James Victor Jordan is the Author of the new book, The Speed of Life An Illustrated Novel, praised by T.C.Boyle, Kip Thorne and Tom Holland.
Stephen Hawking provides the forward to Kip Thorne's Black Holes and Time Warps reviewed by James Victor Jordan
Dr. Thorne was a winner of the 2017 Noble Prize in physics, a winner of the 2016 Special Breakthrough Prize in Physics, the Albert Einstein Medal in 2009 from the Albert…
Months and Seasons by Christopher Meeks, reviewed by James Victor Jordan
MONTHS AND SEASONS— is a short story collection that reveals its author, Christopher Meeks to be a superior writer and contemporary master of literary fiction. He is a keen observer of…
Author Christopher Meeks provides a guest blog discussing his writing history
From my blogsite, a woman named Robin recently wrote me and said, “I want to do my dream: write fiction. I have to work full time to be able to live…
The Queen of Sheba from The Speed Of Life by James Victor Jordan
In the early 1990s, most of the indigenous Jews still living in Ethiopia were expelled, forced to become refuges in The Sudan, where they came to suffer from exposure to the…
Tapestry of an Ethiopian Rabbi Blowing a Shofar
The Falashas, Beta Israel, the Jews of Ethiopia Genocide is a motif in The Speed of Life In one of its 1948 charters, the United Nations defined genocide to include (in…
Dante's Inferno relating to the struggles in life in the blog by James Victor Jordan
Used as an adjective, “novel” means original or striking in conception or style: strange, unusual. Or more simply, quoting Ron Carlson addressing a writing workshop I attended at Kenyon College, novel…
Exploding Star from The Speed of Life An Illustrated Novel by James Victor Jordan
I always wanted to write that word—Stardate—at least since back in my undergraduate days when I’d watch Star Trek (the original series) reruns, imagining myself on the flight deck of the…