cli-Fi" as a subgenre of SF gains traction Down Under
"Cli-Fi" as a subgenre of SF gains traction Down Under
While it's true that Australia, unlike the U.S. and Europe, has not had a long history in the genre of science fiction, Australia in 2017 has a thriving SF/Fantasy genre with names recognised around the world. In 2013 a trilogy by Ben Peek fantasy novel and two sequels were acquired by a major SF publisher in Britain, Tor UK. His first novel in the series, titled Immolation, was published in spring 2014. The trilogy was called "Children" and books two and three were titled Innocence and Incarnation. By the 1950s, just as the SF genre was taking off in dozens of countries in Europe and North America, it took off across Australia in 1952 with the first of many Australian SF conventions.
Today there's James Bradley and Cat Sparks writing SF, with other writers, including Ian Irvine, Alice Robinson. Joanthan Strahan, Peter Carey and dozens of otthers following in George Turner's footsteps.
There is now a new subgenre of SF that's becoming popular in Australia, and it's been dubbed Cli-Fi (for ''climate fiction''. It's not so much as a literary subgenre to compete with other literary genres, but rather a PR tool, a media term, a way for newspapers and websites to signal to readers and book reviewers that climate themes in modern novels deserve a special mention. The cli-fi expression ws created as a way for literary critics and journalists to talk about novels of the Anthropocene.
Cli-fi was not created for novelists. They don't need categories or labels for their works. Even SF novelists don't need the SF label. Genre expressions are just marketing terms, good for selling books. Cli-fi was created for literary critics, book reviewers, book editors, publicity departments, advertising directors. It is a "key word," a media attention-getter, to attract eyeballs (and readers).
SF novelists tell stories. They've been doing this for over 100 years and will continue telling stories for another 500 years.
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